Quotes About Responsibility

Hitler'cilerin milyonlarca in?am öldürmelerinden sonra, kalkm?? onlar? as?yorsun. Milyonlar? öldürmelerinden önce neredeydin peki, o vakit ne dü?ünüyordun? Düzinelerle ceset oturup dü?ünmen için yeterli neden de?il miydi? ?nsanl???n?n k?p?rdanmas? için milyonlarca ceset mi gerekliydi?

Ba?l?l??? "duygusall?k" ya da "küçük-burjuva al??kanl???" olarak nitelendiriyorsun; ba?ar?lara kar?? sayg?l? olmay?ysa kölece bir el etek öpme say?yorsun. Sayg?s?zl?k göstermen gereken yerde el etek öptü?ünden, ba?l?l?k göstermen gereken yerde nankörlük etti?inden haberin bile yok.

Birçok aç?dan, hala döneminizdesinizdir. Hala bir arkada??n?z? aray?p gevezelik edebilirsiniz. Münasip görünen bir özrü dilemek için hala vakit vard?r. "Kar??l???nda bir ?ey vermek" ve te?ekkür etmek hala mümkündür hatta belki de zaman?d?r — her kime verecek, her ne için edecekseniz.

Our presence is not inherently evil and undesirable; it just has to be at the right scale, speed, and design. We can be an expression of biodiversity as worthy as any other species with whom we have co-evolved; we have a place and a vibrant role to play in ecosystems. It is our wild excess of procreation, ill-considered consumption priorities, and unbridled frenzy of activity that drowns the possibilities and existence of individuals from other species. That is where we have gone wrong.

A friend is like anything else. A dog, a plant. You ignore them and they tend to die on you.

Either you like Henry VIII or you don't. He has been much criticized for beheading two of his wives. In a way, he has only himself to blame. Any man who beheads fwo of his wives musf expect a little talk. He shouldn't have done it, but you know how those things are. As a matter of fact, Henry merely let the law take its course, but some people feel that a really thoughtful husband would have done something about it

A nation has no conscience. How can it be aroused? A eunuch in bed with a doll is not disturbed.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

It is wrong to blame anyone for failing to forecast accurately in an unpredictable world. However, it seems fair to blame professionals for believing they can succeed in an impossible task. Claims

If the content of a screen saver on an irrelevant computer can affect your willingness to help strangers without your being aware of it, how free are you?

Many parents have discovered, perhaps with some guilt, that they can read a story to a child while thinking of something else.

individuals feel relieved of responsibility when they know that others have heard the same request for help.

Freedom has a cost, which is borne by individuals who make bad choices, and by a society that feels obligated to help them.

Tetlock also found that experts resisted admitting that they had been wrong, and when they were compelled to admit error, they had a large collection of excuses: they had been wrong only in their timing, an unforeseeable event had intervened, or they had been wrong but for the right reasons.

I smiled and said nothing. But I thought, "Well, I took it away from you this morning. If your success was due mostly to chance, how much credit are you entitled to take for it?

Hindsight is especially unkind to decision makers who act as agents for others—physicians, financial advisers, third-base coaches, CEOs, social workers, diplomats, politicians. We are prone to blame decision makers for good decisions that worked out badly and to give them too little credit for successful moves that appear obvious only after the fact. There is a clear outcome bias. When

In such cases, the greatest responsibility for avoiding the planning fallacy lies with the decision makers who approve the plan. If they do not recognize the need for an outside view, they commit a planning fallacy.

The same bias contributes to the common observation that many members of a collaborative team feel they have done more than their share and also feel that the others are not adequately grateful for their individual contributions.

the leaders of enterprises who make unsound bets do not do so because they are betting with other people's money. On the contrary, they take greater risks when they personally have more at stake.

Which is better, to cover the earth with a carpet or to put on shoes?

The federal debt in this country is principally of Republican design.

According to Sartre, we are historically prone to thinking of ourselves as objects due to the Judeo-Christian credo that God stamped us with our essence from the get-go; it is His prerogative. So to think that we are able to stamp ourselves is a sacrilege. But the main reason we keep ducking the responsibility of self-creation is that it is super scary. If I am the master of my fate and my fate does not turn out so well, I have no one to blame but myself.

If a person did not have free will, how could he be held accountable for the bad things he did?

Greene: "It's not reasonable to expect actual humans to put aside nearly everything they love for the sake of the greater good. Speaking for myself, I spend money on my children that would be better spent on distant starving children, and I have no intention of stopping. After all, I'm only human! But I'd rather be a human who knows that he's a hypocrite, and who tries to be less so, than one who mistakes his species-typical moral limitations for ideal values.