Albert Schweitzer Quotes

I think it's the responsibility of every human being, not just those who wear the identity of poet, activist, voter, religious person... it's the responsibility of every person. Our responsibility is to use our intelligence as clearly and coherently as we possibly can.

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

The most dangerous aspect of contemporary life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility.

In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom

The true source of rights is duty.

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

Liberty is a duty, not a right.

Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.

To be individually righteous is the first of all duties, come what may to ones self, to one's country, to society, and to civilization itself.

It is pretty hard to talk about responsibility unless you have exercised it yourself.

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

Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular job. It lies with each of us individually.

The moral difference between a soldier and a civilian is that the soldier accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the body politic of which he is a member. The civilian does not.

I learned from my illiterate but wise mother that all rights to be deserved and preserved came from duty well done. Thus the very right to live accrues to us only when we do the duty of citizenship of the world. From this one fundamental statement, perhaps it is easy enough to define the duties of Man and Woman and correlate every right to some corresponding duty to be first performed. Every other right can be shown to be a usurpation hardly worth fighting for.

There's a responsibility in being a person. It's more than just taking up space where air would be.

I did only what my duty demanded. I could have taken no other course without dishonor.

The time has come to accept in our hearts and minds that with freedom comes responsibility.

It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.

I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.

Not only will you be held accountable for the things you do, but you will be held responsible for the very thoughts you think.

Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of men.

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support.

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.