Power Without Responsibility Quotes

#1. There's no greater joy in life than enjoying power without responsibility. - Mukta Prajapati

Tuhin A. Sinha

#2. Man's responsibility, then, is to choose his destination; the motive power to bring him there is furnished by the Infinite.

Neville Goddard

#3. The most important responsibility we have as journalists is to question those who are in power. I honestly believe that.

Jorge Ramos

#4. 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

#5. As parents and as consumers, we have the right and the power to pressure the entertainment industry to respond to our needs. Americans, after all, should insist that every corporate giant - whether it produces chemicals or records - accept responsibility for what it produces.

Tipper Gore

#6. These things were in my mind from the first moment I entered the vocal booth. The gratitude I had for rock and roll as it pulled me through a difficult adolescence. The joy I experienced when I danced. The moral power I gleaned in taking responsibility for one's action.
Patti Smith

Patti Smith

#7. I'M CONFUSED, because I don't know why it's so hard to obey a policeman. You will not win!!! And I don't know why some policeman abuse their power. Power is a responsibility, not a weapon to brandish and lord over the populace.

Benjamin Watson

#8. If you're in your early twenties, don't put so much importance on the money, on the raise. Getting an extra thousand dollars a year is okay, but the real thing is the responsibility and the power and the experience that you're learning.

Robert Greene

#9. In a democratic nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#10. The silent workers get lost in the endless
darkness of the corporate world. Those
who work hard and constantly seek to
be visible to their superiors, those who
showcase their hard work, are the ones who
advance to positions of greater power and
responsibility.

Abhishek Ratna

#11. Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it?

Rollo May

#12. I have observed, on board a steamer, how men and women easily give way to their instinct for flirtation, because water has the power of washing away our sense of responsibility, and those who on land resemble the oak in their firmness behave like floating seaweed when on the sea.

Rabindranath Tagore

#13. I do think women avoid power. Power assumes responsibility and accountability, and I think many, many women want to have it both ways.

Rita Mae Brown

#14. Our responsibility is to learn to draw upon the power of the Atonement. Otherwise, we walk through mortality relying solely on our own strength.

Sheri L. Dew

#15. Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

#16. The victim mindset dilutes the human potential. By not accepting personal responsibility for our circumstances, we greatly reduce our power to change them.

Steve Maraboli

#17. Every woman who has any margin of time or money to spare should adopt some one public interest, some philanthropic undertaking,or some social agitation of reform, and give to that cause whatever time and work she may be able to afford ...

Frances Power Cobbe

#18. As a jazz musician, you have individual power to create the sound. You also have a responsibility to function in the context of other people who have that power also.

Wynton Marsalis

#19. The Internet has the capacity to extend to us genuine choice, and that is not without risk. Real power does entail real responsibility.

Nick Harkaway

#20. I am your servant. You have the right to dismiss me when you please. What you have no right to do is ask me to bear responsibility without the power of action.

Winston Churchill

#21. Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.

Ariel Dorfman

#22. He believed that rank without power was a sham.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#23. There is no power or authority without responsibility, and he who accepts the one cannot escape or evade the other.

Haile Selassie

#24. The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.

Tom Stoppard

#25. Responsibility without power is a really bad deal.

Patrick Califia

#26. leader is great, not because of his or her power, but because of his or her ability to empower others. Success without a successor is failure. A worker's main responsibility is developing others to do the work (see

John C. Maxwell

#27. You must assume full responsibility for choosing to pursue power. Know that you alone have chosen to be tested, and then proceed without doubt, remorse, or blame. You alone are responsible.

Mike Livingston

#28. The power to kill does not come without responsibility

Kenneth Eade

#29. To grant the power of a weapon master to anyone at all, without effort, without training and proof that the lessons have taken hold, is to deny the responsibility that comes with such power.

R.A. Salvatore

#30. Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#31. I learned the power of storytelling and the responsibility that people with influence have to speak out

Demi Lovato

#32. Placing the blame or judgment on someone else leaves you powerless to change your experience; taking responsibility for your beliefs and judgments gives you the power to change them

Byron Katie

#33. We also call upon the king to hand over power to the political parties and for the political parties to shoulder their responsibility and turn the people's demands for democracy and good governance into reality.

Joseph Adam Ereli

#34. We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity.

George Soros

#35. Power breeds responsibilities, in international affairs as in domestic
or even private. To dodge or disclaim these responsibilities is one form of the abuse of power.

Irving Kristol

#36. As human beings we each have a responsibility to care for humanity. Expressing concern for others brings inner strength and deep satisfaction. As social animals, human beings need friendship, but friendship doesn't come from wealth and power, but from showing compassion and concern for others.

Dalai Lama

#37. Implicit in true freedom of spirit lies a proud and virile will. Such glorious power of free will to choose, envisages beneficent social responsibility as manifest and welcome.

Louis Sullivan

#38. The power we hold comes with an added responsibility to inspire through words or actions and build someone else's life. Our power definitely does not lie in zapping others of their powers.

Tina Sequeira

#39. Myron, like countless NCO's before him, had discovered the ideal compromise between power and responsibility.

Arthur C. Clarke

#40. You and I are the creators and benefactors of peace. We must reclaim our own responsibility and right to peace. You have the power to change the direction of humanity towards peace.

Ilchi Lee

#41. Nations not possessing great power can indulge in the luxury of
criticism of others; those possessing it have the responsibility of
decision. Faced with a clear challenge, the decision not to use
one's power must be as deliberate as the decision to use it. The con

Richard M. Nixon

#42. Science has brought us power and ideas but not the wisdom or responsibility to handle them.

Peter J. Carroll

#43. The reality is that the media are probably the most powerful of all our institutions today and they, or rather we, too often are squandering our power and ignoring our obligations. The consequence of our abdication of responsibility is the ugly spectacle of idiot culture!

Carl Bernstein

#44. Smaller government, more individual responsibility, more individual control creates more Republicans. More state power and ownership and control and top-down decision-making creates more Democrats.

Grover Norquist

#45. Enlightenment requires discipline, balance, knowledge, power, happiness and a sense of responsibility and sacrifice, being able to do things with your life that you would not have done otherwise.

Frederick Lenz

#46. Man sometimes thinks he's been elevated to be the controller, the ruler, but he's not. He's only part of the whole. Man's job is not to exploit, but to oversee, to be a steward. Man has responsibility, not power.

Oren Lyons

#47. How we live our lives gives those we love permission to do the same. That is a power and a responsibility that we can never take lightly.

Hal Elrod

#48. Go to any hospital, you'll find wards that are run by senior nurses with matrons. The point is do they have the power, do they have the responsibility inside the hospital?

Andrew Lansley

#49. We have come to this earth upon a mission ... that we may have power to go forth and warn the nations of the earth ... As elders of Israel, very few of us fully comprehend our position, our calling, our relationship to God, our responsibility, or work the Lord requires at our hands

G. Homer Durham

#50. Power-over is amoral. Power-to is responsibility.

Gloria Feldt

#51. In my generation, there was a single girl given the strength and skill to fight the spread of darkness ... but in your generation, there are nearly two thousand with the powers of the slayer, and not all of them have chosen to use their newfound abilities conscientiously.

Joss Whedon

#52. Power, no matter what kind of power it is, without a foundation in truth, is a dictatorship, more or less and in one way or another, for it is always based on man's fear of the social responsibility and personal burden that "freedom" entails.

Wilhelm Reich

#53. In truth, a State whose society is not sovereign is no sovereign State at all. Such is the case when a society has no chance to decide the common good, and when it has been denied the basic right to share in power and responsibility

Pope John Paul II

#54. The education of the individual, in addition to promoting his own innate abilities, would attempt to develop in him a sense of responsibility for his fellow men in place of the glorification of power and success in our present society.

Albert Einstein

#55. It is a sad reflection ... that a sense of responsibility which comes with power is the rarest of things.

Alexander Crummell

#56. I'll confess that I don't watch the Olympics, but you'd have to be living under a rock to be unaware of the corruption and the expense. An amorphous organization with no transparency, unclear lines of responsibility, huge amounts of politics and a great deal of unearned power.

Seth Godin

#57. We should be miserable but for the consciousness that we have done all in our power to help forward every measure for the freedom and equality of the races and the sexes.

Susan B. Anthony

#58. DJs play a big responsibility of what hip-hop is doing ... At the end of the day, it's up to us to control and to own hip-hop. DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.

Nas