Quotes About Responsibility

Although he is a soft touch for any cause that helps lift up needy people or perpetuate democracy, he believes that the "tithe" he gives—nearly half of his earnings—is the least anyone should give who is "blessed to live in a great democracy.

You don't ever hear anyone talking about childing, do you?" "There should be a word like childing," says Lauren. "Children give birth to parents. There wouldn't be parents without children. Not only that, children raise parents. My mom and dad all the time tell me how they learn important lessons in life from me. They

If you honestly feel you have done something so terrible that you cannot be forgiven, then I am willing to share your sins with you. When we die, if we should have to stand before God and be judged, then I will tell him I am as much to blame as you and that half your punishment should be portioned out to me.

People are responsible for their actions, but not the fruits of their actions. Always do what you think is right, but don't worry if good does not always come from what you do.

Then you should have never been born

And there they were being so responsible, practicing safe sex and all. She'd been a fool to believe all that hype, she thought. The only hundred percent safe sex was between Barbie and Ken, and she'd heard rumors that they weren't doing it anymore.

On the other hand, if love did not mature it could lead to bondage, to jealousy. If you loved someone, but felt possessive of them, you could end up treating them like an object that belonged to you. Just as bad, with your children, if you showered them with too much love, and never disciplined them, they would grow up weak and spoiled. At times, love had to be tough, or it could end up wrecking those dearest to you.

He cries, "Please! I don't want to die." I lean over. My hair smothers him. "Then you should never have been born," I say.

I must recognise that in the same situation, I could have been either a killer or an evader... What I do not accept, however, are the old clichés that to explain is to excuse, to understand is to forgive. Explaining is not excusing; understanding is not forgiving.

This story of ordinary men is not the story of all men. The reserve policemen faced choices, and most of them committed terrible deeds. But those who killed cannot be absolved by the notion that anyone in the same situation would have done as they did. For even among them, some refused to kill and others stopped killing. Human responsibility is ultimately an individual matter.

No chance to step out was given to those who did not feel up to shooting; no one systematically excused those who were visibly too shaken to continue. Everyone assigned to the firing squads took his turn as ordered. Therefore, those who shoot did not have to live with the clear awareness that what they had done had been avoidable.

German industry's unprecedented exploitation of slave labor became a crucial element of the Holocaust.

It is essential to identify and condemn the deeds that contribute to genocide, particularly when such deeds have assumed a mantle of respectability, and to ensure just and evenhanded punishment for those responsible. But the temptation will be to accept the inducements and rationalizations society offers in exchange for keeping one's mouth shut. The choice is in our hands.

If action against state-sponsored atrocities was to be based on the conscience of mankind, who was to judge what that conscience might be, and on what basis?

It takes patience and a calm environment. It takes strength and stamina. It takes respect and kindness. It takes responsibility and discipline. It takes attention and keen observation. It takes time and practice—a lot of doing it wrong before you get it right. And it takes listening to your own intuition. Notice how often

Finally, I said, "No!" rather sharply. His mum looked at me in horror. "We don't say no to George, Tracy." "Well, ducky," I said, "maybe it's time you started. I can't very well let him come round here to destroy things my girls know enough not to touch. Besides, this isn't George's fault—it's yours, because you haven't taught him what's his and what's yours.

Whenever your baby wakes in the middle of the night, for whatever reason, never be too playful or friendly. Be loving, take care of the problem, but be careful not to give your baby the wrong idea. Otherwise, she might wake up the next night wanting to play.

You will be a mum until the day you draw your last breath.

I just can't get over how much babies cry. I really had no idea what I was getting into. To tell you the truth, I thought it would be more like getting a cat. —Anne Lamott in Operating Instructions

For example, I recommend to parents who carry their infants around in order to get them to sleep that they try doing that for half an hour with a twenty-pound sack of potatoes. Is that what you want to be doing a few months from now?

Adam did not become magically more cooperative. He was still manipulative and tested his parents, but now at least his parents were taking the lead, instead of following their child.

By signing up for the project you agreed to do whatever was necessary for success.

We can spend sixty-eight thousand dollars per TB patient in New York City, but if you start giving watches or radios to patients here, suddenly the international health community jumps on you for creating nonsustainable projects.

There are some things you just do because it's the right thing to do. And the outcome is out of my hands or in somebody else's hands. I want to believe there's value in that. You're doing everything you can for the patient, but you're not deluding yourself into thinking that what you do isn't worth doing because the person is going to die anyway.