The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.

Seven hundred thousand people who have dementia in this country are not heard. I’m fortunate; I can be heard. Regrettably, it’s amazing how people listen if you stand up in public and give away $1 million for research into the disease, as I have done.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

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

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

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

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

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.

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

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don’t see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

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.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

The movement of search can only be from the known to the known, and all that the mind can do is to be aware that this movement will never uncover the unknown. Any movement on the part of the known is still within the field of the known.

Giving responsibility is the key to success with boys, especially with the rowdiest and most difficult boys.

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

What we have found in this country, and maybe we’re more aware of it now, is one problem that we’ve had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

You gotta water your plants. Nobody can water them for you.

I get really motivated when I put on the India jersey. It is a responsibility, so I want to perform in the best way I can.

When you read, I’m sure you don’t realize that your eyes are going backwards and forwards and to this place and that place. Mine don’t do that.

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

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

I have often been asked what I think about at the moment of take-off. Of course, no pilot sits and feels his pulse as he flies. He has to be part of the machine. If he thinks of anything but the task in hand, then trouble is probably just around the corner.

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

I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I’m here.

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.

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.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all – the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

Many shoulder heavy burdens of righteous responsibility which, on occasion, seem so difficult to bear. I have heard those challenges termed impossible.

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

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

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

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.

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

Some people say that I should study to become a climate scientist so that I can ‚solve the climate crisis.‘ But the climate crisis has already been solved. We already have all the facts and solutions. All we have to do is to wake up and change.

Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily… thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn’t always follow what was going on.

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

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

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.

Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn’t know it then.

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.

Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.

We’re in very bad trouble if we don’t understand the planet we’re trying to save.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

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.

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

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

If you’re a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.

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

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.

Anyone that’s involved in development has discovered that all the good work that’s been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

When I was growing up, I wanted to adopt, because I was aware there were kids that didn’t have parents.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

For way too long the politicians and people in power have got away with not doing anything at all to fight the climate crisis and ecological crisis.

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‚Oh my God, what a blessing.‘ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.