Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [801-820] of 1002 Responsibility quotesResponsibility QuotesResponsibility Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Life is but a blink, and it matters.~ Eric Schaub The Truth is not a thing. It is alive. It cannot be grasped. It is spoken.~ Eric Schaub A juror who is forced by the judge’s instructions to convict a defendant whose conduct he applauds or at the least feels is justifiable, will lose respect for the legal system. . . . A juror compelled to decide against his own judgment will rebel at the system that made him a traitor to himself.~ Alan W. Scheflin Liberalism regards all absolutes with profound skepticism, including both moral imperatives and final solutions... Insistence upon any particular solution is the mark of an ideologue...~ Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.~ Bruce Schneier If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.~ Carl Schurz From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.~ Carl Schurz The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.~ General H. Norman Schwarzkopf I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found a way to serve.~ Albert Schweitzer I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.~ Albert Schweitzer The welfare state that is built upon this conception seems to prove precisely away from the conservative conception of authoritative and personal government, towards a labyrinthine privilege sodden structure of anonymous power, structuring a citizenship that is increasingly reluctant to answer for itself, increasingly parasitic on the dispensations of a bureaucracy towards which it can feel no gratitude.~ Roger Scruton A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca A sword never kills anybody; it's a tool in the killer's hand.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca What is freedom? It means not being a slave to any circumstance, to any restraint, to any chance.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca Freedom can't be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca Who profits by a sin has done the sin.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca He who, when he may, forbids not sin, commands it.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca Because we fear the responsibility for our actions, we have allowed ourselves to develop the mentality of slaves. Contrary to the stirring sentiments of the Declaration of Independence, we now pledge "our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor" not to one another for our mutual protection, but to the state, whose actions continue to exploit, despoil, and destroy us.~ Butler D. Shaffer Our lack of constant awareness has also permitted us to accept definitions of freedom that are not necessarily consistent with the actuality of being free. Because we have learned to confuse the word with the reality the word seeks to describe, our vocabulary has become riddled with distorted and contradictory meanings smuggled into the language.~ Butler D. Shaffer The idea of creating systems designed to threaten, coerce, and kill, and to imbue such agencies with principled legitimacy, and not expect them to lead to wars, genocides, and other tyrannical practices, expresses an innocence we can no longer afford to indulge.~ Butler D. Shaffer Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print