Responsibility Quotes

"Any astronaut can tell you you've got to do everything you can to learn about your life support system and then do everything you can to take care of it."

Sylvia Earle

"The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some good."

"So long as the millions live in hunger and ignorance, I hold every man a traitor, who, having been educated at their expense, pays not the least heed to them."

"The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in."

James Baldwin

"Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another."

"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral."

Paulo Freire

"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."

Jane Goodall

"The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it."

Robert Swan

"Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life."

James Cromwell

"Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing."

John Stuart Mill

"Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people."

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Responsibility is the price of greatness."

"The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs."

Joan Didion

"Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility."

Sigmund Freud

"If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else."

Toni Morrison

"The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing responsibility."

Wendell Berry

"Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other."

Elie Wiesel

"My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right."

Carl Schurz

"Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility."

Richard Aldington

"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."

"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."

"Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it."

Martha Gellhorn

"The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not."

Dr. Seuss

"Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves."

Elbert Hubbard