Quotes About Responsibility

Perish discretion when it interferes with duty

Jeder Mensch wird gebraucht, nur merkt das leider nicht jeder.

Anlams?zl?k habis bir sözcüktür. En uç a??r?l?klara bile hak tan?yan bir serzeniÅŸi adland?r?r. Bu nedenle tehlikeli de bir sözcüktür. Sadece bir eksiklikliÄŸi ima etmez, ayn? zamanda bir k?s?tlamay?, asli bir ÅŸeyin çal?nd???n? düÅŸündürür, ki bu da bir suçlu aramay? tümüyle hakl? k?lar, eÄŸer ortada bir suç varsa tabii.

There was once a merchant who was so rich that he might have paved the whole street, and a little alley besides, with silver money. But he didn't do it--he knew better how to use his money than that.

Not that she's a political animal, she's just an ordinary woman, but as a woman she's of the view that you don't bring children into the world to have them shot.

I don't want any funny business, and above all I don't want to be dragged into other people's funny business. If it's to be my head on the block, I want to know that it's doing there, and not that it's some stupid things that other people have done.

Imam gospodaricu koju sam dužan da slušam, ona vlada mnom, vama, svetom, ?ak i ovim današnjim svetom napolju, a ta gospodarica je pravda. U nju sam oduvek verovao, verujem i danas, i pravda je jedini putokaz mog postupanja...

it will have helped us to feel that we have behaved decently till the end . . . we all acted alone, we were all caught alone, and every one of us will have to die alone. But that doesn't mean that we are alone, Quangel, or that our deaths will be in vain.

everyone ought to be interested in politics. If we all had been, then maybe the Nazis wouldn't have got their hands on power;

Coffins and coffins, enough for everyone on the shift, enough for everyone in Germany! The men are still alive, but they are already making their own coffins.

Qu'un seul être souffre injustement, et que, pouvant y changer quelque chose, je ne le fasse pas, parce que je suis lâche et que j'aime trop ma tranquillité...

A la inmodestia de su objetivo, que se extravía tanto en lo ecológico como en lo antropológico (comprobable lo primero y filosóficamente mostrable lo segundo), el principio de responsabilidad contrapone una tarea más modesta, decretada por el temor y el respeto: preservar la permanente ambigüedad de la libertad del hombre, que ningún cambio de circunstancias puede jamás abolir, preservar la integridad de su mundo y de su esencia frente a los abusos

que somos nosotros los culpables y que no es culpa nuestra que seamos culpables y que somos culpables por ese mismo hecho y que estamos hartos con ello lo sabemos

To be a child means to owe one's existence to another, and even in our adult life we never quite reach the point where we no longer have to give thanks for being the person we are.

It would be unjust toward children to introduce them to Christian teaching and existence only as little pagans and catechumens, in order to leave it up to them to choose the Faith on their own responsibility at a point in time difficult to determine.

What you are is god's gift to you, What you make of yourself is your gift to god

In fact history does not belong to us but we belong to it.

The Western Powers have accepted a grave responsibility – perhaps for centuries to come – by weakening Germany only to give additional strength to Russia.

You can make excuses or you can get the job done, but you can't do both.

Frankly I'm fairly boring or fairly busy. Between writing and family, I have little time for anything else.

Being a parent is not for the faint of heart. I may joke about knowing fear, but the fact is, the first time I ever knew real fear was the day Charlotte, my first child, was born. Suddenly there is someone in the world you care about more than anything.

When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.

Sure, on a larger scale, it was healthy to have people out there you cared about more than yourself. She knew that. But then there was the abject fear you would lose it. They say possessions own you. Not so. Loved ones own you. You are forever held hostage once you care so much.

Kids don't do what their parents say-they do what they see their parents do. So who was to blame here?