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Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.

Everybody has to be responsible for their own actions - and if they do something wrong, I believe in paying for it.

If you're going to give people authority and hold them responsible and ultimately accountable for their performance, you've got to get out of the way.

Authority is mainly a moral power; therefore, it must first call upon the conscience, that is, upon the duty that each person has to contribute willingly to the common good.

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

I think people have to take responsibility for their own actions.

If everyone is to be made responsible for everything they do, you must extend responsibility beyond the level of conscious intention.

Some of us are better at owning the responsibility of our actions than others.

I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.