Quotes About Responsibility

For he who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power, and he who takes up a greater amount; not having deposited it, is wholly unjust.

Creo que las mujeres sostienen al mundo en vilo, para que no se desbarajuste mientras los hombres tratan de empujar la historia. Al final uno se pregunta cuál de las dos cosas será la menos sensata

Los países africanos se mueren de hambre, en efecto, pero no por obra del Banco Mundial, sino de bárbaros dictadorzuelos que comparten las tesis tercermundistas del señor [Pierre] Galand, precisamente porque ellas suministran una coartada, desviando la atención popular de su propia deshonestidad, rapacidad e incompetencia y echándoles la culpa a otros de los males provocados por ellos.

This expression of ours, "Father of a family."

The smallest evil if neglected, will reach the greatest proportions.

The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.

As Plato says: 'People cannot be good leaders, unless they have first been good servants.

Lycurgus did not regard sons as the peculiar property of their fathers, but rather as the common property of the state

Men, whither is your course taking you, who give all possible attention to the acquiring of money but give small thought to your sons to whom ye are to leave it?

The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.

But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.

The errors of the policeman were no greater or careless or more egregious than mine. It's just that my mistakes had comparatively little consequence.

You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once.

And what could my father possibly want with another child, when he hardly bothered to talk to the one he already had?

Help your children to see and notice poverty and differences in privilege that seem inhumane and unfair. Do this in a way that does not increase guilt or shame for what you have as a family, but rather helps them see their responsibility for sharing with others and keeping others in mind.

Awareness of the existence of oneself leads to a crisis in which one's being-in-the-world is fundamentally questioned. One's existence, however, is not simply denied. Instead, one faces the basic fact that one is responsible for one's relations to all humans and other beings through one's acts.

There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible, as the conscious that dwells in the heart of every man.

They want the centurions not so much to be venturesome and daredevils, as to be natural leaders, of a steady and reliable spirit. They do not so much want men who will initiate attacks and open the battle, but men who will hold their ground when beaten and hard-pressed, and will be ready to die at their posts.

Greek statesmen, if entrusted with a single talent, though protected by ten checking-clerks, as many seals and twice as many witnesses, yet cannot be induced to keep faith; whereas among the Romans, in their magistracies and embassies, men have the handling of a great amount of money, and yet from pure respect for their oath keep their faith intact.

T]he best analogy for the Athenian democracy is a ship without a captain. On such a ship, the crew do their duty outstandingly well as long as fear of the open sea or the threat of a storm induces them to cooperate with one another and obey the helmsman. But when there is no cause for alarm, they start to ignore their superiors and to fall out with one another.

If, on occasion, the knowledge brought by science leads to an unhappy end, this is not to the discredit of science but is rather an indication of an imperfect ability to use wisely the gifts placed within our hands.

Dear young people: What will you leave to the next generation? Are you building your lives on firm foundations? Are you living in a way that opens a space for the Spirit in the midst of a world that wants to forget God, or even rejects him in the name of a falsely-conceived freedom? How are you using the gifts you have been given, the 'power' that the Holy Spirit is even now prepared to release within you?

...Men and women were created to be jointly the guarantee of the future of the humanity not only a physical guarantee, but also a moral one.

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.