Quotes About Responsibility

Hükümdar ne olursa olsun asla insanlar?n mal?na göz dikmemelidir. Çünkü insanlar babalar?n?n ölümünü kolayl?kla içlerine sindirebilirler, ama mal varl?klar?ndan yoksun kalmalar?n? asla.

A government which does not trust its citizens to be armed is not itself to be trusted.

And above all things, a prince ought to live amongst his people in such a way that no unexpected circumstances, whether of good or evil, shall make him change; because if the necessity for this comes in troubled times, you are too late for harsh measures; and mild ones will not help you, for they will be considered as forced from you, and no one will be under any obligation to you for them.

Princes ought to leave affairs of reproach to the management of others, and keep those of grace in their own hands.

A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.

Dios no quiere hacerlo todo, para no privarnos de nuestro libre albedrío ni quitarnos una parte de la obra que en nuestro bien redundará.

Gdy obywatele potrzebujÄ… rzÄ…du, wtedy ka?dy biegnie, ka?dy przyrzeka i ka?dy gotów, gdy Å›mier? daleko, umrze? za niego (ksiÄ™cia), lecz w czasach burzliwych, kiedy paÅ"stwo potrzebuje obywateli, wtedy znajdzie ich niewielu

A ju? taka natura ludzka, ?e jednakowo zobowi?zuj? ?wiadczone, jak i doznane dobrodziejstwa

Ksi???ta, którzy stracili wÅ'adzÄ™ ksi???cÄ… piastowanÄ… przez nich od wielu lat, niech o to losu nie obwiniajÄ…, lecz wÅ'asnÄ… niezdarno??, albowiem nie pomyÅ›leli w czasach spokojnych, ?e mogÄ… one zmieni? siÄ™ (powszechna to wada ludzi nie pamiÄ™ta? o burzy, gdy morze spokojne)

KiÅŸinin nas?l yaÅŸad??? ve nas?l yaÅŸamas? gerektiÄŸi aras?nda öyle büyük bir uçurum vard?r ki, yap?lmas? gereken uÄŸruna yap?lan? terk eden kiÅŸi, çok geçmeden korunmas?n? deÄŸil, y?k?m?n? öÄŸrenmiÅŸ olur.

Así pasa en las cosas del Estado: los males que nacen en él, cuando se los descubre a tiempo, lo que sólo es dado al hombre sagaz, se los cura pronto; pero ya no tienen remedio cuando, por no haberlos advertido, se los deja crecer hasta el punto de que todo el mundo los ve.

The nature of man is such that people consider themselves put under an obligation as much by the benefits they confer as by those they receive. (p.73)

instead of praying for some new holy man to save you, learn the way to Hell in order to steer clear of it yourself.

My studies in criminology have suggested to me that only generals, Harley Street specialists and mine owners can get away with murder successfully.

A young man who insists that his mother should lay out three separate sets of clothes every morning for him to take his choice at his leisure is unlikely to be popular in any century.

Americans of faith should try as hard to save the lives of African women as the lives of unborn fetuses.

As a society, we denounce delinquents, hoodlums and hooligans, but the truth is that we routinely fail troubled kids before they fail us. More children die each year in the United States from abuse and neglect than from cancer. For every child who dies, thousands are injured, raped or brutally abused. We shrug as millions of children undergo trauma in ways that harm them and unravel our social fabric--and then we blame the kids when things go wrong.

Guilt could be as simple as that. There didn't have to be anything maudlin or self-pitying about it. It was a fact and you lived with the consequences, a kind of contract under which your actions led to inevitable obligations.

And I said well luckily I was mature and old enough to take this success at my age. It was bullshit.

From Plato: "The measure of a man is what he does with power.

You always have a choice. It's just that some people make the wrong one.

What it's like to be a parent: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love.

Emotions come and go and can't be controlled so there's no reason to worry about them. That in the end, people should be judged by their actions since in the end it was actions that defined everyone.

Love doesn't mean anything if you're not willing to make a commitment, and you have to think not only about what you want, but about what he wants. Not just now, but in the future.