Responsible Communication Quotes

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

Well, part of the thing is, like, what's the difference between censorship and social responsibility? I sometimes find that the whole censorship argument is used as a way for people to avoid the fact that they're like.

People are just passively accepting what you tell them, so if you are on TV there is that greater responsibility to be true.

It is O. K. for me to feel angry and to express it in responsible ways.

I don't want to make public statements about issues that I have not studied in detail.

Texting is a supremely secretive medium of communication - it's like passing a note - and this means we should be very careful what we use it for.

In order to maintain public trust in government, elected officials must answer for what they do and say; this includes 140-character tweets.

I think you can make jokes about anything. But you have to accept that there will be people who don't like it. And they are completely within their rights, just as you are completely within your rights to say whatever you want to say. They're within their rights to react how they're going to react.

If I do an interview, then I take full responsibility. I figure I'm not going to talk to anyone that I think is unethical anyway.

I went into journalism for a reason. I try to be a thoughtful person. I try to see all sides. And I do think before I speak.

Apply this simple rule to your conversations: If you wouldn't write it down and sign it, don't say it.

In the course of our daily lives, we're bombarded with a barrage of visual messages, some blatantly aggressive, some subtle. The trick is to find a way to break through without adding to the clutter and the ugliness. We have to be responsible about that.

No mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something.

I speak as briefly as possible because too much harm has already been done with irresponsible words of bitterness and selfish political opportunism. I speak as simply as possible because the issue is too great to be obscured by eloquence. I speak simply and briefly in the hope that my words will be taken to heart.

As musicians, and as people who sell material for people to hear and absorb, it's important that we use that voice wisely.

One of the best and most responsible things a scientist can do is to write for the popular press.

In a discreet man's mouth, a public thing is private.

I always told myself that if I was going to be given a voice, I might as well say something worth listening to and not something that's just going to feed people stupidity.

My songs are the reflection of how I think and how I feel in that moment. But I'm conscious of the fact that artists have a responsibility before the masses and they have to take care with their words.

I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind.

Publicly criticizing people, even when I don't have the facts, is not that good of an idea.

When you have a voice, and you have an opportunity at the world level to be able to speak, it has to be right.

I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.