Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [41-60] of 1000 Responsibility quotesResponsibility QuotesResponsibility Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and others will alter towards him.~ James Allen Liberty is always unfinished business.~ American Civil Liberties Union We trust Americans to recognize propaganda and misinformation, and to make their own decisions about what they read and believe.~ American Library Association The USA was founded in the name of democracy, equality and individual freedom, but is failing to deliver the fundamental promise of protecting rights for all.~ Amnesty International Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.~ Walter Truett Anderson A man should be upright, not be kept upright.~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong-doer.~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.~ Saint Thomas Aquinas Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.~ Saint Thomas Aquinas The first step to truly living a good and fearless life, is accepting responsibility for your actions. Accepting what part you had in any situation. Difficult, to say the least, but liberating.~ Jann Arden No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.~ Hannah Arendt The main characteristic of any event is that it has not been foreseen. We don’t know the future but everybody acts into the future. Nobody knows what he is doing because the future is being done, action is being done by a “we” and not an “I.” Only if I were the only one acting could I foretell the consequences of what I’m doing. What actually happens is entirely contingent, and contingency is indeed one of the biggest factors in all history. Nobody knows what is going to happen because so much depends on an enormous number of variables, on simple hazard. On the other hand if you look at history retrospectively, then, even though it was contingent, you can tell a story that makes sense…. Jewish history, for example, in fact had its ups and downs, its, enmities and its friendships, as every history of all people has. The notion that there is one unilinear history is of course false. But if you look at it after the experience of Auschwitz it looks as though all of history -- or at least history since the Middle Ages -- had no other aim than Auschwitz…. This, is the real problem of every philosophy of history how is it possible that in retrospect it always looks as though it couldn’t have happened otherwise?~ Hannah Arendt I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.~ Pietro Aretino To the size of the state there is a limit, as there is to plants, animals and implements, for none of these retain their facility when they are too large.~ Aristotle Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil -- and if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.~ Aristotle If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.~ Aristotle Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.~ Richard Armey But each day brings its petty dust Our soon-chok'd souls to fill, And we forget because we must, And not because we will.~ Matthew Arnold Put no faith in salvation through the political order.~ Augustine of Hippo It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty, or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.~ Sir Francis Bacon Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print