The old-fashioned idea is that responsibility falls upon those who borrow and lend. Money was not borrowed by campesinos, assembly plant workers, or slum-dwellers. The mass of the population gained little from borrowing, indeed often suffered grievously from its effects.

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‚least advanced‘ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.

It is my responsibility that I must make demonstrative efforts to reach out to every citizen of the country.

The spirit of America has nurtured responsibility and community unlike any other country.

It’s difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn’t available.

I had never been in charge of anything. I’d always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I’d never been in charge of an organization.

The government’s job is good governance for everybody. My government will make policies; if you fit into it, come on board, or stay where you are. My job is not to spoon-feed anyone.

A President’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day. I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest. When I didn’t collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.

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

There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

If you’re low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn’t seem entirely fair.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it’s a subject below their social standing.

I understood that with the swipe of my pen as a prosecutor, I would have the decision in my pen to make a decision about someone’s life.

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone’s guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.

The solar system can support a trillion humans. And then we’d have a thousand Mozarts and a thousand Einsteins.

The literature associating inequality with social instability and poor health outcomes is pretty convincing.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

Ultimately this issue is on us. We’re the ones who make the decisions about what our kids eat.

Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‚Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?‘ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.

The main message of Climate Revolution is that climate change is caused by the rotten financial system we’ve got, designed to create poverty and rip off any profits for a small amount of rich people. Meanwhile, it destroys the earth.

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

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

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn’t know it had a name.

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

I’m responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

Infinites, when considered absolutely without any restriction or limitation, are neither equal nor unequal, nor have any certain proportion one to another, and therefore, the principle that all infinites are equal is a precarious one.

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

If I had been white with the things I did, they never would have allowed me to get out of baseball.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.

We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.

The trouble ain’t that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain’t distributed right.

We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.

Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.

My momma didn’t clean up floors so I could be a thug… so I could wear my pants down.

Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?

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.

When you’re in a leadership role, you can never please all of the people all of the time. There’s also a lot of responsibility that goes along with it that others may not realize.

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

Reparations – not just aid – should be provided by those responsible for devastating Iraqi civilian society by cruel sanctions and military actions, and – together with other criminal states – for supporting Saddam Hussein through his worst atrocities and beyond. That is the minimum that honesty requires.