Responsibility Quotes - Page 17

• Well, part of the thing is, like, what's the difference between censorship and social responsibility? I sometimes find that the whole censorship argument is used as a way for people to avoid the fact that they're like.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Differences, People, Way

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• I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.

  Talib Kweli

  Records, Sense Of Responsibility

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• Kurt Cobain was Nirvana. He named the band, hired its members, played guitar, wrote the songs, fronted the band onstage and in interviews, and took responsibility for the band's business decisions.

  Courtney Love

  Song, Guitar, Decision

  "An open letter from the Cobain family", www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2001.

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• At one time I was a nihilistic punk with a mohican and a ring in my nose. I think in the course of time I'll find a middle ground, but I also carry that sense of responsibility. I'm in a position to defeat stereotypes.

  Michelle Shocked

  Thinking, Noses, Defeat

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• When I produce someone's record I have to remember it's their record..no matter what I bring to it..er, sometimes that's not too easy:) It is a responsibility made less easy by people I work with encouraging me to play guitar on their record...A soon as I start playing guitar on someone's record it inevitably starts to sound like me...not always a good thing.

  Robin Guthrie

  Guitar, Play, People

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• Whenever we think of ourselves as doing something for someone else, we are in some way denying our own responsibility. Whatever we do is done because we choose to do it, and we make that choice because it is the one that satisfies us the most.

  M. Scott Peck

  Thinking, Choices, Done

  M. Scott Peck (2012). “The Road Less Travelled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth”, p.104, Random House

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• Responsibility is something you take as a matter of fact, like breathing air; living without it is impossible, but do not think about it too much.

  Jacob Gelt Dekker

  Thinking, Air, Breathing

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• Why have we had such a decline in moral climate? I submit to you that a major factor has been a change in the philosophy which has been dominant, a change from belief in individual responsibility to belief in social responsibility. If you adopt the view that a man is not responsible for his own behavior, that somehow society is responsible, why should he seek to make his behavior good?

  Milton Friedman

  Philosophy, Men, Views

  Milton Friedman, William Richard Allen (1983). “Bright promises, dismal performance: an economist's protest”, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc.

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• Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

  Dalton Trumbo

  Democracy

  Dalton Trumbo (1941). “The Remarkable Andrew: The Chronicle of a Literal Man”

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• As wonderful as they were, my parents didn't teach me anything about self-discipline, concentration, patience, or focus. If I hadn't had a family myself, I probably never would've done anything. Marriage taught me responsibility.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Self, Discipline, Focus

  "What I've Learned: Dick Van Dyke" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. February 20, 2007.

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• I love the responsibility of being a Victoria's Secret spokesmodel. It's a great life skill.

  Erin Heatherton

  Skills, Secret, Victoria

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• The unhappy theory of business ethics is this: you have a fiduciary responsibility to maximize profit. Period. To do anything other than that is to cheat your investors. And in a competitive world, you don't have much wiggle room here.

  Seth Godin

  Unhappy, Fiduciary, World

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• ...every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Men, Guilt, Share

  Henrik Ibsen (1905). “Letters of Henrik Ibsen”

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• In order for the inner man to be strengthened with power through the Holy Spirit, the children of God must discharge their responsibility. They need to yield specifically to the Lord, forsake every doubtful aspect in their life, be willing to obey fully God's will, and believe through prayer that He will flood their spirit with His power.

  Watchman Nee

  Prayer, Children, Believe

  Watchman Nee (1993). “The Finest of the Wheat, vol 2: Selected Excerpts from the Published Works of Watchman Nee”, p.50, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs ...[they] are an obligation put on us, a responsibility we have no right to neglect, nor to violate by cruelty.

  James Herriot

  Loyalty, Gratitude, Children

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• For too long, humanity has acted with an outrageous lack of responsibility. We wanted everything for ourselves: greed, really. We failed to look at the overall picture and did not take into consideration those with whom we share the world.

  Shari Arison

  Long, Greed, Humanity

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• I've got four kids to feed and a wife to provide for. It's a worry but a great responsibility as well and one I relish.

  Eddie Marsan

  Kids, Wife, Worry

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• Responsibility without power is a really bad deal.

  Patrick Califia

  Deals

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• With freedom comes responsibility

  Jesse Ventura

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• What you learn from that first, and I don't call it 'trial by fire,' I call it 'baptism by fire,' is that you are going to have to take all of the responsibility, because basically when it gets right down to it, you are going to get all of the blame, so you might as well have made all of the decisions that led to people either liking it or disliking it. There's nothing worse than hearing somebody say 'Oh, you made that movie? I thought that movie sucked,' and you have to agree with them, you know?

  David Fincher

  Fire, People, Decision

  "David Fincher and Quint talk about everything from A(lien3) to Z(odiac)!!!". Interview with Quint, www.aintitcool.com. January 1, 2008.

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• Did you know that every human being is created with a purpose and that they have a responsibility to not only discover their purpose but also to fulfill it?

  Zig Ziglar

  Purpose, Humans, Knows

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Feb 13, 2013

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• That's the biggest problem existing in this country! People are always mixing up the word free and freedom. Free is something you get for nothin.' Freedom is a responsibility. We think freedom means do nothing, don't be responsible for your actions.... I think its time for adult Americans to be responsible for themselves, to take back the responsibility of being a free nation.

  Aaron Tippin

  Country, Mean, Thinking

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• The greater is our sphere of influence, the greater the responsibility.

  Radhanath Swami

  Sphere Of Influence, Spheres, Greater

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• Responsibility means to perform our service properly,with proper attitude, behavior and words.

  Radhanath Swami

  Attitude, Mean, Behavior

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• When you take responsibility over others you have to be actually Selfless.

  Radhanath Swami

  Selfless, Taking Responsibility

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