Quotes About Responsibility

For thousands of years, human beings had screwed up and trashed and crapped on this planet, and now history expected me to clean up after everyone. I have to wash out and flatten my soup cans. And account for every drop of used motor oil. And I have to foot the bill for nuclear waste and buried gasoline tanks and landfilled toxic sludge dumped a generation before I was born.

Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be. Every time you don't throw yourself down the stairs, that's a choice. Every time you don't crash your car, you re-enlist.

Hey, you created me! I didn't create some loser alter-ego to make myself feel better. Take some responsibility!

Skin, bones, blood and organs transplant from person to person. Even what's inside you already, the colonies of microbes and bugs that eat your food for you, without them you'd die. Nothing of you is all-the-way yours. All of you is inherited. Whatever you're thinking, a million other folks are thinking. Whatever you do, they're doing, and none of you is responsible. All of you is a cooperative effort.

Every time we burn a gallon of gas or an acre of rain forest, aren't we killing the future to preserve the present?

you can't escape the world, and you're not responsible for how you look, if you look beauticious or butt ugly. you're not responsible for how you feel or what you say or how you act or anything you do. it's all out of your hands.

It only takes one mistake and nothing else you ever do will matter. No matter how hard you work or how smart you become, you'll always be known for that one poor choice.

Isn't a kid alive who doesn't dream about rewarding her folks, or punishing them.

Parenthood is the opiate of the masses.

This isn't about guilt or innocence, he says. The dinosaurs weren't morally good or bad, but they're all dead.

You decide your own level of involvement.

Only when we eat up this planet will God give us another. We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.

I figure if Eve could get us into this mess, I could get us out. After all, God really likes to see a go-getter.

I am trash and shit and crazy to you and this whole fucking world. You don't care where I live or how I feel, or what I eat or how I feed my kids or how I pay the doctor if I get sick, and yes I am stupid ad bored and weak, but I am still your responsibility.

If you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane.

You ever wonder if Adam and Eve were just the puppies God dumped because they wouldn't house-train?

My father never went to college so it was really important I go to college. After college, I called him long distance and said, now what? My dad didn't know. When I got a job and turned twenty-five, long distance, I said, now what? My dad didn't know, so he said, get married. I'm a thirty-year-old boy, and I'm wondering if another woman is really the answer I need.

Griping isn't the same as creating something. Rebelling isn't rebuilding. Ridiculing isn't replacing. We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.

You're training a new employee,' says Mrs. Clark, 'to take over your boring old job.' When you raise a child.

You don't care where I live or how I feel, or what I eat or how I feed my kids or how I pay the doctor if I get sick, and yes I am stupid and bored and weak, but I am still your responsibility.

A baby is such a blank slate, like training the understudy for a role you're planning to leave. You truly hope your replacement will do the play justice, but in secret you want future critics to say you played the character better.

Our humanity isn't measured by how we treat other people, our humanity is measured by how we treat animals.

She says that the problem with passive people is that they force you to take action. After that, they hate you for it. They never forgive you.

At the store, they have one-hundred-percent-recycled toilet paper, Marla says. The worst job in the whole world must be recycling toilet paper.