Gordon B. Hinckley Quotes

Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind.

We must cultivate a universal responsibility toward each other and extend it to the planet that we have to share

The roots of responsibility run out to the ends of the earth and we can no more isolate our consciences from world issues than we can fence off our oyster beds from the tides of the ocean.

We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government. 'Am I my brother's keeper?' Most certainly I am! I cannot escape my responsibility by saying the State will do all that is necessary. It is a tragedy that nowadays so many think and feel otherwise.

We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say "It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem." Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.

Few are guilty, but all are responsible.

Man has not the right to turn aside and heed not what is happening in the world around him, and this I maintain on moral grounds of the highest order.

Does a human being know the responsibility he has to himself and to all of mankind

I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.

We're not passengers on Spaceship Earth. We're the crew.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

We cannot fly from our world duties.

We just have to be careful of our actions as world citizens.

Canadians are known for having a social conscience, and so our political leaders need to do more to uphold that reputation on the international stage.

We cannot shirk responsibility from concerns for the welfare of the next generation.

Since after extinction no one will be present to take responsibility, we have to take full responsibility now.

After all, the world is not our handiwork, and we are not responsible for what goes on in it, save within very narrow limits.

In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom

I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and save the world. You sent money to the Red Cross, you registered people to vote, you marched in rallies, stood in vigils, picked up litter.

Each of us must learn to work not just for one self, one's own family or one's nation, but for the benefit of all humankind. Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace.

The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.

We each have a moral obligation to conserve and preserve beauty in this world; there is none to waste.

Liberty is a duty, not a right.

Those who have the ability to take action have the responsibility to take action.