Responsibility Quotes - Page 9

Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them.

She found herself wondering at what point in her life she had ceased to be Gulliver and had become the strings holding him to the ground.

We owe our children – the most vulnerable citizens in any society – a life free from violence and fear.

In my generation, there was a single girl given the strength and skill to fight the spread of darkness...but in your generation, there are nearly two thousand with the powers of the slayer, and not all of them have chosen to use their newfound abilities conscientiously.

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable - the art of the next best

Panem et Circenses translates into 'Bread and Circuses.' The writer was saying that in return for full bellies and entertainment, his people had given up their political responsibilities and therefore their power.

Powerlessness implies inactivity, like an appliance that is not plugged into its electrical current. Empowerment is about plugging into responsible choices and then acting upon them to your fullest capacity.

Things are as they should be at this moment. When you accept that, you become responsible for everything you have and are. You then hold the power to change your future!

Power is responsibility. Don't take advantage. Respect.

It is the responsibility of scientists never to suppress knowledge, no matter how awkward that knowledge is, no matter how it may bother those in power; we are not smart enough to decide which pieces of knowledge are permissible, and which are not. …

Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.

Our shoes carry our body, so we polish them; our body carries our soul, so we clean the body, but, what about our soul”?

There are some debts that can't be paid with money.

It takes a great deal of courage to stand alone even if you believe in something very strongly.

It's none of your concern what others say or think about you. Your happiness is your own responsibility.

When you cannot find a pill for it, try taking a full dosage of responsibility

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

Unless society came out past Flat Rock Crossroads, kept on past Booker T. High School, hung two rights, a left, turned in on Milk Farm Road and found Roland plowing a tobacco field, jerked him off the tractor, warped him and set him back up there without anybody riding by and noticing, blame can't be laid on society.

[F]rom now on, the act of creating and circulating evidence of wrongdoing to more than a few people, even if they all work together, will be seen as a delayed but public act.

Man was the last of Creation but was given the duty to care for the Earth and all other created living creatures.