Power And Responsibility Quotes

• Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

  J. G. Holland

  Inspirational, Motivational, Responsibility

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• Great power involves great responsibility

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Responsibility, Great Power, Great Responsibility

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• Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Wise, Responsibility

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  Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom

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• Each of us has the power and responsibility to become a rainbow in the clouds.

  Maya Angelou

  Responsibility, Clouds, Rainbow

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• In private matters everyone is equal before the law. In public matters, when it is a question of putting power and responsibility into the hands of one man rather than another, what counts is not rank or money, but the ability to do the job well.

  Pericles

  Jobs, Responsibility, Men

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  You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Basketball, Peace

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• Each of us has the power and responsibility to heal ourselves, to be our own medicine man or woman. Awakening our innate powers of being, loving, knowing, seeing, and healing involves ongoing work at all levels and in all dimensions of our self. Exploring the range of rhythms and emotions, achieving insights into our conditioning and ego, moving through the energy levels of spirit – these are all activities to be integrated into our daily lives.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Moving, Responsibility, Healing

  Gabrielle Roth (2011). “Maps to Ecstasy: The Healing Power of Movement”, p.210, New World Library

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• We in this country, in this generation, areby destiny rather than choicethe watchmen on the walls of world freedom. We ask, therefore, that we may be worthy of our power and responsibility, that we may exercise our strength with wisdom and restraint, and that we may achieve in our time and for all time the ancient vision of peace on earth, good will toward men. That must always be our goal, and the righteousness of our cause must always underlie our strength. For as was written long ago: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Peace, Wall

  Undelivered Speech to the Dallas Citizens Council, delivered 22 November 1963, Trade Mart, Dallas, Texas

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• It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.

  Noam Chomsky

  Leadership, Truth, Lying

  Noam Chomsky (2010). “The Chomsky Reader”, p.60, Pantheon

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• The first of our senses which we should take care never to let rust through disuse is that sixth sense, the imagination. I mean the wide-open eye which leads us to see truth more vividly, to apprehend more broadly, to concern ourselves more deeply, to be, all our life long, sensitive and awake to the powers and responsibilities given to us as human beings.

  Christopher Fry

  Life, Truth, Mean

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• A person who believes that Elvis is still alive is very unlikely to get promoted to a position of great power and responsibility in our society. Neither will a person who believes that the holocaust was a hoax. But people who believe equally irrational things about God and the bible are now running our country. This is genuinely terrifying.

  Sam Harris

  Running, Country, Believe

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• Man is not intended to see through the eyes of another, hear through another's ears nor comprehend with another's brain. Each human creature has individual endowment, power and responsibility in the creative plan of God.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Responsibility, Eye, Men

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• There's a lot of power and responsibility that comes with owning who you are as a woman.

  Mia Goth

  Responsibility, Who You Are

  Source: screenrant.com

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• Great American power and responsibility are not unprecedented, and have been used with restraint and great benefit in the past. We have not assumed that super strength guarantees super wisdom, and we have consistently reached out to the international community to ensure that our own power and influence are tempered by the best common judgment.

  Jimmy Carter

  Responsibility, Power, Past

  Jimmy Carter (2014). “The Jimmy Carter Library”, p.1025, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the specific powers and responsibilities of the federal government is to secure the borders. Property can be taken with due process of law and just compensation.

  Ted Cruz

  Taken, Responsibility, Government

  "Ted Cruz Puts Dewhurst on Defensive in Last Debate Before Texas Runoff" by Roque Planas, www.foxnews.com. July 18, 2012.

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• Literature for me… tries to heal the harm done by stories. (How much harm? Most of the atrocities of history have been created by stories, e.g., the Jews killed Jesus.) I follow Sartre that the freedom the author claims for herself must be shared with the reader. So that would mean that literature is stories that put themselves at the disposal of readers who want to heal themselves. Their healing power lies in their honesty, the freshness of their vision, the new and unexpected things they show, the increase in power and responsibility they give the reader.

  Geoff Ryman

  Jesus, Honesty, Lying

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• The tendency everywhere in America to concentrate power and responsibility in one man is unmistakable.

  James Bryce

  Wisdom, Responsibility, Men

  James Bryce (1889). “The American Commonwealth”

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