You have a responsibility when you have a large community.
The most meaningless term in the English language is 'I take full responsibility. ' When a politician utters those words it means absolutely nothing.
We think leadership is about rank and power, but better to think of leadership as the responsibility for other human beings. That leadership and rank may not go together. So it manifests in this remarkable way.
If I ever have a son, and if he wants to follow in my footsteps in Formula 1, my main responsibility will be to point out some of the negatives.
We gotta figure out a way to pay our teachers more. They're like surrogate parents away from home. They have such a huge responsibility and they're underappreciated and underpaid.
The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy.
Well I think in a marriage you have to be honest and ask yourself, you know, what is my role? What is my responsibility?
The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.
I want to be remembered for the good things - for winning the Champions League, for winning five of the first six trophies at Barcelona. I could win another Champions League and I want to go on making history. It goes back to the feeling of more responsibility at Liverpool. I felt I had to suffer more to not be criticised but here the responsibility falls on others too and I can enjoy it more.
Why did the Lord give use so much quickness unless it was to avoid responsibility?
It is the least represented among us who will be the most affected first. We have a moral responsibility to protect them.
God will himself one day hold all humans, and all human governments, to account, but the church has the responsibility in the present to speak words of truth and judgment in advance of that final holding-to-account.
Those who have the ability to take action have the responsibility to take action.
To drive to extinction something He has created is wrong. He has a purpose for everything. . . We Christians have a responsibility to take the lead in caring for the earth.
As young Americans, you have an important responsibility, which is to become good citizens.
It's so much easier to get high than how scary it must be to see who you actually are and take responsibility for it. Denial is an easy place to live in.
In fact, I am so happy to be turning 40 and finally having a reason to take responsibility for my own behavior. It's also worked for me in terms of my physical appearance and emotional make-up and people entrusting me to bring the things a role deserves. I don't know whether that's depth or being a curmudgeon or what.
To me, it really seems visible today that ethics is not something exterior to the economy, which, as technical matter, could function on its own; rather, ethics is an interior principle of the economy itself, which cannot function if it does not take account of the human values of solidarity and reciprocal responsibility.
The market is a mechanism for sorting the efficient from the inefficient, it is not a substitute for responsibility.
I think the difference between finding happiness, or moments of happiness, is how you choose to interpret things. That's a rather shocking responsibility. That we're responsible for our own happiness. It's not those around us.