Tony Cardenas Quotes

It's indifference and ignorance that stops people from doing the right thing.

We do not just blindly concede control to authorities; instead we follow the cues provided by our moral communities on how best to behave.

We need to get back to a level of social responsibility that we haven't seen for a long time.

It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.

Politics is not the nicest business, but there are still times when people do the right thing.

Americans believe that if you know something, you should do something about it.

Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence.

People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

Yes, we have the freedom to do what we please, but it only works because we don't do everything we might please - we should exercise some degree of personal, and corporate, responsibility.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don't do that, we really deserve the world we get.

Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

There's always going to be a need for activism; there's always going to be a need for you and me doing the right thing, being very Lincoln-sonian in looking out for each other.

The European model is in danger if we obliterate the principle of personal responsibility.

Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.

It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

Until we all start to take responsibility, until we do all we can to improve the character of our communities, we'll never break the cycle of violence and indifference.

In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue.

Who can protest and does not, is an accomplice in the act.

The members of the Church, as members of society, have the same right and duty to promote the common good as do other citizens.

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

We are responsible for what we do, and also for the influence of our example.

Our task is to be responsible for our speech, acts and political standpoint. These must be in conformity with the people's ideas and interests

No one is too young to do the right thing.