Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [321-340] of 1002 Responsibility quotesResponsibility QuotesResponsibility Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. ... Freedom and slavery are mental states. Therefore, the first thing to say to yourself: 'I shall no longer accept the role of a slave. I shall not obey orders as such but shall disobey them when they are in conflict with my conscience'.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi An eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi Men ... should do their actual living and working in communities ... small enough to permit of genuine self-government and the assumption of personal responsibilities, federated into larger units in such a way that the temptation to abuse great power should not arise. The larger (structurally) a democracy grows, the less becomes the rule of the people and the smaller is the say of individuals and localised groups in dealing with their own destinies. Moreover, love and affection, are essentially personal relationships. Consequently, it is only in small groups that Charity, in the Pauline sense of the word, can manifest itself. Needless to say, the smallness of the group, in no way guarantees the emergence of Charity. In a large undifferentiated group, the possibility does not even exist, for the simple reason that most of its members cannot, in the nature of things, have personal relations with one another.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi Good government is the most dangerous government, because it deprives people of the need to look after themselves.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.~ James A. Garfield Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.~ Robbie Gass My dear sir, let me tell you that every citizen has full legal right to arrest anyone whom he sees committing any criminal offense, big or little. The law of England and of this country has been very careful to confer no more right in that respect upon policemen and constables than it confers on every citizen. You have the same right to make an arrest for an offense committed in your presence that any policeman has. But we cannot all be bothering with making arrests, so we employ a certain number of our fellow citizens for that purpose and put blue clothes and brass buttons on them. But their clothes and their buttons add nothing whatever to their right to make arrests without warrant. They still have only the same right which the law gives to all of us. Be so good as to look at section 183 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, and be convinced of your powers, and then sail right in as hard and as fast as you want to, being careful, however, only to arrest guilty persons, for otherwise your victims will turn around and sue you for damages for false arrest. Policemen have to face the same risk.~ William Jay Gaynor Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.~ David Lloyd George Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.~ Anne Louise Germaine de Stael In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all - security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.~ Edward Gibbon If it’s a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed.~ Khalil Gibran One man can completely change the character of a country, and the industry of its people, by dropping a single seed in fertile soil.~ John C. Gifford The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility.~ William Godwin Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print