Every guilty person is his own hangman.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

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

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it’s just the thing that every man wants – to have a son and heir.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

How does a nice Catholic girl end up going to prison for a year? It’s crazy. I’ve made mistakes. I have to pay for those mistakes.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

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

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

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

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

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

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

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.

I often say to people that producing is the best-paid form of cowardice. When you produce things, you almost always get credit if it’s a good record, but you hardly ever get the blame if it’s not! You don’t really take responsibility for your work.

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

The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew’s cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo’s choice to know the truth. It’s a beautiful, beautiful story.

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

I know I have a responsibility to the fans.

Every action has a consequence. It may be good for strengthening. And I have no doubt that lifting a lot of weights can get you stronger. I just don’t know if lifting stronger weights can keep you healthy, or it can keep you doing your job better, especially for a pro athlete.

Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn’t even know you’d done.

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That’s not a guess, it’s a guarantee. With pride, it’s not a matter of ‚if‘ we will fall, but ‚when.‘ There are no exceptions.

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.

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

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

At Real, psychological pressure on the players is much more serious than at United. This is good. At many clubs, you don’t know the consequence of playing badly.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

Being president isn’t anything like reality TV. It’s not about sending insulting tweets or making fiery speeches; it’s about whether or not the candidate can handle the awesome responsibility of leading this country.

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

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.

I’m always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect.

Commitment is an act, not a word.

To some extent I happily don’t know what I’m doing. I feel that it’s an artist’s responsibility to trust that.

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

I bought a gun and chose drugs instead.

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

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

The Scoutmaster who is a hero to his boys holds a powerful lever to their development but at the same time brings a great responsibility on himself. They are quick enough to see the smallest characteristic about him, whether it be a virtue or a vice.

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

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

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

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.

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

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

We all have the duty to do good.

I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

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.

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

After you finish a book, you know, you’re dead. But no one knows you’re dead. All they see is the irresponsibility that comes in after the terrible responsibility of writing.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.