Jeremy Paxman Quotes

I feel like I have to be responsible for what I'm participating in or putting out into the world.

I don't personally feel a responsibility to be a role model, but as the actor, I do.

I had enabled the development of a corrupt system right under my very eyes..

Don’t do or say things you would not like to see on the front page of the Washington Post.

I can ruin my own career, but I will not ruin anyone elses' career with my mouth.

The most important thing to me as a practitioner has been fidelity to my obligations and to the law.

The power to remove an individual from office is reserved for the greatest betrayals of public trust, not just because you disagree with someone.

If all power corrupts, then a doctor, who literally holds life and death in his hands, must be at particular risk.

When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.

In order not to be misunderstood, I want it perfectly clear that I believe it is incumbent on us to conduct our lives in a way that takes into account all the consequences of our actions, including the consequences to other people, and the consequences to the environment.

My overall responsibility is to be truthful. If people pay money to come and see me, looking for something other than that, then they've made a mistake.

One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.

People need responsibility. They resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it.

You are responsible for what you have done and the people whom you have influenced.

God will judge people on the basis of what they did in light of what they knew.

If you can be that link to other people that came before you and the ones that come after, then you have to honor that link. If you are doing what somebody else tells you to do and you have success, it's horrible. And if you are doing what other people tell you to do and you fail, it's equally horrible.

I'm pretty moral about what I do. If I didn't think I was worthy of doing something, I wouldn't do it. I ain't gonna waste a bunch of people's time.

Duty is one and invariable; it requires no impossibilities, nor can it ever be disregarded with impunity.

You will not become a saint through other people's sins.

Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done.

In a profession, members are only partly guided by service to the public.

People have offered me opportunities in exchange for sleeping with them. But it's not 1952 anymore.

God holds his people responsible for righteousness, not for results.

People are not afraid of failure, they're afraid of blame.

I realized that what we do as professions affects how we act as people, big-time.