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Quotes About Responsibility

While a few men seek to justify their existence by assuming the burden of childcare, or material provisioning, the same is not true of many lower creatures, human or otherwise, where the males quite literally just fuck off.
~ Nick Lane
Sucede siempre que las armas ajenas o se caen de los hombros del príncipe, o le pesan, o le oprimen.
~ Nicolás Maquiavelo
Perhaps that is what it means to be a father-to teach your child to live without you.
~ Nicole Krauss
The malpractice for advice-giving is like five times as much as a craniotomy.
~ Nicole Krauss
She abandoned the garden, and the mums and asters that had trusted her to see them through to the first frost hung their waterlogged heads.
~ Nicole Krauss
You could tell he had too much wisdom for his age. Probably he believed that he wasn't made for this world. I wanted to say to him: If not you, who?
~ Nicole Krauss
And then I thought: perhaps that is what it means to be a father- to teach your child to live without you. If so no one was a greater father than I.
~ Nicole Krauss
And then I thought: Perhaps that is what it means to be a father—to teach your child to live without you.
~ Nicole Krauss
Perhaps that is what it means to be a father--to teach your child to live without you. If so, no one was a greater father than I.
~ Nicole Krauss
But in the end, it isn't up to the writer to decide how his or her work will be used.
~ Nicole Krauss
No one should ever allow himself to fall down in the belief that someone else will lift him to his feet because it will not happen; or if it does happen it will not prove to his advantage.
~ Nicollo Machiavelli
Everything has contributed to your greatness. You must do the rest.
~ Nicoló Machiavelli
And I thought -- when you're a half-hour late, and your friends think you're in jail, it's probably a sign you steal too much.
~ Nigel Davis
Plato thought that letting the people vote was like letting the passengers steer a ship – far better to let people who knew what they were doing take charge.
~ Nigel Warburton
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~ Nigel Warburton
people say, "I didn't ask to be born," I think we did, and that's why we're here. We are here, and we have to do something nurturing that we respect before we go. We must. It is more interesting, more complicated, more intellectually demanding and more morally demanding to love somebody, to take care of somebody, to make one other person feel good.
~ Nikki Giovanni
Poems are not advertisements braying For the good life They have serious work to do Birthing people burying people Celebrating joy mourning loss
~ Nikki Giovanni
some say we are responsible for those we love others know we are responsible for those who love us
~ Nikki Giovanni
I don't think I'm allowed to kill something because I am frightened.
~ Nikki Giovanni
Poems have serious business to do They need to bring down presidents who Start wars they themselves wouldn't go to
~ Nikki Giovanni
and sometimes on rainy nights you see an old white woman who maybe you'd really care about except that you're a young Black woman whose job it is to kill maim or seriously make her question the validity of her existence
~ Nikki Giovanni
We've got to live in the real world. If we don't like the world we're living in, change it. And if we can't change it, we change ourselves. We can do something.
~ Nikki Giovanni
These young folks say they can't leave home without their American Express, but nowadays I can't leave home without my pistol. I ain't used it in a while but I've been itching to.
~ Nikki Turner
and led me to finally recognise that I was but an automaton devoid of free will in thought and action and merely responsible to the forces of the environment.
~ Nikola Tesla