Quotes About Responsibility

No you won't understand will you! that your own selfish suffering's easier than facing suffering you've caused

Nothing can be given, which cannot also be withheld.

No matter how you love, you cannot repay the debts contracted in the loved one's past, nor interfere with how the loved one tries to repay them. But you must pay, you do though you cannot.

What do you think we ought to do? she asked. Do? Put his sorry ass away. Tell the law and let them open the graves themselves. Put him away forever in some crazyhouse. They'd have to. You think they would? I know they would. What would you do with him? There's supposed to be respect for the dead. It's the way we evolved or something. It's genetic. This man here…he wouldn't cull anything. He'd do anything.

No move is the wrong move, What? Sometimes any move at all is better than nothin. If you're right, you're one up. If you're wrong you start over. This sittin and waiting for somebody else to make up their mind is for the God-damned birds. You have to take control of your own life.

And don't forget to water the fuckin' goldfish.

Guys, I'm gonna pretend like all of you are incapacitated or unconscious. And if none of you makes a move, I'll be leaving you to your own resources. Otherwise, this drone's detonating its onboard explosives. As the only one of us who's not physically present, I've got zero fucks to give about how that goes. Your call. [Conner]

Every AI ever built has an electromagnetic shotgun wired to its forehead.' Case

If I blow the conch and they don't come back; then we've had it. We shan't keep the fire going. We'll be like animals. We'll never be rescued. If you don't blow, we'll soon be animals anyway.

The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.

We musn't let anything happen to Piggy, must we?

Maybe, he said hesitantly, maybe there is a beast. The assembly cried out savagely and Ralph stood up in amazement. You, Simon? You believe in this? I don't know, said Simon. His heartbeats were choking him. [...] Ralph shouted. Hear him! He's got the conch! What I mean is . . . maybe it's only us. Nuts! That was from Piggy, shocked out of decorum.

I cannot convince myself that my mental capacities are important enough to justify either the good or the harm they started.

Grownups know things," said Piggy. "They ain't afraid of the dark. They'd meet and have tea and discuss. Then things 'ud be all right—

I got this to say. you are acting like a crowd of kids.

I dunno, Ralph. We just got to go on, that's all. That's what grown-ups would do.

Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me (Spiegel & Grau, 2015)

The rules!" shouted Ralph. "You're breaking the rules!" "Who cares?" Ralph summoned his wits. "Because the rules are the only thing we've got!

Sen biliyordun deÄŸil mi? Sizlerin bir parças? olduÄŸumu biliyordun? Sizlere öyle yak?n, öyle yak?n, öyle yak?n?m ki! Her ÅŸeyin bozuk gitmesinin nedeniyim ben. Bunu biliyorsun, deÄŸil mi?

Le assemblee. Andiamo pazzi per le assemblee, vero? Una al giorno. Anche due volte al giorno. Stiamo lì a parlare. Scommetto che se suonassi la conchiglia in quest'istante, eccome se verrebbero, e di corsa. E allora, sapete, ce ne staremmo lì tutti compiti, e qualcuno proporrebbe di costruire un jet, o un sottomarino, o una televisione. Ad assemblea finita, lavorerebbero per cinque minuti e poi se ne andrebbero a zonzo, o a caccia.»

The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise. And then the occasion slipped by so that you had to grab at a decision. This made you think; because thought was a valuable thing, that got results...

They would reach the castle some time; and the chief would have to go forward.

Tú lo sabías, verdad? ¿Que soy parte de ti? ¡Caliente, caliente, caliente! ¿Que soy la causa de que todo salga mal? ¿De que las cosas sean como son?

Your father is dying. Drat! said the Prince, That means I shall have to get married.