Responsibility Quotes

I am sure it is one’s duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one’s own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

People who can’t do that don’t get a sense of responsibility. And if you lack a sense of responsibility, you push the blame onto the system.

I grew up in a very secular home with no religion at all, so I was starting from zero.

In dreams begin responsibilitiy.

In order to grow, you must accept new responsibilities, no matter how uncertain you may feel or how unprepared you are to deal with them.

I’m totally independent. I don’t bear any responsibility to any system.

The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.

It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.

The greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.

As long as you perceive that anyone is holding you back, you have not taken full responsibility for your own liberation. Liberation means that you stand free of making demands on others and life to make you happy.