150+ Social Responsibility Slogans and Quotes That Make an Impact

Each individual has a social obligation to preserve a balance between economic growth and environmental impact. This is the premise of social responsibility (SR) or corporate social responsibility (CSR). Social responsibility applies not only to businesses, but as well as to anyone whose behaviors have an effect on the environment.

To encourage more people to act in the best interest of the environment, check out these social responsibility slogans and quotes that make a positive difference.

Social Responsibility Slogans

Let’s create a brighter future for our kids.

• Always Thinking About Tomorrow.
• Change Everything.
• It’s About Saving And Protecting.
• Because It’s The Better Way.
• A Clean Healthy Planet For Everyone.
• Smart People Choose Sustainably.
• Our Priority Is A Cleaner And Safer World.
• A Global Perspective.
• A Clean Desire For The Earth.
• A Passion For Sustainability.
• Innovation And Integrity.
• Towards Integration With Sustainability.
• Let’s Work Together To Uplift The Society.
• Embrace The Right Choices.
• The Choice Of The Brave.
• Society’s Interest Over Self-Interest.
• Society Is The Priority.
• The Voice Of Responsibility.
• Great Ideas Start With Responsibility.

Corporate Social Responsibility Slogans

• Profit Is Nothing Without Social Responsibility.
• Be Responsible When You Are Profitable.
• Best Social Responsibility Solutions.
• Where Is Your Responsibility?
• The Corporations Of Tomorrow.
• Paying It Forward.
• There Is No Better Satisfaction Than Being Socially Responsible.
• Beyond Profits.
• Taking Care Of The Community First.
• Profits Shared With Responsibility.
• Equality In Responsibility.
• Partnering With The Community.
• Community Prosperity Is Our Obligation.
• Working Together With The Community.
• The Key To Success.
• Little. Different. Responsible.
• A Sense Of Social Obligation.
• Think Corporate. Think Responsible.
• Working For A Better Tomorrow.

Social Responsibility Quotes

“I believe social responsibility begins with a strong, competitive company. Only a healthy enterprise can improve and enrich the lives of people and their communities.” – Jack Welch

“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Be the compromise you want to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“Have absolutely no sense of guilt about being happy and successful if you operate honestly and with a sense of social responsibility.” – Norman Vincent Peale

“We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.” – Pearl S. Buck

“The world howls for social justice, but when it comes to social responsibility, you sometimes can even hear crickets chirping.” – Dean Koontz

“Businesses must reconnect company success with social progress. Shared value is not social responsibility, philanthropy, or even sustainability, but a new way to achieve economic success. It is not on the margin of what companies do but at the center. We believe that it can give rise to the next major transformation of business thinking.” – Michael Porter

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“We, as humans, have actually developed a sense of social responsibility. We have gone beyond our basic instincts.” – Jane Goodall

“The business of business should not be about money. It should be about responsibility. It should be about public good, not private greed” – Anita Roddick
“Successful people have a social responsibility to make the world a better place and not just take from it.” – Carrie Underwood

“There is one and only one social responsibility of business – to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.” – Milton Friedman

“Without restoring an ethos of social responsibility, there can be no meaningful and sustained economic recovery.” – Jeffrey Sachs

“Ethics is the new competitive environment” – Peter Robinson

“Through their own actions, customers can hold companies responsible to higher standards of social responsibility. Through collective action, they can leverage their dollars to combat the force of those investors who myopically pursue profits at the expense of the rest of society.” – Simon Mainwaring

We only have one planet.

“I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other.” – Chris Patten

“Despite their good intentions, today’s businesses are missing an opportunity to integrate social responsibility and day-to-day business objectives – to do good and make money simultaneously.” – Cindy Gallop

“A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.” – A. Bartlett Giamatti

“It’s absolutely essential for every generation to capture that social responsibility. Injustice grows like weeds. The injustices of the world are like weeds, and if you do nothing they’ll choke your whole garden, man.” – Luis Valdez

“I’ve got a problem with the word charity because I think that NGOs, as I prefer calling them, really do take the work of moral and social responsibilities that ought to be taken on by governments.” – Emma Thompson

Social Responsibility Quotes for Students

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” – William James

“The world is hugged by the faithful arms of volunteers.” – Terri Guillemets

“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them”. – Dalai Lama

“Ants are good citizens: they place group interests first.” – Clarence Day

“We need to help younger people recognize their own capacity to do good, and help them discover the rewards of generosity.” – Bill Clinton

“Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.” – Audrey Hepburn

“Make it a point to do something every day that you don’t want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.” – Mark Twain

“The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.” – Helen Keller

“I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.” – Maya Angelou

“I want you to be concerned about your next-door neighbor. Do you know your next-door neighbor?” – Mother Teresa

“The time is always right to do what is right” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Winners take responsibility. Losers blame others.” – Brit Hume

“The price of greatness is responsibility.” – Winston Churchill

“Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home… it’s your responsibility to love it, or change it.” – Chuck Palahniuk

“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept responsibility for changing them.” – Denis Waitley

“It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible but also for what we do not do.” – Moliere

“Leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.” – Mitt Romney

“Nothing will ever change while you point the finger of blame. Out of responsibility comes possibility.” – Lisa Villa Prosen

“Every right implies a responsibility, every opportunity, an obligation, every possession, a duty.” – John D. Rockefeller

Environmental Responsibility Quotes

“Economic dynamism can be combined with environmental and social responsibility. High financial returns can go hand in hand with respect for human rights, and the preservation of the planet’s natural resources” – David Miliband

“It is our collective and individual responsibility to preserve and tend to the environment in which we all live.” – Dalai Lama

“As we pursue our strategies worldwide, we accept social and environmental responsibility as well. These responsibilities include the promotion of a sustainable economy and recognition of the accountability we have to the economies, environments, and communities where we do business around the world.” – John F. Smith, Jr.

“The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it’s all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it.” – Mike Huckabee

“Despite one or two minority appeals our society is not outraged at man’s ongoing use of the animal world. Ecologists and environmentalists may talk of “ecological consciousness” or “environmental responsibility” but seldom, if ever, is this responsibility articulated towards other non-human species in particular.” – Andrew Linzey

“More and more companies are reaching out to their suppliers and contractors to work jointly on issues of sustainability, environmental responsibility, ethics, and compliance.” – Simon Mainwaring

“You go into a community and they will vote 80 percent to 20 percent in favor of a tougher Clean Air Act, but if you ask them to devote 20 minutes a year to having their car emissions inspected, they will vote 80 to 20 against it. We are a long way in this country from taking individual responsibility for the environmental problem.” – William Ruckelshaus

Collaborate on ways to improve social responsibility.

“We have a responsibility toward the other life-forms of our planet whose continued existence is threatened by the thoughtless behavior of our own human species. . . . Environmental responsibility – for if there is no God, then, obviously, it is up to us to put things right.” – Jane Goodall

“A building that has great environmental responsibility is a political animal in a way because it becomes promotional of a cause. I think that kind of advocacy through architecture is really good.” – Antoine Predock

“The earth is what we all have in common.” – Wendell Berry

“Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.” – Stewart Udall

“If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live.” – Albert Einstein

“You cannot protect the environment unless you empower people, you inform them, and you help them understand that these resources are their own, that they must protect them.” – Wangari Maathai

“The single biggest threat to our planet is the destruction of habitat and along the way loss of precious wildlife. We need to reach a balance where people, habitat, and wildlife can co-exist – if we don’t everyone loses … one day.” – Steve Irwin

“A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

“[The movement to address climate change is] about something deeper than [justice], it’s about solidarity. Human solidarity.” – Bill McKibben

“Earth is what we all have in common.” – Wendell Berry

“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree long ago.” – Warren Buffett

“The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.” – Robert Swan

Social Responsibility Message Examples

“Corporate social responsibility is a hard-edged business decision. Not because it is a nice thing to do or because people are forcing us to do it… because it is good for our business” – Niall Fitzerald, Former CEO, Unilever

“We know that the profitable growth of our company depends on the economic, environmental, and social sustainability of our communities across the world. And we know it is in our best interests to contribute to the sustainability of those communities.” – Travis Engen, CEO, Alcan

“Ethics is the new competitive environment” – Peter Robinson, CEO of Mountain Equipment Co-op

“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.” – Benjamin Franklin

“It is not good enough to do what the law says. We need to be at the forefront of these [social responsibility] issues.” – Anders Dahlvig, CEO of IKEA, quoted in Financial Times.

“In terms of power and influence, you can forget about the church, forget politics. There is no more powerful institution in society than business… The business of business should not be about money, it should be about responsibility. It should be about public good, not private greed.” – Anita Roddick, Business as Usual

“Companies that are breaking the mold are moving beyond corporate social responsibility to social innovation. These companies are the vanguard of the new paradigm. They view community needs as opportunities to develop ideas and demonstrate business technologies, to find and serve new markets, and to solve long-standing business problems.” – Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business Review.

“Stakeholders want companies to make a profit, but not at the expense of their staff and the wider community.” – Brian Gosschalk, CEO, MORI, quoted in Financial Times.

“Corporate social responsibility is not just about managing, reducing, and avoiding risk, it is about creating opportunities, generating improved performance, making money, and leaving the risks far behind.” – Sunil Misser, Head of Global Sustainability Practice, PwC

Forming a corporate social responsibility program at work.

“People are going to want, and be able, to find out about the citizenship of a brand, whether it is doing the right things socially, economically and environmentally.” – Mike Clasper President of Business Development, Proctor and Gamble (Europe)

“The brands that will be big in the future will be those that tap into the social changes that are taking place.” – Sir Michael Perry, Chairman of Centrica PLC

“Business has a responsibility beyond its basic responsibility to its shareholders; a responsibility to a broader constituency that includes its key stakeholders: customers, employees, NGOs, government – the people of the communities in which it operates.” – Courtney Pratt, Former CEO Toronto Hydro.

“Not long ago the concerns of ecologists were as irrelevant to business planners as those of ethicists are today. “Green” has gone from being a disparagement to becoming a badge that no smart company would risk being without. Ethics are similarly en route to becoming a strategic imperative.” – John Dalla Costa, Ethical Imperative

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“Campaigns against corporations have led them to take greater care that their goods are not produced under unacceptable working conditions for starvation wages. All of us, by the decisions we make about how we live and work and travel and consume help to shape an environment. To think and act morally, to do what is right because it is right, to influence others; it begins to create a climate of opinion; good like evil, is infectious.” – Rabbi Jonathon Sacks (The Dignity of Difference)

“In my view, the successful companies of the future will be those that integrate business and employees’ personal values. The best people want to do work that contributes to society with a company whose values they share, where their actions count and their views matter .” – Jeroen van der Veer, Committee of Managing Directors (Shell)

“Our consumers are very sensitive to social and environmental issues… We have actively engaged with them on these issues in the last ten years, and they have become very aware as consumers. They especially ask for information on environmental policies, workers’ rights, and product safety .” – Walter Dondi, Director of Co-op Adriatica (Italy’s largest retailer)

“The proportion of a company’s total market value that exceeds its book value has increased from 40% in the early 1980s to over 80% at the end of the 1990s. This means that only 20% of a company’s value is reflected in the accounting system… [thus the largest portion of a company’s economic activities] can easily be overlooked.” – Jurgen H. Daum in his book Intangible Assets and Value Creation

“Greater transparency is an unstoppable force. It is the product of growing demands from everybody with an interest in any corporation – its stakeholder web – and of rapid technological change, above all the spread of the Internet, that makes it far easier for firms to supply information, and harder for them to keep secrets. Firms now know that their internal emails may one day become public knowledge, for instance, and many big companies must coexist with independent websites where employees can meet anonymously to air their grievances. With greater transparency will come greater accountability and better corporate behavior. Rather than engage in futile resistance to it, firms should actively embrace transparency and rethink their values and generally get in better shape.” – Don Tapscott, co-author The Naked Corporation

Social Media Responsibility Slogans

• Post Responsibly.
• Look For Solutions Towards Real World Problems.
• Being An Influencer Comes With Great Responsibility.
• Responsible Social Media For A Better Future.
• Post Facts Not Disinformation.
• Spreading Fake News Decimates Society Advancement.
• Historical Revisionism Would Never Prosper.
• Accountability At The Tip Of Your Fingers.
• Raise Awareness, Not Falseness.
• Everything We Do Is Driven By Social Media, So Use It Wisely.
• Researching And Learning Is Not Time Consuming.
• Uphold The Truth, Not The Lies.
• Responsibility The Only Way To Go.
• Create Harmony, Not Animosity.
• Let’s Exist In A Well-Informed World.
• What Makes You A Hero?
• Spreading Disinformation Is Never A Work Of A Decent Person.
• Better Accurate Than Change The Narrative.
• Our Voice For Global Prosperity.

Social Responsibility Taglines

• The Responsibility Community.
• Make Our World Sustainable.
• Making It Right For The Greater Number.
• The Better Solution.
• Be The Solution, Not The Problem.
• Creating A Better Tomorrow, Today.
• Social Responsibility Is Always The Right Choice!
• A Passion For Sustainability.
• Think Of The Next Generation, Now.
• Sustainable Is Attainable.
• We Are All Important To The Planet, So Let’s Save For The Next Generation.
• Inspiring People To Do Better Today.
• Let Us Be An Inspiration, Not A Failure To The Next Generation.
• Our Priority Is To Protect Our Environment.
• A Journey Through The Joy Of Service.
• Responsibility The Only Solution.
• Reimagine The World Today.
• Start Today.
• Make The Change This Moment.

Four Examples of Social Responsibility

There are several advantages to incorporating social responsibility programs into a firm, from increasing efficiency to attracting top personnel. Furthermore, it helps you to boost the general reputation of your company, which can lead attracting more customers. Since moving ahead with a social responsibility program can be costly, carefully considering which initiative is best for your business.

A sustainable coffee business.

Customers want to do business with companies that are ethical. Here are four different forms of social responsibility and examples on how they are implemented in a business.

Economic Responsibility

When a company acts responsibly, it prioritizes doing good over maximizing profit. One way a corporation can demonstrate economic responsibility is through a fair compensation system that appropriately rewards each employee and eliminates historical pay disparities based on gender or ethnicity.

Ethical Responsibility

Becoming ethically responsible implies the company follows fairness in the workplace across the board. This might include handling all personnel, shareholders, and consumers fairly and respectfully. It also means supporting employees from a variety of background including LGBTQ+ and African American communities.

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One way to provide ethical responsibility is by establishing a minimum wage increase and providing benefits like child care services and flexible schedules that allows diverse communities to thrive within your organization.

Environmental Responsibility

It is critical for firms devoted to social responsibility to collaborate in environmentally friendly initiatives. Companies can contribute significantly to carbon emissions, pollution, waste, and depletion of natural resources, and by pledging environmental responsibility, a company takes responsibility for its ecological impact.

Environmental responsibility could take many various shapes depending on the size and industry of a company. For some businesses, this involves utilizing alternative energy sources and environmentally friendly materials. Others could implement an organization-wide recycling policy or donate to and engage with local environmental organizations.

Philanthropic Responsibility

Businesses are practically expected to give back to the areas in which they operate and contribute to initiatives that correspond with the company’s goals in today’s society. Companies are fulfilling their philanthropic obligations whenever they do this. In other words, these companies make money and then give back some of their revenues to non-profit organizations.

Such philanthropic commitment might range from supporting a regional nonprofit’s yearly fundraiser to giving a portion of a company’s yearly earnings to a worthy cause like fighting hunger.

Autonomously, by preventing socially destructive acts, through participating in activities that enhance societal goals, one could be socially responsible. Since activities of one generation carry ramifications for subsequent generations, social responsibility must be intergenerational.