Quotes About Responsibility

Relax, Brandy says, 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 cooperative effort.

parents often rationalized that somehow their kids must have done something to deserve the abuse.

Humankind was a disease. The earth was the body. Climate change was the fever.

They don't ask, How do we stop bullies? Instead those assholes say, How can we get these stupid kids to stop painting bull's-eyes on their foreheads? They put the blame on the victims, not the victimizers.

Here's how we do things in America: We identify a problem, then we promptly ignore it until it's not just biting our ass, but it's already eaten the right cheek and has started on the left.

That's why we gotta do good things now. Make good decisions. Try to move the rudder long before the boat ever gets near the iceberg, right?

Humankind was a disease. The earth was the body.

Democracy is not in need of defense. People are.

Stop abandoning your children. You wouldn't call yourself a runner if you quit every race halfway through. Finishing is a good start. Stop looking for the escape hatch; pretend your work in progress just doesn't have one. 23.

That is an entire box of thermal detonators." "I didn't think they were snow globes." "Can I trust you not to blow us up? You handle those things like a dockworker dropping off a case of potted bantha meat.

You ever think with the way the world is, it's irresponsible to bring a kid into it? It's like, this fucking president and climate change and god, what else? Antibiotics are failing and they say all the bugs are dying and the coral reefs, too. Countries are building up their nuclear arsenals instead of paring them down. I just…shit, a new kid might be a burden on this world, and this world will sure as hell end up a burden on our kid.

Know what happens when you eat shit? Then you're full of shit. And you shit it back out into the world. Shit for shit for shit.

I'm just saying, nobody does anything. And the shootings keep coming. Malls, movie theaters, churches, synagogues, fuckin' everywhere. If the needle didn't move for a bunch of dead elementary schoolkids, it's never gonna move.

That's part of the political job. To give comfort." Not to do the right thing, Benji thought, but to give comfort. Even when it wasn't appropriate to do so. The way the man spoke about Americans with such disregard rankled Benji. Shovel hot dogs. Dump beer. He really did see them as animals to be led around by the nose.

La conducta privada de un hombre no puede ser separada de su conducta pública; son dos caras de una misma moneda.

There are no snares more dangerous than those which lurk under the guise of duty or the name of relationship.

Non nobis solum. OR non nobis solum nati sumus ortusque nostri partem patria vindicat, partem amici (Not for us alone are we born; our country, our friends, have a share in us)

He must protect the lives and interests of the people, appeal to his fellow citizens' patriotic interests, and, in general, set the welfare of the community above his own

It's so much easier to point a finger than to take responsibility yourself, isn't it? Maybe it isn't so simple as this person's fault or that one. Maybe we make up the dance together, as we go along, and no one knows what the result will be.

The most important thing anyone can do is raise their kids well.

Dê uma boa olhada nas suas escolhas antes de culpar metade do mundo pelos seus erros.

There would be a lot fewer of us screwing up the game of life so brilliantly, if there was always a right answer instead of just a best--or even a less bad--answer.

It is what you haven't done that will torment you

For real?' Cassie's eyes glittered, and it occurred to me that all along she'd expected me to stop us. She'd goaded and teased me, made out like I was a wimp; but she also relied on me to keep us safe.