Responsibility Quotes

"The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him." "People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do" "The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best" "It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong" "Policies are judged by their consequences, but crusades are judged by how good they make the crusaders feel" "He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else" "We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers" "The more we take, the less there is for future generations" "The more powerful you are, the more your behavior changes the rules." "We are defined not only by what we create but what we refuse to destroy." "We must start acting today to preserve tomorrow" "I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else'" "When I win and when I lose, I take ownership of it, because I really am in charge of what I do." "A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him" "Public policy can help, but there is no government that can fix these problems for us." "The office of the sovereign, be it a monarch or an assembly, consisteth in the end for which he was entrusted with the sovereign power, namely the procuration of the safety of the people." "We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it." "I want to be part of the solution not part of the problem " "Promises are like crying babies in a theater they should be carried out at once" "Cushioning the world with pity does not explain how one plans to have it work"