Angelegenheit / Matter Ausschuss / Committee Behörde / Authority Bezugnahme / Referring Entscheidungen / Decisions Gerät / Device Verantwortung / Responsibility
You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility.
Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.
We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.
The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.
My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.
The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
Responsibility and accountability is a big part of being in the military.
The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another.
