Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [981-1000] of 1002 Responsibility quotesResponsibility QuotesResponsibility Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.~ Elie Wiesel The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.~ Elie Wiesel There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.~ Elie Wiesel Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.~ Oscar Wilde To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.~ Oscar Wilde Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.~ Oscar Wilde The cultivation -- even celebration -- of victimhood by intellectuals, tort lawyers, politicians and the media is both cause and effect of today's culture of complaint.~ George Will Liberalism is a moral manipulation that exaggerates inequity and unfairness in American life in order to justify overreaching public policies and programs. Liberalism undermines the spirit of self-help and individual responsibility. For liberals in academia, the fact that black college students earn lower grades and have a higher dropout rate than any group besides reservation Indians means that blacks remain stymied and victimized by white racism. Thus, their push for affirmative action and other race-based programs is to assuage their guilt and shame for America’s past by having people around with black skin color. The heck with the human being inside that skin.~ Walter E. Williams The framers gave us the Second Amendment not so we could go deer or duck hunting but to give us a modicum of protection against congressional tyranny.~ Walter E. Williams Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.~ Woodrow Wilson I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, 'A free field and no favor.'~ Woodrow Wilson You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.~ Woodrow Wilson Primitive communism ... once existed among all peoples and still survives in many uncivilized countries. All production in this stage of society is under the direction of chiefs or councils of elders. No individual responsibility exists.~ George Winder America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards. On the road to tyranny, we've gone so far that polite political action is about as useless as a miniskirt in a convent. ... Something’s eventually going to happen. Government will bloat until it chokes us to death, or one more tyrannical power grab will turn out to be one too many. ... Maybe it’ll be one more round of “reasonable gun control” or one more episode of burning children to death to save them from “child abuse.” Whatever, something will snap.~ Claire Wolfe America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards. On the road to tyranny, we've gone so far that polite political action is about as useless as a miniskirt in a convent.~ Claire Wolfe Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.~ John Wooden To enjoy freedom, if the platitude is pardonable, we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in order to water a single rose-bush; we must train them, exactly and powerfully, here on the very spot.~ Virginia Woolf I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.~ Alexander Woollcott Man free, man working for himself, with choice of time, place, and object.~ William Wordsworth It perhaps goes without saying that the ‘average’ gun owner and the ‘average’ criminal are worlds apart in background, social outlooks, and economic circumstances. The idea that common, ordinary citizens are somehow transformed into potential perpetrators of criminally violent acts once they have acquired a firearm seems farfetched, most of all since there is substantial evidence that the typical gun owner is affluent, Protestant, and middle-class.~ James D. Wright Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print