"We've gotten to the point where everybody's got a right and nobody's got a responsibility."

-- Newton N. Minow

#Responsibility Quotes

“Naturally enough when I was a young dancer, I was terribly anxious to get ahead, and to get ahead quickly. I was impatient with all those older people who talked of the long grind to the top, who turned me down for jobs I knew I could do.”
“Love is your job description - no matter what you do for a living. If you ever feel unsure of what you're supposed to do in a situation, here's a good rule of thumb: always do what leads to greater love.”

Source : Marci Shimoff, Carol Kline, Marianne Williamson (2012). “Love For No Reason: 7 Steps to Creating a Life of Unconditional Love”, p.287, Simon and Schuster
“I do like to explore evil characters in my books.”
“It seems to me one cannot sit down in that place [the Round Reading room of the British Museum] without a heart full of grateful reverence. I own to have said my grace at the table, and to have thanked Heaven for my English birthright, freely to partake of these beautiful books, and speak the truth I find there.”
“You give your film away to the audience once it's done. I never look at my films after the premier. The film needs to start its own history.”
“The crisis of the 1930s and the populist reactions of that time must not be forgotten.”

Source : "Belgium King Albert II Christmas Speech Sparks Controversy". www.bbc.com. December 27, 2012.
“In nothing was slavery so savage and relentless as in its attempted destruction of the family instincts of the Negro race in America. Individuals, not families; shelters, not homes; herding, not marriages, were the cardinal sins in that system of horrors.”
“Dewdrops, Nature's tears, which she Sheds in her own breast for the fair which die. The sun insists on gladness; but at night, When he is gone, poor Nature loves to weep.”

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