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

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

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

I know I have a responsibility to the fans.

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

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.

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years.

Frankly, I think that the news industry is critically important because it points out things and surfaces truths that can often be uncomfortable. I think that that’s working, and the spotlight has been pointed on things that we have a responsibility to do better, and I accept that.

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

In the studio, we adhere to a strict colour code. Developed over decades, the colour code consists of a finite and precise colour palate… The whole world as we experience it comes to us through the mystic realm of colour.

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.

I just think people should invest in the world. Don’t invest in fashion, but invest in the world.

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 lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

Violence has been Nicaragua’s most important export to the world.

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.

I am in the world feeling my way to light ‚amid the encircling gloom.‘

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

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

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

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

I am worrying about my country. I feel I have a responsibility as a novelist to do something.

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.

The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers.

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate… we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

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

Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

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

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

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

Often one postulates that a priori, all states are equally probable. This is not true in the world as we see it. This world is not correctly described by the physics which assumes this postulate.

The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.

Your success, or lack of success, is your responsibility. Even when you have a chain of command that you don’t like as well, its your responsibility to work with the up chain of command.

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

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.

There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.

The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.

My most important projects have been the building and maintaining of schools and medical clinics for my dear friends in the Himalaya and helping restore their beautiful monasteries, too.

For ninety per cent of those who view him from outside, the Christian God looks like a great landowner administering his estates, the world. Now this conventional picture, which is too well justified by appearances, corresponds in no way to the dogmatic basis or point of view of the Gospels.

In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying.

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

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.

We all have the duty to do good.

‚Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

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

Initiative is doing the right things without being told.

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