Quotes About Responsibility

How do we always get into these messes?" Minho asked. "At least we used to be able to blame everything on WICKED." "Yeah, well, we still can." Thomas murmured. Minho grinned. "Good. Those shuck-faces.

I hated the place, Tommy. I hated every second of every day. And it was all … your … fault!

THE MANDATE OF CREATION is a source both of glory and of shame for the Christian community.

I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.

Take it easy driving– the life you save may be mine.

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

One of the most important responsibilities in the Christian life is to care about others, smile at them, and be a friend to the friendless.

These brass hats have one great advantage in their favor. If we listen to them, and do what they want us to do, none of us will be alive later to tell them that they were wrong.

I think if you have to pay for your education, you worry very seriously about you're going to do when you've got your degree.

When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren't important.

We are no more qualified to be the stewards or developers of the Earth than are goats to be gardeners.

This false belief that we own the Earth, or are its stewards, allow us to pay lip service to environmental to environmental policies and programmes but to continue with business as usual.

It sounds good to try to save the planet, but in reality we are not thinking of saving Gaia, we are thinking of saving the Earth for us, or for our nation.

it would take the Earth more than a thousand years to recover from the damage we have already done,

We as a civilization are all too much like someone addicted to a drug that will kill if continued and kill if suddenly withdrawn.

We are like passengers on a large aircraft crossing the Atlantic Ocean who suddenly realize just how much carbon dioxide their plane is adding to the already overburdened air. It would hardly help if they asked the captain to turn off the engines and let the plane travel like a glider by wind power alone. We cannot turn off our energy-intensive, fossil-fuel-powered civilization without crashing; we need the soft landing of a powered descent.

If you have not learned wisdom and prudence in the use of "unrighteous mammon," how can you be trusted with the more enduring riches?

You can't divorce religious belief and public service ... I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

You have given me a great responsibility to stay close to you, to be worthy of you and to exemplify what you are.

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

PFC Robert Van Dyke IV (age 21) of Delphos, Ohio, was the driver of the second vehicle.

Many people are caught in a knot of self-destructive behavior and are unable to see it or appreciate how they themselves have tied it. Each believes the problems lie somewhere "out there," surrounding them but beyond them, rooted in external circumstances. They also believe that the solutions to their problems are "out there" too—the right man, the perfect woman, a more appreciative boss, a more interesting job, the right diet.

Is it justice to make evil, and then punish for it?

Advice is not a gift, but a debt that the old owe to the young.