Responsible Quotes

It came as a great shock to me when I heard that England and Soviet Russia had become allies. So much so that I thought that the people responsible in London were acting in a manner that no longer coincided with British imperial interests.

There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities.

And as the hour approached for the execution, in his own mind, Collins became both the executioner and the victim. He would pace up and down, transformed in almost a kind of exorcism when he knew he was responsible for taking someone's life.

If you commit a big crime then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime the crazier you must be. Therefore you are not responsible, and nothing is your fault.

Obviously a candidate has to be held responsible for the words that come out of his mouth, regardless of where they came from.

We passed important laws to give the authorities responsible for investigation wide powers to defend us.

But if I had to do it, handle money, then I think I could be responsible, yes.

You cannot be responsible for salvation until first you've been responsible for sin.

We may not find the answers. We may not find Bigfoot. We may not find a chupacabra. We may not find out who was responsible for killing JFK, but we're going to keep looking, asking, probing. And one day - you know what? - we may get some of those answers.

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

The Gulf War is responsible for the huge and horrifying rise in Islamic terrorism.

Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.

You see, I have in my teaching - I always say I've done it for a hundred years and have had thousands of students - I have always spoken against just falling onto your knees for so-called accidents, I mean a result you are not responsible for.

An adversarial family law system raises the stakes unnecessarily high, exacerbates the antagonism of the couples concerned, and is directly responsible for making it impossible for couples who would otherwise have reconciled to do so.

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.

The institutions of the European Union, and the states that belong to this union, each and every one, are paying the price of our failures, hesitations and contradictions. We should each ask ourselves how personally responsible we are.

We got babies raising babies, and its important for us as responsible adults to go out and do what we can to make sure that our kids are steered in the right direction.

The history of America is to expand civil liberties in a responsible and civil manner. We need to remember that our wonderful Democracy with its freedoms has been working.

Responsible choice involves consequences, not the least of which are relinquishments all along our way.

Not that it entirely matters: There is a perception that all actors make their movies. A lot of people assume you're responsible. George Clooney told me actors get all of the blame and all the credit.

I love to utilize my celebrity status in a responsible and constructive and substantive manner. I like to get my hands dirty rather than a photo op.

While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

I was in the room with, you know, more than a dozen Republicans trying to negotiate the stimulus. Most of them decided the politics of the situation meant they should walk away, even if it wasn't responsible in terms of what our country needed right then.

I love being the bad guy, simply because I was always so responsible, so predictable growing up.

I am responsible for no one but myself.

Most people assume that women are responsible for households and child care. Most couples operate that way - not all. That fundamental assumption holds women back.

My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment.

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

I thank all of those deputies who supported the government and gave it a vote of confidence. I believe each of those votes represents a responsible decision to avoid placing our country's membership of the eurozone in danger.