Quotes About Responsibility

A woman who 'acts like a man' - who is bold and assertive, and refuses to defer to male authority - is threatening to a system that makes women responsible for men's feelings.

The Christian is responsible to care for the hurting and the downtrodden, and should not be in the business of creating further pain.

Today's immoral quick fix is tomorrow's gaping and painful wound that never heals.

I recently turned down a film that I didn't want my kids to see. Priorities shift. Sometimes I'm sad about that, but not enough to do anything about it.

If horses can't eat it, I won't play on it.

Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, and politicians. All three need supervision.

When Jann Wenner, the hopelessly liberal founder of Rolling Stone magazine, was interviewing Bob Dylan in 2006, he was told that politicians cannot be counted on to solve problems. To him, the statement seemed absurd. "Who is going to solve them?" Wenner asked, incredulous. Dylan replied, "Our own selves2." He's exactly right. If we want things

THE SECOND MAJOR THEME running through the Tea Party movement is the call for personal responsibility. The founding documents built institutions that allowed for individuals to chase their dreams and be responsible for their own successes and failures. Tea Partiers value equality of opportunity, not equality of outcomes. For us, it is all about the rights of the individual over the collective.

Big government is driven by two audacities: (1) the presumption that people are dumb and don't know what's good for them, (2) people are corrupt and dishonest; therefore it is incumbent upon the government to take money and spend it on citizens' behalf. On the other hand, the Tea Party has trust in the practical genius of the American people to be responsible for making decisions.

There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gathering danger must be directly confronted. At that point, we must show that beyond our resolutions is actual resolve.

Know where your barrel is at all times, and know the condition of your weapon—loaded or unloaded, bolt forward or to the rear, round in the chamber or not, safety on or off. Keep your finger off the trigger unless you're going to kill something. This is basic; you have to do the basics right—we won't move to the next block of training until you get this one right.

There's a saying. If you want someone to love you forever, buy a dog, feed it and keep it around.

There is no need to tell someone how to do his job if you have properly trained your team

I still wore the rank of a 1st lieutenant. But that was okay because I knew my job, my company, the men, and I felt confident that under fire, I had the right answers. Which gets me to the point: I was a "half-breed." An officer yes, but at heart an enlisted man.

My only concern was whether or not I would let my men down once we entered combat. As a fighting company the men were primed and ready to go, and we fully intended that we were either going to win the ensuing battle or be killed.

The whelp went home, and went to bed. If he had had any sense of what he had done that night, and had been less of a whelp and more of a brother, he might have turned short on the road, might have gone down to the ill-smelling river that was dyed black, might have gone to bed in it for good and all, and have curtained his head for ever with its filthy waters.

le mot « sujet » a deux sens en français : c'est à la fois « une subjectivité libre : un centre d'initiatives, auteur et responsable de ses actes », et « un être assujetti, soumis à une autorité supérieure, donc dénué de toute liberté, sauf d'accepter librement sa soumission ». (p. 92)

Chez nous c'est comme les bêtes, et c'est normal : on s'entraide quand on est là, et quand il y a un blessé on l'achève, dans l'intérêt de la communauté.

Kernkraftwerke hinzustellen, ohne zu wissen, wo der Atommüll endlagert werden kann, ist wie das Abziehen einer Handgranate bevor man weiss, wo man sie hinwerfen wird.

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.

It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.

Politics are not the task of a Christian.

Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our Church.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.