Responsible quotes
389 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. Not only are we responsible for the memories of the dead, we are responsible for what we do with those memories"
"The single raindrop never feels responsible for the flood."
"To be responsible, keep your promises to others. To be successful, keep your promises to yourself."
"Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them."
"Everything that happens to us is the result of what we ourselves have thought, said, or done.We alone are responsible for our lives."
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"Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people."
"You are responsible for the predictable consequences of your actions."
"You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say"
"Whenever one honestly defies a tradition, one becomes, in reality, the more responsible to it."
"God is, to me, pretty much a myth created over time to deny the idea that we're all responsible for our own actions."
"It's our imagination that's responsible for love, not the other person."
"You are not responsible for what your friends do, but you will be judged by the company you keep."
"We, we, and none else, are responsible for what we suffer. We are the effects, and we are the causes."
"Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves."
"It is O. K. for me to feel angry and to express it in responsible ways."
"If you can put the question, 'Am I or am I not responsible for my acts?' then you are responsible."
"You are fully responsible for everything you are, everything you have and everything you become."
"Congress is responsible for every major change in India"
"No individual rain drop ever considers itself responsible for the flood."
"Once you are my friend, I am responsible for you."
"We're all responsible for creating a polio-free world while we still can."
"A managed democracy is a wonderful thing... for the managers... and its greatest strength is a 'free press' when 'free' is defined as 'responsible' and the managers define what is 'irresponsible'."
"In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel."
"Am I mad, to see what others do not see, or are they mad who are responsible for all that I am seeing?"
"I know that philosophically a murderer is not responsible for his crime, but I prefer not to take tea with him."
