Beto O'Rourke Quotes

You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch.

Someone once asked, 'What is the difference between me and Saddam Hussein?' The answer is, 'I have a conscience and he doesn't.'

My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

An animal takes freely anything that it wishes: it commits no sin and is not held responsible for its action because it knows no better. But as soon as the idea of 'mine' and 'thine' has been imprinted upon our consciousness, then also the responsibility comes.

To the extent that I considered the personal burden of harming the people who had trusted me, plus the Agency, or the United States, I wasn't processing that.

Immoral is choosing not to act when you hold in your hands the power to create perfection.

We are responsible not only for what we do but also for what we could have prevented.

We are not only responsible for what we do but also for what we do not do.

Conscience is the anticipation of the fellow who awaits you if and when you come home.

I’m willing to meet my creator and answer every shot that I took.

On the day of my judgment, when I stand before God, and He asks me why did I kill one of his true miracles, what am I gonna say? That it was my job? My job?

To spare the guilty is to injure the innocent.

Everyone in daily life carries such a heavy mixed burden on his own conscience that he is reluctant to penalize those who have been caught.

Not responding is a response--we are equally responsible for what we don't do. In the case of animal slaughter, to throw your hands in the air is to wrap your fingers around a knife handle.

There is nothing more tragic in all the world than to know right and not to do it.

A first impulse was never a crime.

We tend to think that people are more to blame for their acts than for their omissions.

Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.

I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power.

People have a right to ask questions and dig deep when you're hurting people and things around you.

The Boogeyman is your conscience. The Boogeyman is the result of your own bad behavior. I love this Boogeyman.

They are focused on whether they can do something. They never think whether they should do something.

Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.

Going home must be like going to render an account.