Quotes About Responsibility

Try and understand your parents, Karl. You owe us at least that much. I know you're angry. You feel wounded. You think that Helge and I were obsessed with the Idea, that it finally imploded, and this has made you suspicious of all ideas. And yet you know full well that our Idea was not the DDR. You can make many criticisms of Marx, but to hold him responsible for our so-called socialist experiences is unfair.

Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yellow jelly.

The artist without social responsibility who provokes anger instead of dialogue threatens the field of discourse itself.

Your enemy is not the refugee. Your enemy is the one who made him a refugee.

it is important to recognize the power of our emotions--and to take responsibility for them by creating a light and positive atmosphere around ourselves. This attitude of joy that we create helps alleviate states of hopelessness, loneliness, and despair. Our relationships with others thus naturally improve, and little by little the whole of society becomes more positive and balanced.

Politics is a delicate business. I understand that well. But if a party is not willing to stand up for what is right, does it deserve to win back control of the government?

I have made a special point of leading a life free from reproof. It's been tedious in the extreme and, as a result, I shouldn't be left to deal with someone else's mess.

So ethical conduct, practicing a moral life, is not something that can effectively be enforced from the outside but must grow out of a subjective understanding of what helps and what harms others.

look at the company you work for and see what effect they are having on the environment and the people in that environment; see what damage is being done. Even if we personally are not doing anything wrong, if our livelihood is based on something even slightly harmful, subconsciously something happens. That mental state will always disturb our mind.

we are bound tightly by our past actions, the effects of which are inescapable.

The girl wondered: These policemen... didn't they have families, too? Didn't they have children? Children they went home to? How could they treat children this way? Were they told to do so, or did they act this way naturally? Were they in fact machines, not human beings? She looked closely at them. They seemed of flesh and bone. They were men. She couldn't understand.

She bent her chin to her chest. She mumbled something I did not catch. It sounded like, "Shame on us all for not having stopped it.

If that type of bad God did exist, then we could go on living in good health. If we could push the responsibility for our misery onto God, then we would have that much more peace of mind, wouldn't we?

Life's a bitch. This is true. But she's my bitch.

When it comes to the president, we have to respect him, we have to protect him, and we have to correct him. And in my career, since he'd been on the national stage at least, I've had - I've always respected the president.

If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.

The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.

White America has told Doc: We have created a space for you. We have allowed you to be the leader of your people for your cause. We have become comfortable seeing you in this space. This space has resulted in your receiving a Nobel Peace Prize. But that leadership and prize do not allow you to address issues outside your space.

If you lose it every time he tries to come clean, you're encouraging him to lie.

He's your father, but first he is a man. A man is just a man, and that's all we have to wok with.

There are too many loose ends in the world in need of knots. You can't attend to all of them, but you have to try.

But a man who is a father to a daughter is different from one who is a father to a son. One is the left shoe and the other is the right. They are the same but not interchangeable.

I indulged you since you were a little girl, so you think every day is supposed to be the weekend.

Yes means yes and no means no, but what is the meaning of silence?