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

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

Many people say that this is not an easy issue, we cannot just say that this is how it is, it’s not black and white. But I say that this is black and white. Either we stop the emissions or we don’t. There are no gray areas when it comes to survival.

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.

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

Many people listen to what I have to say and I appear a lot in media, so therefore I influence a lot of people and therefore I have a bigger responsibility because I have a bigger platform.

Mission presidents hold keys of responsibility for the welfare, safety, and success of their missionaries.

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.

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it’s about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it’s less than one ton. It’s an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero.

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.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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.

The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.

Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill.

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog, but I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.

Commitment is an act, not a word.

The main message we want to get out there is that climate change is caused by the rotten economic system.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

At Virgin, we have always backed the power of the entrepreneur and inventor to find solutions to tricky problems. Why should climate change and the battle against carbon be any different?

It felt like I was the only one who cared about the climate and the ecological crisis. My parents didn’t care about it, my classmates didn’t care about it, my relatives didn’t care about this. I mean nobody I knew cared about this and I felt like I was the only one.

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.

I can tell you this: If I’m ever in a position to call the shots, I’m not going to rush to send somebody else’s kids into a war.

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

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.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

Even if producing CO2 was good for the environment, given that we’re going to run out of hydrocarbons, we need to find some sustainable means of operating.

With Benghazi, I don’t see anyone saying, ‚Hey look, I am overall responsible for this and therefore, I take responsibility for what happened. It’s my fault.‘ I haven’t heard that yet. Meanwhile, the other side of the coin, the Osama bin Laden raid, it seems everyone made that decision, and that’s just unbelievable to me.

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

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

The threat to the planet is us. It’s actually not a threat to the planet – it’s a threat to us.

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.

There is a heavy emphasis in Mormonism on initiative, on responsibility, on a work ethic, and on education. If you take those elements together with a free-enterprise system, you’ve got the chemistry for a lot of industry.

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

As you heat the planet up, it’s just like boiling a pot.

For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.

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

In 1961, the United States began chemical warfare in Vietnam, South Vietnam, chemical warfare to destroy crops and livestock. That went on for seven years. The level of poison – they used the most extreme carcinogen known: dioxin. And this went on for years.

I think it is a good thing to buy less and choose well – it’s good for the environment and to be fair it’s also good for me because my clothes are quite expensive.

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.

When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.

If you want to cut your own throat, don’t come to me for a bandage.

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.

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

Nothing is being done to stop the climate and ecological emergency from happening and to secure the future wellbeing for future generations.

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.

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.

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 will have to leave this planet, and we’re going to leave it, and it’s going to make this planet better.

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

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

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.

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that… it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

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

The shift to a cleaner energy economy wont happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way. But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact.