Quotes About Responsibility

And anyway, never, never apologise the morning after for what your hormones were telling you last night.

As long as we do violence to other animals, we'll keep on doing violence to ourselves.

There are risks and costs to a program of action but they are far less than the long range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

the exercise of authority was not an easy business, especially if those who exercised it no longer felt they had heaven on their side. That

Sometimes the best catalyst for local responsibility is actually taking pilgrimages to other local places.

In the course of writing this book, I came across a YouTube by Major General Albert Stubblebine III, who left no doubt where he stood. His final assignment before retirement was responsibility for all of the U.S. army's strategic intelligence forces around the world. He and his wife were in Hawaii attending a conference when the 9/11 attack took place around 3:00 a.m. local time.

That seemed to be a feature of life in the country [Malawi]: to welcome strangers, to let them live out their fantasy of philanthropy - a school, an orphanage, a clinic, a welfare center, a malaria eradication program, or a church; and then determine if in any of this effort and expense there was a side benefit - a kickback, a bribe, an easy job, a free vehicle. If the scheme didn't work - and few of them did work - whose fault was that? Whose idea was it in the first place?

On the sunny day that I spent walking its streets I was reminded that Philadelphia (Mississippi) is still the headquarters of the Mississippi Klan. I easily found the headquarters and the free leaflets. ...It's a Klansman's responsibility to register to vote, campaign, and vote for conservative pro white candidates who will put America first and defend our nation's borders.

I had, under pressure, handed over bribes many times before.

At a certain age you stop being a child and start raising your parents ...

The teachers," said one bus driver. "It's always the teachers," the other one said. I sighed, grumbled, kicked at roadside gravel, and slapped my head.

It is wrong to see a country in a bad mood: you begin to blame the country for your mood and to draw the wrong conclusions.

I came to see that for him, for most sociopaths, he had no memory—took no responsibility for anything he'd said or done—had no past, no history, it never happened. Memory is essential to conscience; he had no conscience.

People in power—police, politicians—believe they can get away with murder.

Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.

Chinese blaming is always reserved for the higher-ups: underlings are always innocent. That was how they had been able to cope with the monstrous guilt in the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution.

Il faut penser à ce qui arrive - nous sommes les producteurs de l'avenir.

Whether we are orderlies or orchestra conductors, either we befriend our work-- seeing in it the opportunity for moral excellence and a continual outpouring of heavenly grace-- or we become its victim.

Our life would be what we made of it--nothing more, nothing less.

There was no one else to blame anymore. No Bores or Old Ladies or Nortons, or Assassins waiting at the bridge. And there was no place to hide-no place across any river for a boatman to take us. Our life would be what we made of it-nothing more, nothing less. Baboons. Baboons. They build their own cages, we could almost hear the Pigman whisper, as he took his children with him.

And the day your childhood dies is probably the first day you really know what guilt is.

When are you getting married?' 'After graduation, stupid.

A child's parents should be able to forbid their son or daughter from reading a book of mine or anyone else's. However, those same parents should have zero control over what everyone else's kids can read.

There's no one else to blame. No Bores or Old Ladies or Norton or Assassins waiting at the bridge.