Quotes About Responsibility

Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him.

I am not important. If I take a break, no one dies. And this is A Good Thing.

being a part of a club helps you to be an active person, involved in community life and with a sense of responsibility for the collective. This is important for developing a society of trust.

The theory is that being a part of a club helps you to be an active person, involved in community life and with a sense of responsibility for the collective. This is important for developing a society of trust. There's lots of research to show that being part of a club helps develop trust as it encourages us to live a connected, associational life – which is good for us and makes us happy.

wondering how on earth hospital staff have seen fit to allow us custody of an actual human being. (Me: 'I can't even keep our houseplants alive!' Lego Man: 'We have houseplants?')

remember to ask me to take charge of all minutiae, and they will be taken care of so well and so quickly that you cannot get bogged down in them.

is that you are responsible for what you think because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice.

Proof of the power of the press is the fear of the press by the government. Martha Gellhorn as quoted by Helen Thomas

It took me so many years to move out. I'm definitely a bit of a Peter Pan, reluctant to grow up. It all seemed really nice at home-why change it? Part of me would prefer not to have any responsibility whatsoever.

I'm definitely a bit of Peter Pan, reluctant to grow up....part of me would prefer not to have any responsibility whatsoever.

We cut these numerous windings in our destinies daily with our own hands, while we imagine that we are pursuing a track on the royal high road of respectability and duty, and then complain of those ways being so intricate and so dark. We stand bewildered before the mystery of our own making, and the riddles of life that we will not solve, and then accuse the great Sphinx of devouring us.

Making other people feel bad about themselves and their needs is a very powerful thing to do. Totally immoral, but powerful.

you leave me sitting here writing long margin notes in library books that don't belong to me, some day they'll find out i did it and take my library card away.

I needed a wife, goddamnit, someone to take care of me while I took care of business. But I was the wife. And mother. So

Sometimes a person had to do certain things in order to survive the hard life of a single woman with a heavy burden of responsibility to bear.

The standards for graduates are getting worse and worse. They're slackers. They think all they have to do is read a few pages in a textbook to make it! No desire whatsoever to do a little extra," fumed the professor.

The term "bioethics" was coined by Van Rensselaer Potter, who used it to describe his proposal that we need an ethic that can incorporate our obligations, not just to other humans, but to the biosphere as a whole.

I still can't believe that people I know, my peers, are making babies. I'm too lazy to make a salad.

abból a bölcs felismerésb?l indulva ki, hogy minden hitbeli dolog az egyén személyes ügye, és mindenki maga viseli a felel?sséget metafizikai meggy?z?déséért.

I think housework is the reason most women go to the office.

Every secret we confide in another person can be a burden to them

We don't have time to argue. Nobody has time.

A baby-sitter is a teenager who gets two dollars an hour to eat five dollars' worth of your food.

I am not slighting intellect; but life is common to us along with poorer living things than ourselves. He who kills an animal, however lowly it may be, unless there is necessity, is an assassin.