Quotes with responsibility-takers

Quotes 161 till 180 of 214.

  • Carl Bernstein The reality is that the media are probably the most powerful of all our institutions today and they, or rather we, too often are squandering our power and ignoring our obligations. The consequence of our abdication of responsibility is the ugly spectacle of idiot culture!
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • James Baldwin The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Vaclav Havel The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • John Lennon The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • Anna Lindh The United Nations remains our most important global actor. These days we are continuously reminded of the enormous responsibility of the Security Council to uphold international peace and stability.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
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  • Richard Bach The way to avoid responsibility is to say, ''I've got responsibilities.''
    Richard Bach
    American author (1936 - )
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  • Joan Didion The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Denis Waitley There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Bill Kurtis There's something magical about putting yourself into life. You've got to stand up and take responsibility for your own life and you cannot abandon that.
    Bill Kurtis
    American television journalist (1940 - )
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  • Arthur Henderson Those nations have a very great responsibility at this juncture of the world's affairs, for by throwing their joint weight into the scales of history on the right side, they may tip the balance decisively in favour of peace.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Malcolm Forbes Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.
    Malcolm Forbes
    American businessman and publisher (Forbes Magazine) (1919 - 1990)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Thus will the fondest dream of Phallic science be realized: a pristine new planet populated entirely by little boy clones of great scientific entrepreneurs free to smash atoms, accelerate particles, or, if they are so moved, build pyramids - without any social relevance or human responsibility at all.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Abbie M. Dale To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.
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  • Alan Paton To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
    Alan Paton
    South African author and anti-apartheid activist (1903 - 1988)
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  • Barbara Grizzuti Harrison True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
    Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
    American journalist, essayist and memoirist (1934 - 2002)
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  • Carrie P. Meek Until we all start to take responsibility, until we do all we can to improve the character of our communities, we'll never break the cycle of violence and indifference.
    Carrie P. Meek
    American politician (1926 - )
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  • Anne Sullivan Macy We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful.
    Anne Sullivan Macy
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • George Bernard Shaw We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bob Filner We as a Congress have a moral obligation to bring justice to the families of these victims. Furthermore, as a society based on laws, we have a responsibility to ensure that criminals don't go unpunished.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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