Quotes About Responsibility

your own death seemed of complete unimportance; only a thing to be avoided because it would interfere with the performance of your duty.

How should a woman act when she discovers her husband is a bloody coward? She's damn cruel but they're all cruel. They govern, of course, and to govern one has to be cruel sometimes.

on je volio razmišljati o svemu što proživljava a kako nije imao što ?itati niti je imalo radio, mnogo je razmišljao i nastavio je razmišljati i o grijehu. Nisi ti ubio ribu samo da preživiš i da je prodaš na tržnici, pomisli. Ubio si je iz ponosa i zato što si ribar. Volio si je dok je bila živa, i volio si je i poslije toga. Ako je voliš, nije grijeh ubiti je. Ili je možda zato još ve?i grijeh?

The bill always comes

As he had been thinking for months about leaving his wife and had not done it because it would be too cruel to deprive her of himself, her departure was a very healthful shock.

any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde

Quién va a corromperle a usted? ¿Quién corrompe a un joven como usted, que bebe alcohol de quemar, con una botella de Marsala?

I have worked all my life. In all that remains of my life I must work. I have no complaints against work. To work is normal.

Let them all go to hell, except the people, and then, when they come to power, we must be dam cautious to see what they will become.

If every one said orders were impossible to carry out when they were received where would you be? Where would we all be if you just said, Impossible, when orders came?

But you haven't got the boy, he thought. You have only yourself...

Qué va," the boy said. "It is what a man must do." They

Qua Va," the boy said. "It is what a man must do.

Oggi non è che un giorno qualunque di tutti i giorni che verranno. Ma quello che accadrà in tutti gli altri giorni che verranno può dipendere da quello che farai oggi

You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch. Yes. It's sort of what we have instead of God. Some people have God, I said. Quite a lot. He never worked very well with me.

Vaguely he wanted a girl but he did not want to have to work to get her. He would have liked to have a girl but he did not want to have spend a long time getting her. He did not want to get into the intrigue and the politics. He did not want to have to do any courting. He did not want to tell any more lies. It wasn't worth it. He did not want any consequences. He did not want any consequences ever again. He wanted to live along without consequences.

I'm thirty-four, you know. I'm not going to be one of these bitches that ruins children.

it is much easier to be the opposition to a government than to run the government yourself.

Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. -

looked at the tires carefully, looking for cuts or stone bruises. Everything seemed in good condition. It evidently made no difference whether I was there to look after things or not.

We must live with our own conscience. Each and every one of us must live with his own conscience.

like Ned was killed. We made her go and we hired

Me, Mr Wiggins. Me. Me to take the cross. Your cross, Nannan's cross, my own cross. Me, Mr Wiggins. This old stumbling nigger. Y'all axe a lot, Mr Wiggins.

Rousseau created a new responsibility for evil; neither God nor man but human society.