Responsibility

Examples

• Social responsibility for the use of time and personal capacity is more generally recognized than it used to be. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Virtue is free, and as a man honours or dishonours her he will have more or less of her; the responsibility is with the chooser--God is justified. Plato. The Republic.
• Among the most important are directness, open-mindedness, single-mindedness (or whole-heartedness), and responsibility. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Intellectual responsibility means severe standards in this regard. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• If he could but graft the girl on to some tree of utterance before he died, he would have fulfilled his responsibility. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• It was lynch law of a kind; but in view of the responsibility, this action of the conductor lay well within his rights and duties. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I wash my hands of the dinner party, and since you have asked Laurie on your own responsibility, you may just take care of him. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Our out-of-door life easily threw one in my way, and I delicately said that there was a responsibility in encouraging Richard. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Mr. Blake declared that he would assume the whole responsibility with the greatest pleasure. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Had Canby been in other engagements afterwards, he would, I have no doubt, have advanced without any fear arising from a sense of the responsibility. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The one on whom all responsibility rests is apt to endure the most. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Responsibility, my dear Miss Summerson? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It was a profound observation when Bernard Shaw said that men dread liberty because of the bewildering responsibility it imposes and the uncommon alertness it demands. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• You shall take the whole responsibility of this discreditable settlement on your own shoulders before I leave the room. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Hence, if any one in his presence had presumed to doubt the responsibility of the Lammles, he would have been mightily huffed. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Life, however, was yet in my possession, with all its requirements, and pains, and responsibilities. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Well, then, I would assume the responsibilities of one. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• What is to be prepared for is, of course, the responsibilities and privileges of adult life. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Him Arthur now showed, with pains and care, the state of their gains and losses, responsibilities and prospects. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• When I had got all my responsibilities down upon my list, I compared each with the bill, and ticked it off. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Here, as well as on the march up, his restlessness, particularly under responsibilities, showed itself. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• My worst responsibilities, so far as she was concerned, were all over when she was secured in the Asylum. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• My mother was rather small, in fact too small to be allowed the responsibilities of maternity, as our chieftains breed principally for size. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• You have talked a great deal about our responsibilities in educating, Cousin. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• There never was a man like him for laying on himself burdens greater than he can bearvoluntarily incurring needless responsibilities. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I would, therefore, defer to him as much as is consistent with your own responsibilities. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Knowing me thoroughly now--all my antecedents, all my responsibilities--having long known my faults, can you and I still be friends? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I wouldn't go into that, said Wemmick, evasively, it might clash with official responsibilities. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.

Typist: Marcus