Responsibility Quotes

"Humans were always far better at inventing tools than using them wisely" "I don't want to feel like I've worked this hard and went away from my family just to do something selfish." "Our ideals, laws, and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources." "The trouble is that once you see it, you can't unsee it. And once you've seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out." "A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself" "Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut" "Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives." "Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power." "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world." "A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury." "The world is not ours to keep. We hold it in trust for future generations" "The way we care for the earth is mirrored in the way we care for each other." "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction." "Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." "The function of freedom is to free someone else" "How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours" "We must take care of our families, wherever we find them" "99% of failures come from people who make excuses." "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" "Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little"