Quotes About Responsibility

Followers must have leaders, and this means that before much can be done with the church membership something will have to be done with the church officials.

His concern was not with programs to reach the multitudes, but with men whom the multitudes would follow.

I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.

Duty is the sublimest word in the language. You can never do more than your duty. You should never wish to do less.

Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more. You should never wish to do less.

You must be careful how you walk, and where you go, for there are those following you who will set their feet where yours are set.

Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.

There is a true glory and a true honor: the glory of duty done--the honor of the integrity of principle.

Cadets can neither be treated as schoolboys or soldiers.

I can not trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

Whenever you employ your ego to identify yourself as the doer of an action, that action becomes a karma for you.

Soon it will be a sin for parents to have a child which carries the heavy burden of genetic disease.

Experienced cave divers are fond of pointing out to the public that caves do not kill divers, divers do.

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Recent scholarship confirms the portrait of John F. Kennedy sketched by his brother in Thirteen Days: a remarkably cool, thoughtful, nonhysterical, self-possessed leader, aware of the weight of decision, incisive in his questions, firm in his judgment, always in charge, steering his advisers perseveringly in the direction he wanted to go. "We are only now coming to understand the role he played in it," writes John Lewis Gaddis, the premier historian of the Cold War.

But the greatest danger of all would be to do nothing.

Mithorden: 'We become what we do, Zalos.

It is the curse of the powerful to be blind to their own faults.

Othalas: Chosen don't choose themselves!

Vanye: You're asking me to kill you. Luthiel: I'm asking you to save her.

The reason for not going out and sinning all you like is the same as the reason for not going out and putting your nose in a slicing machine: it's dumb, stupid, and no fun.

Nunca nos deshacemos de algo que nosotros mismos hemos creado. Sólo podemos abrazarlo como algo nuestro y no sentirnos mal por tenerlo ?respondió Merlín.

En los años siguientes, los dirigentes estadounidenses y británicos negarían su responsabilidad en el multitudinario levantamiento iraquí que alentaron. En el norte de Iraq, decenas de miles de kurdos ya se habían sublevado contra sus opresores y —olvidando las traiciones de los estadounidenses— esperaban con ansia la ayuda de los aliados.

8.000 soldados iraquíes habían sido enterrados vivos en sus trincheras por las excavadoras y arados montados sobre los tanques de la división de infantería motorizada estadounidense,6 el breve momento de compasión que esto generó seguramente tuvo más que ver con la conciencia culpable por la pasividad occidental para con los insurgentes iraquíes que con la enorme pérdida de vidas humanas que representaba.