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Quotes About Responsibility

Un médecin consciencieux doit mourir avec le malade s'ils ne peuvent pas guérir ensemble. Le commandant d'un bateau périt avec le bateau, dans les vagues. Il ne lui survit pas.
~ Eugene Ionesco
Når det kommer til stykket, er jeg ikke sikker på om De har moralsk rett til å blande dem i saken. Dessuten tror jeg fremdeles ikke det er noen fare på ferde. Etter min mening er det absurd å gå fra konseptene fordi om noen mennesker har fått lyst til å skifte ham. Det får bli deres egen sak. Det står enhver fritt for.
~ Eugene Ionesco
OLD MAN: Make believe yourself, it's your turn. OLD WOMAN: It's your turn. OLD MAN: Your turn. OLD WOMAN: Your turn OLD MAN: Your turn. OLD WOMAN: Your turn.
~ Eugene Ionesco
Vivons notre vie, soyons heureux. Nous avons le devoir d'être heureux.
~ Eugene Ionesco
I mean supposing we—the self-satisfied, successful members of society—are responsible for the injustice visited upon the heads of our less fortunate "brothers-in­Christ" because of our shameful indifference to it. We see misery all around us and we do not care. We do nothing to prevent it. Are we not then, in part at least, responsible for it? Have you ever thought of that?
~ Eugene O'Neill in Fog 1917
An apology is also an admission of guilt
~ Eula Biss
However we choose to think of the social body, we are each other's environment. Immunity is a shared space--a garden we tend together.
~ Eula Biss
While we routinely call for more vaccine testing, and more human trials, the unspoken assumption is that we do not intend our children to be the subjects of those trials.
~ Eula Biss
LOS REPORTEROS no trabajamos para ser queridos. Es nuestra responsabilidad hacer preguntas duras a los ricos y poderosos
~ Andrew Jennings
Our government sprang from and was made for the people -- not the people for the government. To them it owes an allegiance from them it must derive its courage, strength, and wisdom.
~ Andrew Johnson
This isn't just 'the way things are.' This is the way you made them. This is the result of your choices, your actions. Yours.
~ Andrew Klavan
I'd left them because I'd loved them. Beth and my parents and my friends and my life-my free, American life. I loved them, and if I had a chance to protect them from the people who wanted to destroy them then I had to take that chance even if it meant I would never see them again.
~ Andrew Klavan
There may come a time when even the most peaceful man alive has to fight or else something truly evil will happen
~ Andrew Klavan
And the truth is, there may come a time when even the most peaceful man alive has to fight or else something truly evil will happen.
~ Andrew Klavan
But … why me?" I said. It was the first of the million questions in my mind to come tumbling out of my mouth. "Because there are no more men here," said Magdala. "No fighting men," Tauratanio said. "No fighting men of brave heart and right belief," added Magdala.
~ Andrew Klavan
If God listened to mothers," the rabbi responds severely, "we would all rot away in a bog of security and easy living.
~ Andrew Klavan
Morality is not a one not song. It's a harmony of obligations to man and God.
~ Andrew Klavan
The advantage of possessing a great empire is not to be able to do the evil that one desires, but to do all the good that one possibly can.
~ Andrew Lang
The Bible nowhere says that animals are just made for human use. It does not say that the whole earth is just ours to do with as we like. Neither does it say that God's sole interest is with the human species. We cannot allow such an important and influential book to become the preserve of those who want to exploit animals. The Bible needs to be read, studied, and reclaimed for the animals.
~ Andrew Linzey
While neurological studies have tried to identify components responsible for fear and greed, the impact on finance is less clear.
~ Andrew Lo
A driver is a king on a vinyl bucket-seat throne, changing direction with the turn of a wheel, changing the climate with a flick of the button, changing the music with the switch of a dial.
~ Andrew Malcolm
She really was an excellent host, however many people her family had enslaved and murdered.
~ Andrew Martin
My hope, as always, was that someone else would make the decision for me, absolve me of the little responsibility I had.
~ Andrew Martin
The best thing you can do for the poor is..not be one of them
~ Andrew Matthews