Quotes about Responsibility
We can choose the way of compassion, the way of forgiveness, the way of generosity. Or we can choose other paths and those have very real consequences in the world. This is absolutely crucial.
— Rob Bell
Forgiveness is not substitute for justice.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Consequences don't just go away. They aren't suddenly dissolved just because forgiveness has been desired or given.
— Tracie Peterson
Let the punishment match the offense.
— Cicero
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
When thee builds a prison, thee had better build with the thought ever in thy mind that thee and thy children may occupy the cells.
— Elizabeth Fry
We have freedom to do good or evil; yet to make choice of evil, is not to use, but to abuse our freedom.
— Francis de Sales
Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
— Toni Morrison
Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
If the people were to ever find out what we have done, we would be chased down the streets and lynched.
— George H. W. Bush
True freedom is not the liberty to do anything we please, but the liberty to do what we ought; and it is genuine liberty because doing what we ought now pleases us.
— DA Carson
Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.
— Martin Luther