Quotes About Responsibility

Todas las acciones están sujetas a órdenes», «Nunca hay que robar al pueblo», «Jamás seas egoísta o injusto»;

Cierra la puerta cuando salgas de la casa», «Enrolla la esterilla en la que has dormido», «Sé educado», «Sé honrado en tus transacciones», «Devuelve lo que pidas prestado», «Repón lo que rompas», «No te bañes en presencia de mujeres», «No rebusques sin autorización en los bolsillos de tus detenidos».

Reading about Shelley and Byron I get awfully fed up, realizing that these men never did a day's work in their lives; they lived off the system, were free to travel all around Europe with entourages if necessary, never wrote about a guy earning a living. That is not the world I knew, that is not the world I want to be a part of, and by and large it's not a world I'm interested in. How

Never have I met a person doing terrible things who would meet my own eyes peacefully. To gaze into another person's face is to do two things: to recognize their humanity, and to assert your own.

My wife was out and I was home alone with Emma when my mother called. She said, "Oh, so you're babysitting?" As politely as I could manage, I answered, "I call it fathering." She realized immediately what she had said and apologized. I realized that when she was a child, and again as a mother of young children, father's active involvement with their infants was so minimal that it could fairly be called baby-sitting.

In the words of John Updike, who often writes about the alienation of husbands and fathers, "If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money." Obviously Updike was making an understatement; fathering takes more than just being on speaking terms with our children.

Excessive freedom is no less a flight from difficulty than is an overarching order.

Every once in a while I don't think it's a bad idea for lawyers to remember that what goes on, at least on some level of our brains, is that we have to imagine everything coming apart. ... It's what we are. Out of control, always prepared, Boy Scout control freaks.

you choose to believe what you want, and you choose to do what you do. First comes life, then comes law. You are still responsible. You cannot hide behind anything. Since when does religious tradition permit you to short-circuit any morally uncomfortable decision?

Assume full responsibility for the dream. For "through the dream the man makes the matter his own; it is in his will, and he is responsible for it."19

If anything occurs that causes your price to go down, it's a self-inflicted wound.

It is easy to lose ourselves in corporate imperatives, to feel we are beholden to forces that might not be aligned with our personal aspirations and priorities, or with how we wish to give expression to our lives.

Jorl had said he would take responsibility for his son's education. Arlo hadn't reflected on what that meant; what an historian's sensibilities would do to the keen edge of his son's hunger for learning.

Evils that befall the world are not nearly so often caused by bad men as they are by good men who are silent when an opinion must be voiced.

In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car.

DISEASES HAVE A history of stirring up conspiracies. Jews were held responsible for the Black Plague in the fourteenth century, and they were massacred in hundreds of European cities, including two thousand Jews burned alive in Strasbourg, France, on Valentine's Day, 1349.

How inadequate we are in our attempts to bring nature under our control, Henry thought. How careless of us to believe that we can manipulate diseases to kill, rather than to cure. We're like schoolchildren playing with matches. One day we'll burn the house down.

As our Governments spin, lie and lose their credibility, the electorate simply shrugs and looks the other way.

Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage.

and I tell you, Austin Ruthyn, if you won't look about and marry somebody, somebody may possibly marry you.

A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own.

Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light?

When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at the latter like a trout to a fly. But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be. or wonder who, after all, you are.

Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution.