Quotes about responsibility
87 quotes from 73 people
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Caesar and Cleopatra (1898), Act IIIThe ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
Herbert Spencer1820–1903Essays: Scientific, Political, and Speculative (1891), Vol. 3, Ch. IX, State-Tamperings with Money and BanksThere is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)The responsibility of the great states is to serve and not to dominate the world.
Harry S. Truman1884–1972Address to Congress (April 16, 1945)
Mark Twain1835–1910Papers of the Adam Family (1939), Part VI: “Two Fragments from a Suppressed Book Called ‘Glances at History’ or ‘Outlines of History’ “It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.
Peter Ustinov1921–2004BBC obituary (2004)
Booker T. Washington1856–1915Up From Slavery (1901), Chapter XI: Making Their Beds Before They Could Lie On Them
Kanye Westborn 1977October 16, 2011 tweetThe worst of doing one’s duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.
You must intervene. You must interfere. And that is actually the motto of human rights.
Elie Wiesel1928–2016Commencement ceremony (Class of 2011) at Washington University in St. Louis.
