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.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

It’s not that every single thing that happens on Facebook is gonna be good. This is humanity. People use tools for good and bad, but I think that we have a clear responsibility to make sure that the good is amplified and to do everything we can to mitigate the bad.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else’s, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids.

The buck stops here!

Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you’d would wake up times and hope that the next day you’d be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life’s possibilities.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who’ll get the blame.

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.

Defending peace is the duty of all.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

There’s a big difference, as I’m sure you know, it’s a slightly manneristic one, between people of the ’60s and people of ’68. Being a soixante-huitard – it’s so nice to have a French word for it – is very different from just having happened to been a baby boomer in the ’60s.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

What’s important for my daughter to know is that… if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.

Some say we should not engage in activism. Instead we should leave everything to our politicians and just vote for a change instead. But what do we do when there is no political will? What do we do when the politics needed are nowhere in sight?

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

I am not deeply involved in Australian politics but I know there are prime ministers, governments around the world who are not acting responsibly in relation to climate change.

I don’t want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?

No, we don’t own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.

Some people say that the climate crisis is something that we will have created, but that is not true, because if everyone is guilty then no one is to blame. And someone is to blame.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

There’s a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

We all have the duty to do good.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Sabotage did not involve loss of life, and it offered the best hope for future race relations. Bitterness would be kept to a minimum and, if the policy bore fruit, democratic government could become a reality.

A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don’t understand why it’s the government’s responsibility.

The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

In the ’60s and ’70s and early ’80s, the trainers would grind you, and eventually they would break something – they would break an ankle in ways that it would heal. It was just the way of the business, to ensure that you learned respect for wrestling.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

I don’t mind living in a man’s world as long as I can be a woman in it.

I hate letting my teammates down. I know I’m not going to make every shot. Sometimes I try to make the right play, and if it results in a loss, I feel awful. I don’t feel awful because I have to answer questions about it. I feel awful in that locker room because I could have done something more to help my teammates win.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

The book, ’12 Rules For Life,‘ is a very serious book. There’s elements of humor in it, but I’m trying to struggle with things at the deepest possible level and to explain to people why it’s necessary to live a upstanding and noble and moral and truthful and responsible life, and why there’s hell to pay if you don’t do that.

An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.