Albert J. Beveridge Quotes

Obligations may be universal or particular.

I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.

People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.

In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.

I have a lot of obligations.

I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise.

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

Duties and rights are reciprocal

The Church emphasis responsibility more than rights.

Everyone has to have a sense of duty. A duty to society, to their family. I mean, you name it.

Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shrink neither.

The family is the school of duties - founded on love.

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

Before you're a writer, you're a citizen, a human being, and therefore the weapons of the citizen are at your disposal to use or not use.

A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.

There is no shame in black athletes not wanting to be role models, but there should be shame when they don't behave like one. It's a free country and people can do whatever they want. But just because we can doesn't mean we should.

If kids can have some sort of social responsibility, that's cool. But if they're not actually having social responsibility, and they're kind of hiding behind it, that's kind of useless, or even worse.

Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.

No Georgian has the right to evade or neglect his duties and responsibilities.

More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.

And they understand that to be an effective member of a democracy, you have to accept responsibility.

I think you have a responsibility to the people you're making movies with, and I take that very seriously. I don't want to let up and I don't want to let down.

We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.

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.

But if I were to sum up who Barack Obama is and how he plans to meet this moment with one word, that word would be 'responsibility.' Responsibility to each other, our families, our communities, our country, and our world.