Quotes About Responsibility

Is the programming on such an ear-button receiver of a caliber to enable a man to be a gyroscope, both taking from and giving to society, beautifully balanced?

Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquents.' 'So that's what I am.' 'There's some of it in all of us.

What will you do when the Law of God comes in terror; when the trumpet of the archangel shall tear you from your grave; when the eyes of God shall burn their way into your guilty soul; when the great books shall be opened and all your shame and sin shall be published? Can you stand against an angry Law in that day? A

We each need to look into eternity and then ask ourselves what we are offering this generation."-Ray Comfort

The function of the society is to cultivate the individual. It is not the function of the individual to support society.

You have to have a feeling for where you are. You've got only one life to live, and you don't have to live it for six people. Pay attention to it.

Chief Seattle: "The Earth does not belong to Man; Man belongs to the Earth."6

Men act badly sometimes without being much worse than others

There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportunities, the pleasures! But the fact remains that you must touch your reward with clean hands, lest it turn to dead leaves, to thorns, in your grasp.

You take a different view of your actions when you come to understand, when you are made to understand every day that your existence is necessary - you see, absolutely necessary - to another person.

The belief in a super natural sources of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

And there's another thing: a man should stand up to his bad luck, to his mistakes, to his conscience and all that sort of thing. Why--what else would you have to fight against.

I believe in children praying--well, women, too, but I rather think God expects men to be more self-reliant. I don't hold with a man everlastingly bothering the Almighty with his silly troubles.

After all, for a seaman, to scrape the bottom of the thing that's supposed to float all the time under his care is the unpardonable sin. No one may know of it, but you never forget the thump—eh? A blow on the very heart. You remember it, you dream of it, you wake up at night and think of it—years after—and go hot and cold all over.

The sea—this truth must be confessed—has no generosity. No display of manly qualities—courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness—has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.

The world rests upon the poor . . . .

I had to keep a lookout for the signs of dead wood we could cut up in the night for next day's steaming. When you have to attend to things of that sort, to the mere incidents of the surface, the reality—the reality, I tell you—fades.

Mr. Verloc, going out in the morning, left his shop nominally in charge of his brother-in-law.

One rule holds good of most young men—whether rich or poor. They never have money for the necessaries of life, but they have always money to spare for their caprices—an anomaly which finds its explanation in their youth and in the almost frantic eagerness with which youth grasps at pleasure.

things are wanted for the work of the world. To tear treasure out of the bowels of the land was their desire, with no more moral purpose at the back of it than there is in burglars breaking into a safe. Who paid the expenses of the noble enterprise I don't know; but the uncle of our manager was leader of that lot.

All a man can betray is his conscience.

the western front on armistice morning, the commanders of seven judged the war essentially over upon receiving word of the signing and stopped; but the commanders of nine divisions decided that the war must go on until the last minute, with predictable results to the lives entrusted to them.

Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country

culpar a otros —los inmigrantes y los malos acuerdos comerciales— de nuestros apuros, y especialmente los de quienes sufren a causa de la desindustrialización, la culpa la tenemos nosotros: podríamos haber gestionado mejor la globalización y el proceso de cambio tecnológico, de manera que al perder su empleo la mayoría de los individuos obtuviera uno nuevo en otro frente.