Richard L. Evans Quotes

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

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm

Give orders, and do no more, and nothing will get done.

A problem is that if all of us are collectively responsible for a big world goal, then no single agency or politician is held accountable if the goal is not met. Collective responsibility for world goals works about as well as collective farms in agriculture, and for the same reason.

We too often prefer the individual thrill to collective responsibility.

The President can't deliver us. I'm not a package to be picked up at a department store.

The nebulocity known as the international community is ultimately accountable to nobody.

Every executive function, whether superior or subordinate, should be the appointed duty of some given individual. It should be apparent to all the world who did everything, and through whose default anything was left undone. Responsibility is null when nobody knows who is responsible. Nor, even when real, can it be divided without being weakened.

We have to live with the world that we helped to create.

Responsibility is a unique concept... You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but it is still with you...

Everyone carries a part of society on his shoulders; no one is relieved of his share of responsibility …

Freedom requires civil responsibility.

The world does not owe any man a living, but we all owe one another a living.

Everyone must understand that you can't demand solidarity when there's a problem and shirk your duties when there are solutions.

If all of us try to do everything, we will accomplish nothing.

We need to step up because our past generations did their jobs; we now need to do ours.

Marikana should not have happened. We are all to blame, and there are many stakeholders that should take the blame. But taking the blame should mean that we should make sure it never, ever, happens again.

If I have the chance to say something, I will say it - but that doesn't obligate me to always say something, or to shed light on every problem, as if I were a lawmaker.

It's important everyone knows their roles individually and collectively as a group.

Team members have to hold each other accountable. If there's a meeting, all members have to commit to be present and to help one another; they can't just check out when they feel they're not getting any benefits.

I firmly believe that to whom much is given, much is expected.

You can't have it all one way - be on the telly and the radio and make lots of money - and not offer anything to your followers when they need you.

I've been raised and taught to believe that privilege should lead to responsibility - in fact to greater responsibility.

I do not like disappointing people.

You are not electing your parliamentarian or your MP to the corridors of power. You are electing them to the corridors of responsibility.