Quotes About Responsibility

La ciudadanía mexicana quiere un Estado que cumpla con una enorme cantidad de compromisos públicos, pero no está dispuesta a pagar en impuestos lo que espera que su gobierno le devuelva en servicios. Tiene suspendido el vínculo fundamental que hay entre pagar impuestos y exigir cuentas al gobierno. Exige pero no paga y paga sin exigir.

El gobierno estableció una idea de lo público donde nada cuesta y nadie rinde cuentas, donde las finanzas del gobierno son un bien de todos que viene de ninguna parte, y nadie tiene que cuidarlo, y todos pueden meterle mano cuando les toca.

Golborne is up to this point in his career a Stanford and Northwestern alumnus with a stellar corporate résumé, but he's never been someone who's had to think of himself as a man of the people. He's never had to make the concerns of the poor his own, and he's never known what it's like to be the public servant of people who want him to be strong and who are deeply suspicious of him at the same time.

We are criminals and we do not know how to express or prove that we are criminals. The problem is that if, as criminals, we were recognized as such, we would have to pay for the crime. Yet if we paid, the crime would disappear and our debt would be wiped out. We must keep our crime in order to keep our crime safe, to avoid the terrible fate of being forgiven.

The happiest thing that can be said about democracy... is that it is one of the few systems that has been willing to risk a long period of confusion and mixed purposes for the sake of giving man a chance to grow up in mind and responsibility.

He actually knows what has to be done and how to do it, and he's going right ahead and doing it, without holding a dozen conferences and round-table discussions and giving everybody a fair and equal chance to foul things up for him. You know as well as I do that that's undemocratic.

Everything has to be at once for six-month-old puppies, six-year-old children, and reformers of any age.

It takes an awful lot of people, working together at an awful lot of jobs, to keep a civilization running.

We don't let dogs snap at us. And when they do, we don't kick them, we shoot them!

a man killed committing a felony--and bombing and arson ought to qualify for that--is simply bought and paid for; his blood is on nobody's head but his own.

An unwatched pot boils immediately.

If you leave your wife and you don't ever contact her again, that says something about how you felt about the marriage.

Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.

If we do not end war — war will end us. Everybody says that, millions of people believe it, and nobody does anything.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

A time will come when a politician who has wilfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with mens lives should not stake their own.

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

Give people a second chance, but not a third.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

You can't hire someone to practice for you.

Instruction for life: Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. When you lose, don't lose the lesson. Follow the three R's: - Respect for self. - Respect for others. - Responsibility for all your actions. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.

Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.