Responsibility Quotes

• What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Responsibility

• I think every role you take on, you should take on the responsibility of doing the best representation of that person or that character or that role. When it is a human being that has actually existed, and it is a person that people know of, yeah, you feel an even more amount of pressure to do a good job.

  

  Luke Evans
  • People
  • Good
  • Character

• The responsibility of an artist is to be honest with themselves.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Responsibility
  • Artist

• The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explore the fundamental notion of giving up responsibility to an outside power.

  

  Katherine Dunn
  • Up
  • Power
  • Giving

• Deciding whether to confirm a president's nominee for the highest court in the land is a responsibility I take very seriously.

  

  Bill Nelson
  • Responsibility

• Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government.

  

  Garet Garrett
  • People
  • Government
  • Responsibility

• If you are charged with this responsibility of enhancing interrogations, or using soldiers to enhance interrogations to find Saddam, and you're above the law for all practical purposes, you might try some unusual techniques. Now we know that, in fact, they did.

  

  Janis Karpinski
  • Law
  • Responsibility

• I knew as a kid that every decision I was going to be making, I would have full responsibility. So I knew I had to do what's right and protect myself, you know?

  

  Antonio Brown
  • Responsibility
  • Decision

• Basically I am a private individual who has concerns about his country and who has resources that give me the privilege - and responsibility - to do something to help my country if I can.

  

  Richard Scaife
  • Country
  • Responsibility
  • Basically

• I was always cycling for my dad. Then the coaches got bigger, and my results got better. Suddenly, the responsibility grows, and I'm doing it for somebody else, I'm doing it for a programme; I'm doing it for the country. I'm doing it for, like, everybody.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Country
  • Dad
  • Better

• We're professional athletes. People know who we are, and if there's some way we can help with a friend or someone in need, that's a responsibility we have. I really strongly believe that.

  

  Bobby Orr
  • People
  • Believe
  • Help

• The fundamental problem is not that there are limits on voicing different opinions here. The problem is that the whole society is dying through lack of responsibility or involvement.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Different
  • Society
  • Dying

• I love making music but with that comes a lot of responsibility and you have to put yourself out there more. I'm learning as I go. The music has drawn me out of my shell. It's made me open my door a little more and be able to look at people in the eye. In that sense of the word, it has been helpful to me so I am happy now.

  

  Daniel Powter
  • People
  • Eye
  • Helpful

• I don't consider myself an entertainer. I consider myself an artist, and I think with that comes responsibility.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • Responsibility

• Because democratic institutions do not renew themselves as effortlessly as flowering trees, they demand the ceaseless tinkering of people who possess both the courage and the honesty to admit their mistakes and accept responsibility for even the most inglorious acts.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • People
  • Mistake
  • Courage

• I believe that presidential candidates actually have a responsibility to point out substantive differences: to point out perspectives that are different.

  

  John Edwards
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Presidential

• I had my daughter, and with that came a deep sense of responsibility; my time for work had become precious, and it had to have more meaning.

  

  Phoebe Philo
  • Time
  • Work
  • Deep

• Despair is a cop-out, the ultimate abdication of all responsibility, in which people feel justified in their feelings of impotence. But if, on the other hand, you feel that your work in the world does make a difference and that you do have the power to change things, the nay-sayers will turn a deaf ear.

  

  Marilyn Ferguson
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• In philosophy, you have to reckon with the implicit level of an accumulated reserve, and thus with a very great number of relays, with the shared responsibility of these relays.

  

  Jacques Derrida
  • Great
  • Responsibility

• And we believe in democracy - that the only real source of legitimacy is the consent of the people; that every individual is born equal with fundamental rights, inalienable rights, and that it is the responsibility of governments to uphold these rights.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Believe
  • Real

• Any actor worth his salt has a responsibility to reinvent himself from part to part.

  

  Matt Smith Poison
  • Responsibility

• Sustainability is not just about adopting the latest energy-efficient technologies or turning to renewable sources of power. Sustainability is the responsibility of every individual every day. It is about changing our behaviour and mindset to reduce power and water consumption, thereby helping to control emissions and pollution levels.

  

  Joe Kaeser
  • Power
  • Energy
  • Control

• I have a responsibility as an elected governor to govern and when I say govern, that means to make sure that our citizens are safe and we need the federal government to step up and do their job. They need to secure our borders.

  

  Jan Brewer
  • Up
  • Job
  • Responsibility

• Thought is just not something objective in our heads. Thought is power – real, objective power. Moreover, the thoughts we create have a life of their own. They have a kind of material reality that affects other people for good or ill – hence our responsibility to chose.

  

  Annie Besant
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

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