Quotes About Responsibility

Octavo, aunque Trump y los nativistas de todo el mundo busquen culpar a otros —los inmigrantes y los malos acuerdos comerciales—

Just as Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib have eroded America's moral authority, so the Bush administration's fiscal housekeeping has eroded our economic authority.

experiments show that bankers—especially when they are reminded that they are bankers—act in a more dishonest and selfish way.50 They are shaped by their profession

Someone's lobbing a grenade in your direction; it's not tennis any longer. Point is, honey, you do what you have to do. To stay safe. To keep your family safe. I love the law like my grandma loved scripture. You and I both swore to uphold the law. But a suicide pact we did not agree to. Am I clear?

The mind does not belong to you, but you are responsible for it.

All beings are the heirs of their own karma. Their happiness or unhappiness depends on their actions, not upon my wishes.

The second unwholesome action to avoid is stealing—taking that which doesn't belong to us.

No deed is good that one regrets having done.

the only things that can be said to truly belong to us are our actions and their results;

the results of our actions follow us like a shadow, or, to use an ancient image, like the wheel of the oxcart following the foot of the ox.

One thing you need to remember and understand is that you cannot leave the mind alone. It needs to be watched constantly. If you do not look after your garden it will overgrow with weeds. If you do not watch your mind, defilements will grow and multiply. The mind does not belong to you, but you are responsible for it.

I'm not running away from my responsibilities. I'm running to them. There's nothing negative about running away to save my life.

Someone had to do something sometime. Every victim was a culprit, every culprit a victim, and somebody had to stand up sometime to try to break the lousy chain of inherited habit that was imperiling them all.

Now you've given them hope, and they're unhappy. So the blame is all yours.

Darling, we're going to have a baby again,' she would say to her husband. I haven't the time,' Lieutenant Scheisskopf would grumble petulantly. 'Don't you know there's a parade going on?

You know, one good apple can spoil the rest," Colonel Korn concluded with conscious irony.

Help him! Help who? Help the bombardier! I'm a bombardier. Help him, help him! Help who?

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.

I'm not running away from my responsibilities. I'm running to them. There's nothing negative about running away to save my life.

I will give you intelligence, submitted the Creator, enough knowledge to destroy everything on earth, but you will have to use it. Done! said our ancestor and that was our Genesis.

Sure, there's a catch," Doc Daneeka replied. "Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy.

I only raped her once," he explained. Yossarian was aghast. "But you killed her, Aarfy! You killed her!" "Oh, I had to do that after I raped her," Aarfy replied in his most condescending manner.

Colonel Cathcart had courage and never hesitated to volunteer his men for any target available.

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