Quotes About Responsibility

we are responsible for the Universe, because we are the Universe' (Brida)

Setiap orang di dunia ini, apa pun pekerjaannya, memainkan peran penting dalam sejarah dunia. Dan biasanya orang itu sendiri tidak menyadarinya.

This morning, my son asked me for money to buy a sheep. Should I help him, do you think?" "Since it clearly isn't a matter of urgency, wait another week before giving him your answer." "But I have the means to help him now. What difference will a week make?" "A very great difference indeed. Experience has taught me that people only give value to a thing if they have, at some point, been un-certain as to whether or not they'll get it.

Up until then, travel and the idea of going far away had just been a dream, and dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice. That way, we avoid all the risks, frustrations and difficulties, and when we are old, we can always blame other people--preferably our parents, our spouses or our children--for our failure to realize our dreams.

you are the only person responsible for your choice

I feel like saying: Yes, I did something I shouldn't have done and yet I don't feel the tiniest bit guilty, just afraid of being found out.

It's not what enters men's mouths that's evil," said the alchemist. "It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

My dear, everyone makes mistakes. You're forgiven, but I cannot force that forgiveness on you. It's your choice.

Basically, everything that happens in our life is our fault and ours alone. A lot of people go through the same difficulties we went through, and they react completely differently. We looked for the easiest way out: a separate reality

It's not what enters men's mouths that's evil,...It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

It was chosen by the archer and though it is a long way off, we cannot blame it when we fail to hit it. In this lies the beauty of the way of the bow: you can never excuse yourself by saying that your opponent was stronger than you.

Time to grow up. Time to stop bawling. Time to do SOMETHING. And that means, if I'm not sleeping, my nerd-herd isn't sleeping either-sun or no sun.

cats choose us; we don't own them

Grown people never ask you what they should do until they've already decided for themselves.

Bad judgement and carelessness are not punishable by rape.

What good is trying to reform if you have to spend the rest of your life paying for the stupid things you did when you still got high and didn't give a damn?

If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.

Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.

If I have a handful of silver it is because I work and my wife works, and we do not, as some do, sit idling over a gambling table or gossiping on doorsteps never swept, letting the fields grow to weeds and our children go half-fed! (Buck, 65)

To repay evil with kindness is the proof of a good man; a superior man blames himself, a common man blames others.

None of us is so much better or wiser than any other than he can destroy a single creature without destroying something of himself.

To shut one's door while others suffer, to care only for one's own, disclaiming responsibility for humanity, is to destroy all good impulse and to build up a deadly selfishness which will be a boomerang in its effect upon ourselves. Let our own children see the opportunity now theirs for Americanism in the best and traditional sense. There was never a better hour than this to be an American. May 1940, Christian Herald.

I do not blame you, child, for growing up," she announced. "But I teach you this: Whatever happens is always the woman's fault.

And as she had learned to do, while she pondered on large things, she acted on small ones.