Quotes About Responsibility

We slough off the responsibility to create ourselves by shrugging and claiming, "That's just the way I am.

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.

The light of revelation does not descend on us perpendicularly from above; it comes through worldly media by the power of God's Spirit, who enlists our participation in the process of responsible interpretation and critical appropriation.

The job of a leader is often to carry the burden of worry and concern alone to spare his followers worry over that which they, as followers, cannot change or influence even if they had all of the discomforting facts.

Promise less than you deliver

Deep within traditional Jewish culture lies the conviction that the only real way to achieve wealth is to attend diligently to the needs of others and to conduct oneself in an honorable and trustworthy fashion.

To remind parents of their flaws, let's define discipline this way: Discipline is the process in which bigger sinners attempt to convince littler sinners to mend their wicked ways.

that the holocaust is so big, the scale of it is so gigantic, so enormous that it becomes easy to think of it as something mechanical. Anonymous. But everything that happened, happened because someone made a decision to pull a trigger, to flip a switch, to close a cattle door, to hide, to betray.

The point I am making is that most of that extra consumption you fear will destroy the planet is not actually going to come from what you can claim to be surplus consumption, the hair gel and the jacuzzis. It will come from the provision of basic services that no one can call over-consumption. And we need to confront those, since they are a lot harder to curb.

Podem ir caçar, mas não se esqueçam de que nossa tradição nos lembra de abater apenas os seres da natureza suficientes para alimentar nosso corpo. Ninguém deve sacrificar um baripnia [parente] por esporte ou por prazer. Cada ser é nosso baripnia e devemos sempre respeitá-lo.

cada ser da natureza, inclusive o homem, precisa compreender que seu lugar na natureza não é ser o senhor, mas um parceiro, alguém que tem a missão de manter o mundo equilibrado, em perfeita harmonia para que o mundo nunca despenque de seu lugar.

Entendi que cada um dos elementos vivos segura uma ponta do fio da vida e o que fere e machuca a Terra, machuca também a todos nós, os filhos da Terra.

But Taft also believed that the citizen who obeys only laws that he endorses "is willing to govern, but not be governed"—willing, in other words, to destroy the rule of law.

Terrorizing you," he proclaimed, "while you are carrying arms on our land, is a legitimate and morally demanded duty.

No one is innocent after the experience of governing. But not everyone is guilty.

Et puis s'accuser tous azimuts, on se met à l'abri de bien des exigences. (p.116)

Che ne dici, tu che sei il prodotto di un lungo interrogativo procreatorio: "E' giusto fare dei figli in un mondo come questo? Il Divino Paranoico merita che si accresca la sua opera? Ho io il diritto di mettere in moto un destino? Non so forse che avviare una vita significa metterle la morte alle calcagna? Cosa valgo io come padre e cosa varrà Julie come madre? Possiamo correre il rischio di assomigliarci?

Dica un po', Malaussène, non è che mi sta sfinendo solo perché sta per diventare papà?" "Sì." "Ecco. Cinquecento milioni di indù sono probabilmente nella sua stessa situazione.

Non vi è peggior crimine del volersi sostituire alla coscienza altrui.

Nous y tournons en rond, généralement plus soucieux de chercher des coupables que de trouver des solutions.

Le bonheur individuel se doit de produire des retombées collectives, faute de quoi, la société n'est qu'un rêve de prédateur.

Autonomy isn't the opposite of accountability - it's the pathway to it.

Only a weak man fails to honor his parents.

No work again today, huh? You should be pounding the pavement instead of playing computer games. At least get some exercise. How do you expect to find a woman if you're all pasty and scrawny? Guess the family name's dying with you. No work again today, huh?