Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

                                          —Plato

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

           —John D. Rockefeller, Jr

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them. —T.S. Eliot

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

                  —Robert A. Heinlein

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse — what I am is beyond my control — for the philosophy of responsibility.

                       —Barbara Jordan

You are 100 percent responsible for how your children turn out. And you accomplish that by teaching them that they are 100 percent responsible for how they turn out.

                —Peter Keostenbaum

People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights. —Indira Gandhi

When you blame others, you give up your power to change.

                       —Robert Anthony

Almost all unhappiness in life comes from the tendency to blame someone else.

                            —Brian Tracey

It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.

                          —Josiah Stamp

You have a solemn obligation to take care of yourself because you never know when the world will need you.

                             —Rabbi Hillel