Responsibility Quotes
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Democracy is our most valuable possession. Upholding it is our duty and our responsibility. This means a continuous, decisive and self-confident argument; it means effort and endeavor to reach compromise and long-lasting consensus. These form the cornerstones of the only form of political system that can guarantee freedom.
 Wolfgang Thierse
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The responsibility of leadership is not to come up with all the ideas but to create an environment in which great ideas can thrive.
 Simon Sinek
					 
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I live in an ecotone. Employment must coexist with goofing off. Responsibility must coexist with irresponsibility.
 Benjamin Alire Saenz
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No matter how dark it gets, we must remember we are the light and we have a responsibility to create in these times. It’s time to level up! We have to embrace what we have. We are all in this together, as a group and in the world. Whatever happens we are gonna come back stronger. We owe it to ourselves and the world.
 Carmit Bachar
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When people have hearing loss, I think they often take that burden and pass it on to their friends and family, and we make them scream and yell at us so we can hear! But I think it's better to take responsibility and wear hearing aids!
 Norm Crosby
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We live in such extreme times that I think we all have a responsibility to be aware of what's happening and talk about it.
 Ezra Koenig
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I'm not sure I understand how responsibility for our choices makes sense if they are not determined.
 Thomas Nagel
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My sense of responsibility to the audience is to screen things that they would never see in a local theater.
 Richard Wilson
					 
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There cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard. There cannot be true democracy unless women are given the opportunity to take responsibility for their own lives.
 Hillary Clinton
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It is the responsibility of those of us involved in today's biomedical research enterprise to translate the remarkable scientific innovations we are witnessing into health gains for the nation. At no other time has the need for a robust, bidirectional information flow between basic and translational scientists been so necessary.
 Elias Zerhouni
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Before the Iraq war I was quite disturbed by some of the neoconservatives, who were saying things like, "What is the point of being a superpower if you can't do such-and-such, take on these responsibilities?" The point of being a superpower is that people will leave you alone.
 Thomas Sowell
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In the rush to become all things to all people, the federal government has lost sight of its core responsibilities. As a result we're stuck in this frustrating paradox where Washington actually neglects things it's clearly supposed to be doing, while interfering in other areas where they are neither welcome nor authorized.
 Rick Perry
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In dreams begins responsibility.
 William Butler Yeats
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If we empower ourselves with responsibility over our actions, responsibility over our destinies and responsibility for directing and maintaining and creating our own ethical and moral frameworks, which is the most important thing really isn’t it because perhaps the greatest insult to humanism is this idea that mankind needs a god in order to have a moral framework.
 Stephen Fry
					 
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We cannot restore integrity and morality to our society until each of us-singly and individually-takes responsibility for our actions.
 Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Our generation has the ability and the responsibility to make our ever-more connected world a more hopeful, stable and peaceful place.
 Natalie Portman
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Give someone responsibility and they will do their best. Make them accountable and they will do even better.
 Simon Sinek
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Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and to whom we bear sacred responsibility. We must do what America does best: offer more opportunity to all and demand responsibility from all.
 Bill Clinton
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Anyone who has actually had to take responsibility for consequences by running any kind of enterprise whether economic or academic, or even just managing a sports team is likely at some point to be chastened by either the setbacks brought on by his own mistakes or by seeing his successes followed by negative consequences that he never anticipated.
 Thomas Sowell
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He is careful to deny responsibility for September, but he does not, you notice, condemn the killings. He also refrains from killing words, sparing Roland and Buzot, as if they were beneath his notice. August 10 was illegal, he says; so too was the taking of the Bastille. What account can we take of that, in revolution? It is the nature of revolutions to break laws. We are not justices of the peace; we are legislators to a new world.
 Hilary Mantel
					 
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The outlines of a responsibility began to take hold: I have to talk about them like they’re people, not news stories.
 Negin Farsad
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You see, without hard work and responsibility, there is no American Dream. Hard work lays the foundation. Our solidarity makes work pay - for all of us. For the greater good. That's what our vision of shared prosperity is all about.
 Richard Trumka
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Faith is not a refuge from reality. It is a demand that we face reality ... The true subject matter of religion is not our own little souls, but the Eternal God and His whole mysterious purpose, and our solemn responsibility to Him.
 Evelyn Underhill
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I think that all journalists, specifically print journalists, have a responsibility to educate the public. When you handle a culture's intellectual property, like journalists do, you have a responsibility not to tear it down, but to raise it up. The depiction of rap and of hip-hop culture in the media, I think, is one that needs more of a responsible approach from journalists.
 Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions