Quotes About Responsibility

Nobody makes anybody enlightened.Just tell them what you want to say, then let them decide for themselves.

That was the thing about being alone, in theory or in principle. Whatever happened-good, bad, or anywhere in between-it was always, if nothing else, all your own.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

Compassion is fierce and strong, and it holds people accountable. But it doesn't do it with anger or judgment.

Never hit anyone in anger, unless you're absolutely sure you can get away with it.

Are you angry that others disappoint you? Remember you cannot depend upon yourself.

Anger is a valid emotion. It's only bad when it takes control and makes you do things you don't want to do.

Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action.

Fairest and dearest, your wrath and anger are more heavy than I can bear; but learn that I cannot tell what you wish me to say without sinning against my honour too grievously.

Blaming and punishing others are superficial expressions of anger.

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves.

Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.

The same goes for envy, anger and insults - said the master. - When they are not accepted, they continue to belong to the one who carried them.

If you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out. Nothing can come out of you that is not in you. If when you are pressured, anger comes out, it is not the fault of the person who pressured.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

Anger is an uncivil attempt to make another feel guilty or a cruel way of trying to correct them.

Anger is almost always an emotion for people who wish to control others while simultaneously failing to control themselves.

Real integrity means an answer. It doesn't just mean - it doesn't mean riding the anger. And this is very difficult to do.

O]ne can become whole only by the responsible acceptance of one's partiality.

There appears to be a law that when creatures have reached the level of consciousness, as men have, they must become conscious of the creation; they must learn how they fit into it and what its needs are and what it requires of them, or else pay a terrible penalty: the spirit of the creation will go out of them, and they will become destructive; the very earth will depart from them and go where they cannot follow.

People who own the world outright for profit will have to be stopped by influence, by power, by us.

Why should anybody wait to do what is right until everybody does it?

What the government will or will not do is finally beside the point. If people do not have the government they want, then they will have a government that they must either change or endure. Finally

T]he whole human population of the world cannot live on imported food. Some people some where are going to have to grow the food. And where ever food is grown the growing of it will raise the same two questions: How do you preserve the land in use? And how do you preserve the people who use the land? The farther the food is transported, the harder it will be to answer those questions correctly.