Quotes About Responsibility

N]ow we have a clearer idea what this story is all about: The world was made for man, and man was made to rule it.

This is precisely how someone speaks who imagines that he is the world's divinely appointed ruler: 'I will not LET them starve. I will not LET the drought come. I will not LET the river flood.

Man's place is to be the first without being the last . . . . [I]t's man's place to be the teacher of all the rest who are capable of becoming what he's become.

You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live.

I needed to confess my sin: I was once again having impure thoughts about saving the world.

Your sufferings must be borne, for you suffer in the cause of good. See how great we have become! ...Though your groans fill the air, isn't it sweeter to live in our own hands than in the hands of the gods?

And if being civilized means anything at all, it should mean you're the leaders of the club, not its only criminals and destroyers.

I pray about teeth-doesn't everyone? I don't have time to floss. You know. Hang in there, I tell them; I'll get around to it before it's too late.

Because the tribe is its members, the tribe is what its members want it to be—nothing more and nothing less.

Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, with a single powerful blow, shattered for all time a complex article of fundamental articles of our cultural faith; that the world was capable of repairing any damage we might do to it; that the world was designed to do this, that the world was on our side; that God himself had fashioned the world specifically to support our efforts to conquer and rule it.

I can confidently predict that if the world is saved, it will not be because some old minds came up with some new programs. Programs never stop the things they're launched to stop. No program has ever stopped poverty, drug abuse, or crime, and no program ever will stop them. And no program will ever stop us from devastating the world.

shattered for all time a complex of fundamental articles of our cultural faith: that the world was capable of repairing any damage we might do to it;

Nobody's out to save the world, because nobody gives a damn about the world, that was just a bunch of goofy kids talking.

it doesn't make any difference. Whether we're being lied to or not, we still have to get up and go to work and pay the bills and all the rest.

I'd get lost without the weight of you two on my shoulders.

I see my upbringing as a great success story. By disciplining me, my parents inculcated self-discipline. And by restricting my choices as a child, they gave me so many choices in my life as an adult. Because of what they did then, I get to do the work I love now.

I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the world, and develop skills, emotional intelligence, to enjoy life, and I'm lucky to be able to do that and have two healthy, normal boys.

With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

I either had to concentrate on fighting, or I had to help my family. I chose my family. I love my mom; I love my family.

I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is.

I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.

I love being American, and I love family. I love having a family, and I feel so blessed, and I feel like God gave me exactly what I wanted, so now I have to do the right thing in God's eyes also. Just follow what God wants me to do.

The family is the nucleus of civilization.