We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until… we have stopped saying “It got lost,” and say “I lost it.” – Sidney J. Harris
You can awaken each day to obligations you never chose — or you can decide now to choose them. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action. – Stanley Milgram
When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself. – Louis Nizer
Whether or not you have children yourself, you are a parent to the next generation. If we can only stop thinking of children as individual property and think of them as the next generation, then we can realize we all have a role to play. – Charlotte Davis Kasl, Finding Joy, 1994
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us. – Woodrow Wilson
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. – Voltaire
No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility. – Gerald W. Johnson
Never point a finger where you never lent a hand. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
We all participate in weaving the social fabric; we should therefore all participate in patching the fabric when it develops holes — mismatches between old expectations and current realities. – Anne C. Weisberg, Everything a Working Mother Needs to Know, 1994
The burden one likes is cheerfully carried. – Proverb
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. – Douglas Adams
To shun ones cross is to make it heavier. – Henri Frederic Amiel
No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it. – Aristotle
Choice of attention – to pay attention to this and ignore that – is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be. – W. H. Auden
The way to avoid responsibility is to say, Ive got responsibilities. – Richard Bach
The mould of a mans fortune is in his own hands. – Francis Bacon
God, Private Enterprise and government have made me what I am, and now they have to take some of the blame. – Joy Baluch
