Quotes About Responsibility

It's the little things that find us out, the little things we refuse to do in order to avoid doing the big things that can save us.

I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And I defend because in spite of it all, I find that I love.

All dreamers and sleepwalkers must pay the price, and even the invisible victim is responsible for the fate of all.

I can hear you say, What a horrible, irresponsible bastard! And you're right. I leap to agree with you. I am one of the most irresponsible beings that ever lived. Irresponsibility is part of my invisibility; any way you face it, it is a denial. But to whom can I be responsible, and why should I be, when you refuse to see me? And wait until I reveal how truly irresponsible I am. Responsibility rests upon recognition, and recognition is a form of agreement.

He was a cop. A good citizen. But this cop had an itching finger and an eager ear for a word that rhymed with 'trigger,' and when Clifton fell he had found it. The Police Special spoke its lines and the rhyme was completed. Just look around you. Look at what he made, look inside you and feel his awful power. It was perfectly natural. The blood ran like blood in a comic-book killing, on a comic-book street in a comic-book town on a comic-book day in a comic-book world.

But to whom can I be responsible, and why should I be, when you refuse to see me?

Responsibility rests upon recognition, and recognition is a form of agreement.

I didn't want to be trouble to anyone," I said. "Everybody has to be trouble to somebody.

I was to be a justifier, my task would be to deny the unpredictable human element of all Harlem so that they could ignore it when it in any way interfered with their plans.

We mean to do right by you, but you've got to know your place at all times.

Would you like to resurrect God to take responsibility?" He shook his head. "No, Brother, we have to make such decisions ourselves.

Irresponsibility is part of my invisibility; any way you face it, it is a denial. But to whom can I be responsible, and why should I be, when you refuse to see me?

All our work had been very little, no great change had been made. And it was all my fault. I'd been so fascinated by the motion that I'd forgotten to measure what it was bringing forth. I'd been asleep, dreaming.

Irresponsibility is part of my invisibility; any way you face it, it is a denial. But to whom can I be responsible, and why should I be, when you refuse to see me? And wait until I reveal how truly irresponsible I am. Responsibility rests upon recognition, and recognition is a form of agreement.

Play the game, but don't believe in it—that much you owe yourself.

And he'll learn that his index and second fingers are meant for something other than playing the game of stink-finger and pulling his bow.

Be your own father, young man

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.

So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth whispers, 'I can.

You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.

Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.

Things are in the saddle, And ride mankind.