Khmer Rouge Quotes

Yes, we have the freedom to do what we please, but it only works because we don't do everything we might please - we should exercise some degree of personal, and corporate, responsibility.

If you accept the privilege of public service, you had better understand the responsibilities of public service.

We are responsible for what we do, and also for the influence of our example.

It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.

You can't run a society or cope with its problems if people are not held accountable for what they do.

[A] society which makes freedom its primary goal will lose it, because it has made, not responsibility, but freedom from responsibility, its purpose. When freedom is the basic emphasis, it is not responsible speech which is fostered but irresponsible speech.

I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.

I believe that people who do not vote in this country have no right to complain about the government that we are now living under. By the same token, if you don't really vote in television, you're never going to have your way. Write a letter to the president of the network.

People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.

Any political agenda and organization which doesn't begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It's just not going to succeed.

I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views.

I don't feel responsible for things I didn't vote for.

'The Author' is a play about responsibility, how active we are as spectators and how responsible we are for what we choose to look at.

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.

Every human must take responsibility for his actions.

I don't feel political most of the time. Sometimes I'm placed in positions because no one else will go there.

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

If I weren't doing the politics, I wouldn't be doing my job.

This was the way I was brought up to think of politics, that politics was to do with ethics, it was to do with responsibility, it was to do with service, so I think I was conditioned to think like that, and I'm too old to change now.

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.

I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.

The public have neither shame or gratitude.

Thus, neither my government nor myself, personally, are without ideals and responsibilities.

You don't ever earn a right to stop doing anything if you feel there is an obligation to move in terms of public service.

In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue.