Quotes About Responsibility

Everybody listens to Nobody!

Good things happen, bad things are done..."

Buddhism suits me 'cuz nobody's in charge. Nobody's decidin' for me if I'm good or bad, goin' to heaven or hell. It's just me workin' on my head, you workin' your head, the friggin' Dalai Lama workin' on his head.

But Nita had always seen having a child as selfish. Why bring another soul into this world, she'd say, when there are so many out there that need our help?

Hard work guarantees you nothing. But laziness assures failure. Work hard, or you have only yourself to blame.

We must all act within the choices we are given.

Rules of responsible drug use, he thought. Know your substance before you start. Know your dose. Safe, comfortable setting. He shook his head. They'd struck out on all three of those.

Are you wiser than humanity? Ilya's whispered in his mind, echoing Ananda. Not even you should have that power.

Other people will reverse-engineer the technology. They'll remove the safeguards, or figure out how to build a clone system that doesn't have them. That's how it always works. Once the genie is out of the bottle, you can't control what they do.

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

To let life happen to you is irresponsible. To create your day is your divine right.

Torn pages curl and brown. The flames fly up. In the flickering light a cry. Who will lift the fallen stones? Who will link the broken chain?

You can't have it both ways. You can't tell me that you're taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, 'Bring me home some bacon.' The pig has been picked clean.

We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.

Bad things happen when good people remain silent.

Words. And meaning. You can't own one and not the other.

Parents. Honestly. Sometimes they really do think the world revolves around them.

Most of us know, now, that Rousseau was wrong: that man, when you knock his chains off, sets up the death camps. Soon we shall know everything the 18th century didn't know, and nothing it did, and it will be hard to live with us.

The tags' chain stirs with the wind; and I sleep Paid, dead, and a soldier. Who fights for his own life Loses, loses: I have killed for my world, and am free.

Until America's white ruling class accepts the fact that the book never closes on massive unredressed social wrongs, America can have no future as one people.

At long last, let America contemplate the scope of its enduring human-rights wrong against the whole of a people. Let the vision of blacks not become so blighted from a sunless eternity that we fail to see the staggering breadth of America's crime against us.

Solutions must be tailored to the scope of the crime in a way that would make the victim whole. In this case, the psychic and economic injury is enormous, multidimensional and long-running. Thus must be America's restitution to blacks for the damage done.

As Germany and other interests that profited owed reparations to Jews following the holocaust of Nazi persecution, America and other interests that profited owe reparations to blacks following the holocaust of African slavery which has carried forward from slavery's inception for 350-odd years to the end of U.S. government–embraced racial discrimination–an end that arrived, it would seem, only just yesterday.

Those paid agents who preach others to take Covid vaccines will run away from it if they are asked to take it publicly.