Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author’s world.

Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don’t do that, we really deserve the world we get.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.

I try to lead by example, being conscious of others and being responsible.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.

I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.

Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

The world has crafted a beautiful balance of collective action – common but differentiated responsibility and respective capabilities.

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.

The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.

I’ve spent too much time giving speeches, traveling the world.

That is what fame is, isn’t it? To get the world to fall in love with you.

We came into a broken world. And we’re the cleanup crew.

Most emissions aren’t caused by individuals, they’re caused by corporations and states.

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it’s a major problem, that’s just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.

I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.

We’re going to have the best-educated American people in the world.

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

I do the dishes every night – other people volunteer, but I like the way I do it.

One of the peculiarities of Delhi is that the term ‚reform‘ is associated only with passing of laws in Parliament. In fact, the most important reforms are those needed, without new laws, at various level of the government, in work practices and procedures.

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

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.

Always do everything you ask of those you command.

We’ve persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people – a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it’s time to turn the page.

The great thing about having a bunch of kids is they just remind you that you’re the person who takes them to go poop!

The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.

Commitment is an act, not a word.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

We have to understand what the older generation has dealt to us, what mess they have created that we have to clean up and live with.

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

Don’t let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.

He incurs a fearful amount of guilt who in the least promotes the aim of the Evil One by trampling upon a tender conscience in a child.

I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I’m in a world of my own.

Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.

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

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

I have a scheme for stopping war. It’s this – no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

A lot of times, I run a thought experiment: ‚If I were not at Facebook, what would I be doing to make the world more open?‘

Those who oppose reform will also tell you that under our plan, you won’t get to choose your doctor – that some bureaucrat will choose for you. That’s also not true.

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don’t think anybody has held this job who hasn’t felt personally responsible for those being killed.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.