Barbara Kingsolver Quotes

We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

Regardless, for me, I feel a personal obligation and a social responsibility.

But we must create in each person a sense of responsibility in order that each one of us can have the right to enjoy all his rights.

I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise.

It is time to break the bad habit of expecting something for nothing from our Government or from each other. Let us all take more responsibility not only for ourselves and our families but our communities and our country.

Yes, I am my brother's keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him that is inspired, not by maudlin sentimentality, but by the higher duty I owe myself.

All power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise.

The love of individual freedom has stood in the way of the appreciation of social obligations.

Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit.

Rights! There are no rights whatever without corresponding duties.

It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice

Liberty is not a right but a duty.

Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.

We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.

A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.

I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.

People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.

The European model is in danger if we obliterate the principle of personal responsibility.

There is no entitlement without a duty.

Duties and rights are reciprocal

The more the power of men and women increases, the greater is their responsibility as individuals and as members of the community.

The right to private property is inconceivable without responsibilities to the common good.