Quotes About Responsibility

Least I feel as if I'm doing something. Making shells, like. Least I'm not just sitting on my bum while them boys get shot to bits over there.

Number Ten Downing Street." "Oh, good lord!" "No, I would say the Right Honourable Gentleman has never been that good, not with the mess this country's in

That's the trouble with people—they cherish their comforts, but they don't want to know where they come from.

La grandeur du peuple juif, c'est justement d'apporter aux autres, même si les autres ne veulent pas entendre - c'est tikkun olam même pour ceux qui ne veulent pas entendre. [youtube, watch?v=jlVMft1jtiE]

When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself

If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.

The Ethical can therefore end up making us irresponsible.

Everyone must assume their own death, that is to say, the one thing in the world that no one else can either give or take: therein resides freedom and responsibility.

Infinite responsibility, therefore, no rest allowed for any form of good conscience.

In the proper sense of the word, religion exists once the secret of the sacred, orgiastic, or demonic mystery has been, if not destroyed, at least integrated, and finally subjected to the sphere of responsibility.

responsibility itself must cohabit with frivolity, this need not be cause for gloom.

If man--if each one of us--abdicates his responsibilities with regard to values; if each one of us limits himself to leading a trivial existence in a technological civilization, with greater adaptation and increasing success as his sole objectives; if we do not even consider the possibility of making a stand against these determinants, then everything will happen as I have described it, and the determinates will be transformed into inevitabilities.

Some of these islanders dutifully recited for us their ancient law: "Take no more from the sea in one day than there are people in your village. If you observe this rule, the bonito will run well again tomorrow.

We only protect what we love, we only love what we understand, and we only understand what we are taught.

It is possible - indeed, it is likely - that, unless there is a great change in the near future, disaster will follow. And it will be a disaster of which man himself will be not only the perpetrator, but also one of the victims. - p 46

Yes, the life of an adult entails accepting and in some way being responsible for pain.

wherever a human being goes, there is a challenge. Be the best man you can, and your gods will look with favor upon you.

When you are a citizen, the earth feels different.

STEED: But in a presidential crisis I expect him to be presidential.

The relationship of a man to his land is never easy. It is perhaps the noblest relationship in the world, after the family, and certainly the most rewarding.

Rabbi Akiba said: Israel must not be like the pagans, thanking their wooden gods when good happens and cursing them when evil comes. When good comes, the Jews thank God, and when evil comes, they thank Him too.

the more committed a family becomes to a given project, the more vulnerable it also becomes.

then it occurred to him that a worthy man dedicates himself not to one particular thing which attracts him, but to all tasks; and he

I have no hope that the white man can ever say something and mean it, because we never deal with the same white man. One makes the treaty, and he goes. Another comes, but he never heard of the treaty. With us it is different. When the calumet passes, every Arapaho now and to be born is bound.