When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame.

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?

The old-fashioned idea is that responsibility falls upon those who borrow and lend. Money was not borrowed by campesinos, assembly plant workers, or slum-dwellers. The mass of the population gained little from borrowing, indeed often suffered grievously from its effects.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.

I’m responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.

When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you’ve got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I’m not sure any country, either the United States or I don’t hear of anyone else, who’s willing to take on that responsibility.

When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

I had never been in charge of anything. I’d always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I’d never been in charge of an organization.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

Always do everything you ask of those you command.

The other day the President said, I know you’ve had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

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

I love Los Angeles, and it’s been very good to me, but if everyone is running around telling the stories, who’s living them? You don’t play characters that are celebrities – you play guys who know what to do when their septic tank’s blocked.

I think if someone gets kicked in the face it is their fault – they watched the foot come towards their face.

Our DNA is as a consumer company – for that individual customer who’s voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That’s who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it’s not up to par, it’s our fault, plain and simply.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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 know I have a responsibility to the fans.

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

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.

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

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

I said that America’s role would be limited; that we would not put ground troops into Libya; that we would focus our unique capabilities on the front end of the operation, and that we would transfer responsibility to our allies and partners.

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.

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.

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.

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.

I remember I was flying home to Los Angeles one day. I was talking to the woman next to me and the flight attendant tried to tell me I was sitting next to somebody that I should know. I didn’t recognize her but it ended up being Beyonce’s sister, Solange Knowles.

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you’re held responsible for everything, but you don’t always have control of everything, right?

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

A President’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation.

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it.

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

Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast.

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

I think my message to the politicians who have within their power the ability to make change is, ‚Do you really, really not care about the future of your great-grandchildren? Because if we let the world continue to be destroyed the way we are now, what’s the world going to be like for your great-grandchildren?‘

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

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

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

When it comes to the qualifications that we should demand of our president, to start with, we need someone who will take the job seriously.

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.

As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else’s, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids.

Duty cannot exist without faith.

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

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other’s welfare, social justice can never be attained.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I’m the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

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.