responsibility Quotes

Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.

Our virtues are voluntary (and in fact we are in a sense ourselves partly the cause of our moral dispositions, and it is our having a certain character that makes us set up an end of a certain kind), it... ...

The intention makes the crime.

If we can choose to do something, we can also choose not to do it.

One citizen differs from another, but the salvation of the community is the common business of them all. This community is the constitution; the virtue of the citizen must therefore be relative to the constitution of which he is a... ...

Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

We are the sum of our actions, and therefore our habits make all the difference.

Every man should be responsible to others, nor should anyone be allowed to do just as he pleases; for where absolute freedom is allowed there is nothing to restrain the evil which is inherent in every man. But the principle... ...