218 quotes found
“Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.”
“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.”
“I do believe that we've a responsibility to try to acknowledge the range, both geographic and graphic, of what's happening in poetry in English. I'm interested in poems that are first-rate. After t...”
“Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.”
“A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten', he does not say 'My men were beaten.'”
“Anger, and the self-righteousness that is both the cause and consequence of anger, tends to be easier on the psyche than personal responsibility.”
“There's a lot more responsibility at home, so a tour is like the opposite for me. It's like a breath of fresh air.”
“We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.”
“Wouldn't it help Americans more, in the long run, if we were forced to accept some responsibility for the environmental wreckage we prefer to assume is totally out of our control?”
“Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.”
“At its most basic the democratic contract is a simple one: the right to vote comes with a responsibility to society, through tax payments and citizenship.”
“To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.”
“Environmental pollution, terrorism, and many other global threats do not stop at borders. We all bear global responsibility and thus need a global identity to enable us to cope with them. We must l...”
“Daley may not feel a moral responsibility to eliminate discrimination but he has a legal obligation to do so.”
“Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility...”
“I want you to have this feeling too - it is my moral responsibility to help you achieve this inner freedom.”
“Responsibility is the price of freedom.”
“I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other.”
“I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out.”
“Implicit in true freedom of spirit lies a proud and virile will. Such glorious power of free will to choose, envisages beneficent social responsibility as manifest and welcome.”
