Quotes about Responsibility

Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross.

Some attempts are still making, but they are inconsiderable in comparison of what might be done if the whole body of Christians entered heartily into the spirit of the divine command on this subject. Some think little about it, others are unacquainted with the state of the world, and others love their wealth better than the souls of their fellow-creatures.

The artist's only responsibility is his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one.... If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies.

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

The rules!" shouted Ralph, "you're breaking the rules!" "Who cares?

I'll tell you the truth and its up to you to live with it.

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.

Those who can command themselves command others.

The virtue of its Citizens is the only Support of a Republican government.

I am going to do what I think is best for the country, within my jurisdiction and power, and then let the rest take care of itself.

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar…. Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out.