Quotes About Responsibility

I... would not expect that freedom could be found or won without a price paid.

If this is truly the time that will decide, we have no business refusing people who feel the way we do. No right to decide that they must huddle in their homes waiting to see if they are still slaves or not when the summer ends.

You'd never killed anyone. Then you had.

We aren't heroes if we lead men into battles we will lose.

Lin Kuo himself would have said that his legacy was his daughter. Or no. He'd have believed that, but never voiced the thought, for fear of putting a burden of such weight upon her shoulders, which would be an improper thing to do to anyone, let alone a child so dearly loved from the beginning of her days to the end of his.

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes reminded us, it is a 'less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part.

Without the freedom to make 'mistakes', people cannot learn to take control of their lives successfully.

She had thought freedom meant simply the chance to have her own way, with no need to take the consequences of having had it. Well, she knew better now. Life was not a lot of golden adventures that cost you nothing.

that no kindly providence was going to save you from the results of what you did, and that you had better be sure of your own strength because you could never be sure of anybody else's.

Growing up means learning to be responsible for others—and embracing the great joys those responsibilities can bring. Homer taught me that building my life around someone other than myself, making myself responsible for someone else's life, is one of the most rewarding differences between being a kid and being an adult.

humans tend to blame cats for things that aren't really the cat's fault.

My priorities are always going to be my husband and my family now. That's a huge, huge thing.

It's superfun being a mom, but it's hard too.

Being a mom is hard, I think a lot of working moms feel that way.

When you first have a baby your life doesn't change. I mean, you have a little less sleep and you drag these cuddly things around you and it's just amazing. But you still get to be you. Once they get to, like, five, six and school and it starts to get, like, 'Wow, they got real problems. They're my responsibility.' Oh my God. That is overwhelming.

That time we all heard it, cool and clear, cutting across the hot grit of the day. The major Voice. The adult Voice forgoing Rolling River, forgoing tearful tale of bale and barge and other symptoms of an old despond. Warning, in music-words devout and large, that we are each other's harvest: we are each other's business: we are each other's magnitude and bond.

Small Mabel whimpered all night long, For calling herself the cause. Her oak-eyed mother did no thing But change the bloody gauze.

Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.

Abortions will not let you forget.You remember the children you got that you did not get.

A veces la culpa quiere que aquel a quien se castiga decida su propia condena. Y no es infrecuente que el amor herido quiera ser herido de más.

Los gobiernos estatales son los responsables, por ejemplo, de que en México sólo se castiguen en promedio cinco de cada 100 homicidios dolosos, pues la persecución de los homicidios no es una facultad federal, sino local.

La ilusión de que el dinero público puede pagar la democracia debe ser revisada radicalmente. La sociedad toda debe pagar por su democracia, no sólo el erario público.

Todos somos de algún modo clientes y víctimas del Estado deficitario. No queremos pagar lo que cuesta nuestro gobierno. Por eso tenemos un Estado en quiebra que, a la larga, simplemente nos cuesta más.

Pero ¿quién decide si las leyes son justas? Nadie, cada quien. Millones de mexicanos se erigen todos los días en jueces de cuáles leyes deben o no obedecer.