Quotes About Responsibility

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Maturation is fundamentally the process of learning to discipline one's self and to carry personal responsibility.

John F. Kennedy deployed a chiasmus during his inaugural address—"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country"—and thousands joined the Peace Corps.

The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.

There's nothing more frightening than a day job.

Some things never change. Death, taxes —and somebody always pays for lunch.

Professor Bullfinch had taken up the obsidian ax, and he hefted it thoughtfully. "I should hate to have to turn this against a person," he said. "Still, a scientist should not shrink from new experiences

Piece of cake." Brandon's grin had a certain very familiar male cockiness about it. "Dad says this time around I was his sucker punch." His grin faded slightly and his expression grew more serious as he continued. "But when we realized you were in danger, Dad went wild. I doubt if any car, even that old 'vette Dad used to drive, ever made the kind of time on River Road your Buick made last night. Dad really is a hell of a driver, isn't he?

Dad says Specter gets steak every Saturday night for the rest of his life." "Specter will hold him to that, I'm sure." Diana leaned back against the pillows. "Hurry up and tell me the rest. Once Colby gets back, he probably won't tell me a thing. All he'll want to discuss is breast-feeding techniques and how to change diapers.

Paperwork is as necessary to modern life as food and shelter. You can't live without it.

Something your father wouldn't have told you, he began. Taking blood, it leaves a mark on you. No matter how it's done, or how it's justified, it leaves a mark that goes in deep. Be sure you're willing to wear that mark before you take the blood.

One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.

Si nous ne nous conduisons pas tout à fait bien, c'est parce qu'il nous reste, à tous, une vague petite notion de devoir au fond de notre désordre qui fait que nous n'avons pas le courage de nous conduire tout à fait mal.

Children are simultaneously required to constitute themselves as autonomous subjects, responsible, free and conscious, and to constitute themselves as submissive, inert, obedient, conforming objects.

God scoffs at (smiles at) those he sees denouncing the evils of which they are the cause.

Action or exaction? Voting, petitions, solidarity, information, human rights: all these things are gently extorted from you in the form of personal or promotional blackmail.

One can imagine a high-definition democracy, in which they would show the human rights chart every day, in real time on the screens, in the way they do now for the weather. They would show the observance and violation of those rights over the whole planet, possibly with immediate penalties (which would obviously produce a constant worsening of the situation).

Çocuklar bir yanda özerk, sorumlu, özgür ve bilinçli varl?klar olmak zorundayken öte yandan boyun eÄŸmek, tepki göstermemek, itaat etmek ve kurallara uymak zorundad?rlar. Çocuk, bütün bu alanlarda mücadele etmek durumundad?r. ÖrneÄŸin, uymak zorunda kald??? çeliÅŸkili bir mecburiyete ikili bir stratejiyle kar?? koymaktad?r.

Ma è così sicuro che la corruzione debba essere sradicata?

Avoid having power over anyone, unless it be the power of life and death.

Freedom, will, responsibility - to sweep away all these categories, as it was necessary to sweep away those of soul, sin, immortality and the concepts of heaven and hell to deliver ourselves from the religious and the feudal.

Sorumluluk, denetleme, sansür ve kendi kendini cayd?rma olay? her zaman için sahip olunan güç ve silahlardan daha h?zl? bir tempoda geliÅŸmektedir. Zaten toplumsal düzenin s?rr? da burada yatmaktad?r.

The proof of how poorly grounded freedom is is that depriving someone of their freedom itself no longer means anything. Impossible to find an equivalence between the crime and the punishment or, therefore, any possible 'justice'. Given the extension of responsibility and its ramification into all networks, the irresponsibility is the same everywhere.