#responsibility

Congress has a responsibility to make sure our taxpayer dollars are being spent responsibly and effectively, and at the same time, that our men and women in uniform have everything they need to carry out the War on Terror. ↗

— Larry Craig

#carry #congress #dollars #effectively #everything

Human rights' are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at the expense of the rights of others. A society with unlimited rights is incapable of standing to adversity. If we do not wish to be ruled by a coercive authority, then each of us must rein himself in...A stable society is achieved not by balancing opposing forces but by conscious self-limitation: by the principle that we are always duty-bound to defer to the sense of moral justice. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#human-rights #limitations #personal-autonomy #personal-responsibility #freedom

I think that has to do with my awareness that in a sense we all have a certain measure of responsibility to those who have made it possible for us to take advantage of the opportunities. ↗

— Angela Davis

#awareness #certain #i #i think #made

No one has the responsibility to be out to anyone but himself or herself. I made my choice a million years ago. ↗

— Lea DeLaria

#anyone #choice #herself #himself #i

The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#been #behind #driving #driving force #europe

Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages. ↗

— Ariel Dorfman

#fate #power #responsibility #secretary #through

I think I've got a responsibility to be home a little bit more, be available to my family a little bit more and do some things to help make our country better. I don't know what that is right now, but we'll see. ↗

— Tony Dungy

#better #bit #country #family #got

At one time I thought he wanted to be an actor. He had certain qualifications, including no money and a total lack of responsibility. ↗

— Hedda Hopper

#certain #had #i #including #lack

Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work." (Claiming an Education, 1977) ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#empowerment #feminism #independent-thought #responsibility #self-determination

Now he understood clearly that roads do divide, at the crossroad there is a choice, and blinding oneself to it is a form of choosing, too; it is the fool's way, the coward's way. ↗

— Erik Christian Haugaard

#choice #freedom #responsibility #faith