Take Any People

“You cannot take any people, of any color, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization - including work, behavioral standards, personal responsibility, and all the other basic things that the clever intelligentsia disdain - without ruinous consequences to them and to society at large.”
--Thomas Sowell

Moral Responsibility

"One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws."
--Martin Luther King, Jr.

Liberty's Responsibility

“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”
--George Bernard Shaw

Parasitic Thinking

“Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.”
--Ayn Rand

Your Choices, Your Responsibility

“In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.”
--Eleanor Roosevelt

Ethical Responsibility

“Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility with regard to everything that has life.”
--Albert Schweitzer

Personal Responsibility

“Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment and learn again to exercise his will -- his personal responsibility.”
--Albert Schweitzer

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Power and Privilege

“Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.”
--Peter F. Drucker

Decorum

“When you're wrong, admit it. When you're right, shut up.”
--Ogden Nash

Responsibility

“A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than supposed.”
--William James

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Read The Writing

“Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else.”
--Ivern Ball

Diligent Dreaming

“We should see dreaming as one of our responsibilities rather than an alternative to one.”
--Mary Engelbreit

Joy in Execution

“Joy is best found not in the pursuit of pleasure, but in the execution of responsibility.”
--Thomas Vander Woude

An Eager Hunger

“If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.”
--Les Brown