Quotes about Responsibility
The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.
— Dante Alighieri
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
— Edmund Burke
The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.
— CS Lewis
And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to do another and harder and better one.
— CS Lewis
I ask everyone with political responsibility to remember two things: human dignity and the common good.
— Pope Francis
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Because God loves us, he gives us the freedom to make choices. That's good news if we choose wisely. But it also gives us the capacity to sin.
— Craig Groeschel
Politics, according to the Social Doctrine of the Church, is one of the highest forms of charity, because it serves the common good. I cannot wash my hands, eh? We all have to give something!
— Pope Francis
For Christians, faith is a precious good, the most valuable personal and social resource. When it is left untapped, the common good suffers - not just the particular interests of Christians.
— Miroslav Volf
Unless we lay our course in accordance with this principle, the great power for good in the world with which we have been intrusted by a Divine Providence will be turned to a power for evil.
— Calvin Coolidge
Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant.
— Desmond Tutu