Quotes About Responsibility

Once you start fighting in a war, of course, you are immediately complicit in a form of mass murder.

Sin embargo, cuando en el 2000 el Senado francés propuso reconocer el genocidio armenio de 1915, el secretario general del Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores respondió con una declaración que podría haber sido emitida por la embajada turca. Loïc Hennekinne dijo que ésa no era tarea del parlamento y que la historia «debía ser interpretada por los historiadores».

Journalism can be lethal

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.

The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.

At a certain level of wealth, you care more about things like the environment and what's going to happen to later generations than preserving your own money.

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

The land was ours before we were the land's.She was our land more than a hundred yearsBefore we were her people.

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleepAnd miles to go before I sleep.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

These woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.

The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

Think what a better world it would be if we all-the whole world-had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess. And it is still true, no matter how old you are-when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.

The market, like the Lord, helps those who help themselves," Buffett says. "But unlike the Lord, the market does not forgive those who know not what they do.

Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power.

If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.

In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.

The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and his fellow men.