Quotes About Responsibility

First of all, I know it's all people like you. And that's what's so scary. Individually you don't know what you're doing collectively .

The raising of a child is the building of a cathedral. You can't cut corners.

Don't you think if someone like me, someone who invented most of this shit, is scared, don't you think you should be scared, too?

The work of man is done behind the back of the natural world. When nature notices, and can muster the energy, it wipes the slate clean again.

But when friends would ask Kathy whether they, too, should start their own business, she talked them out of it. You don't run the business, she would say. The business runs you.

Her student loans were voracious and demanded monthly feedings

None of this I'd mine. My father is not mine- not in that way. His death and what he's done are not mine. Nor are my upbringing not my town nor its tragedies. How can these things be mine? Holding me responsible for keeping hidden this information is ridiculous. I was born into a town and a family and the town and my family happened to me. I own none of it. It's everyone's.

If you don't have something grand for men like us to be part of, we will take apart all the little things. Neighbourhood by neighbourhood. Building by building. Family by family.

Public-private leads to private-private, and soon you have the Circle running most or even all government services

Overnight, all comment boards became civil, all posters held accountable. The trolls, who had more or less overtaken the internet, were driven back into the darkness.

They brought you here so you could have choices," Ghassan said. "And you're blowing it. If you want to do something different when you grow up, you're going to have to get your shit together.

don't presume the benevolence of your leaders.

The inactive must justify their sloth by picking nits with those making an attempt—

Own the error and correct it," he said. Hamood had a thousand proverbs and maxims. His favorite was Keep the money in your hand, never in your heart. He used that one a lot.

Young men need to be kept away from guns, bombs, women, cars, hard alcohol and heavy machinery.

Now we're all God. Every one of us will soon be able to see, and cast judgement upon, every other. We'll see what He sees. We'll articulate His judgement. We'll channel His wrath and deliver His forgiveness. On a constant and global level.

My every meeting, movement, my every word, will be available to all my constituents and to the world.

but her style of parenting was predicated on hoping for things over which she had little or no control.

Hours later, the cat was asleep, and Erin lay next to it, her eyes half-closed. There was purring. I felt content. Why does it give so much comfort to be responsible for someone's sleep? We all — don't we? — want creatures sleeping in our homes while we walk about, turning off lights.

For years there was this happy time when those controlling the major internet conduits were actually decent enough people. Or at least they weren't predatory and vengeful.

Die Lage ist kritisch, und du bist in der einzigartigen Position, Einfluss auf sehr bedeutsame historische Ereignisse zu nehmen. Der Moment ist da. Der Moment, an dem geschichtliche Weichen gestellt werden. Stell dir vor, du hättest etwas tun können, ehe Hitler Kanzler wurde. Ehe Stalin Osteuropa annektierte. Wir sind drauf und dran, ein weiteres sehr hungriges, sehr böses Reich zu erschaffen, Mae. Verstehst du das?

No one has a plan for anything. I guess that's the crushing thing, the thing that drives us all crazy. We all think there must be someone very smart at the controls, spending the money, making plans for our schools, parks, everything. But then it's guys like you, who are just guys like me. No one has a fucking clue.

But if the customer knows that five dollars is the actual price that cup of coffee should be—the correct price to ensure that everyone involved in bringing that cup of coffee into existence is being treated humanely and given a chance to live with dignity—would that customer balk or step up?

Forgotten is the first duty of love: to speak the truth (Ephesians 4:15). Real love does not flatter or soothe when correction is needed but points out the error which is blinding and harming the loved one. Christ said, As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten; be zealous, therefore, and repent (Revelation 3:19). Instead, the idea is now current that love excludes rebuke, ignores the truth, and seeks unity at any price. Only disaster can result.