Quotes About Responsibility

Son los políticos que quieren dejar huella y nada más acarrean destrozos.

America is free to choose whether the Negro shall remain her liability or become her opportunity.

It is fair to say that in our quest for modernity we have demonstrated considerable ignorance concerning the impact of our inventions.

When individuals blunder, it is unfortuante and their families go down. When rulers fail, it is a national tragedy

When ordinary human beings err, it is sad, but when leaders do, it haunts us for generations.

Despite the many occasions when its characters feel frustrated before the weight of circumstances, and despite blaming their feeling of impotence on daiva, 'fate', moral autonomy shines through in the epic. Because they have some freedom to choose they can be praised when they follow dharma or blamed when they follow adharma. At the moment of making a decision they become conscious of their freedom, and it is this perception of autonomy that gives them the ability to lead authentic moral lives.

By deceiving Drona, Yudhishthira corrupts his teacher's relationship with the world. So do we every time we lie - we corrupt the 'other' in the same way.

Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone.

Trust cannot be commanded and yet it is also correct that the only one who earns trust is the one who is prepared to grant trust.

The first thing I see is the obligation to serve peace.

One of our most noble political tasks is to open up trust.

A child of my own! Oh, no, no, no! Let my flesh perish with me, and let me not transmit to anyone the boredom and ignominiousness of life.

Are the worst enemies of society those who attack it or those who do not even give themselves the trouble of defending it?

The violence of the feelings of crowds is also increased, especially in heterogeneous crowds, by the absence of all sense of responsibility.

The functions of governments necessarily increase in proportion as the indifference and helplessness of the citizens grow.

The first is that the individual forming part of a group acquires, solely from numerical considerations, a sentiment of invincible power which allows him to' yield to instincts which, had he been alone, he would perforce have kept under restraint. He will be the less disposed to check himself from ±he consideration that, a group being anonymous, and in consequence irresponsible, the sentiment of responsibility which always controls individuals disappears entirely.

Nada hay más delicado ni más temible que las manos de los chiquillos: en ellas el juguete no puede durar mucho.

In any relationship where one person depends on another to be his or her "parachute -- and the other accepts this role -- both will fall to the ground.

Then, rather than trying to change others to suit our needs, our choice would be to simply drop this false idea that someone else is responsible for our fulfillment.

Unless the perfidious wolves have the temerity to disobey the High King's plans, we should meet Shalhassan's forces by the Latham in mid-wood with the wolves between us. If they aren't,' Diarmuid concluded, 'we blame anyone and everything except the plan.

And Shalhassan of Cathal realized in that moment, standing between the fair brother and the dark, that he was not going to lead this war after all.

I didn't ask to be made a princess." This time all three of them laugh, although it is gentle enough. "Who chooses their fate?" It is the third one, the tallest. "Who asks to be born into the times that are theirs?" "Well, who accepts the world only as it comes to them?" she says, too quickly.

Praise be to the Weaver and all the gods!' said Shalhassan of Cathal. 'Finally she's done something adult!

These two, the memories of last autumn, could be addressed later—if she chose. Right now, she had a task, and she could very much use whatever payment they ended up offering.