Quotes About Responsibility

Ser feliz é uma responsabilidade muito grande. Pouca gente tem coragem. Tenho coragem mas com um pouco de medo. Pessoa feliz é quem aceitou a morte. Quando estou feliz demais, sinto uma angústia amordaçante: assusto-me.

How does it feel to have a daughter? - At times it's like holding a warm egg in my hand.

Would it be simplistic to think the moral problem with regards to others consists in behaving as one ought to, and the moral problem with regards to oneself is managing to feel what one ought to?

Now I know: I'm alone. I and my freedom that I don't know how to use. Great responsibility of solitude. Whoever isn't lost doesn't know freedom and love it. As for me, I own up to my solitude that sometimes falls into ecstasy as before fireworks. I am alone and must live a certain intimate glory that in solitude can become pain. And the pain, silence. I keep its name secret. I need secrets in order to live.

Ahora lo sé: soy sola. Yo y mi liberad que no sé usar. La gran responsabilidad de la soledad. Quien no está perdido no conoce la libertad y no la ama. En cuanto a mí, asumo mi soledad. Que a veces se extasía como ante los fuegos artificiales. Soy sola y tengo que vivir una cierta gloria íntima que en la soledad pueda convertirse en dolor. Y el dolor, en silencio.

I shall do everything possible to see that she doesn't die. But I feel such an urge to put her to sleep then go off to sleep myself.

Eu sempre disse a mim mesma que o amor que os outros têm pela gente cria mais deveres do que o amor que a gente tem pelos outros.

A ética da moral é mantê-la em segredo. A liberdade é um segredo.

To be happy is a great responsibility. Few have the nerve. I have the nerve but with a bit of fear. A happy person is one who has accepted death. When I'm too happy, I feel a gagging anguish; I get scared.

Parents care more than any institution about their children.

the religious models that had existed up until then did not adequately prepare us. Only through a process of radical self-empowerment—which Ikeda, expanding upon a term used by Toda, called Human Revolution—could human beings address issues that big. They couldn't be dealt with effectively by any one people, nation, or religion, but only by humanity as a whole.

The first thing we see as we travel round the world is our own filth, thrown into the face of mankind.

Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and for us European earth-dwellers, the adventure played out in the heart of the New World signifies in the first place that it was not our world and that we bear responsibility for the crime of its destruction.

Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.

First signs of the age when wisdom begins? There are moments when my past makes me ashamed. When I'm embarrassed to have taken so much while giving so little.

The mistake a lot of politicians make is forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband.

Lo sentí cercano, hay mucha gente que no es ciega y, de todos modos, no quiere ver. Quizá tomándoles la mano lo logren

No hay nada más dañino para un alumno, decía Robert, que un docente resentido, un docente que hace su tarea renegando de ella, creyendo que él está para más, que la vida le tiene reservada grandes tareas y mientras tanto no le queda más remedio que dar clases.

el daño que se puede hacer al otro cuando no lo dejamos elegir más camino que aquel que nosotros creemos correcto.

Como su hija, que ni me conocía, su hija que no se atrevió a ser madre pero dispuso de mi cuerpo como si fuera de ella, así como hoy usted, que no vino a saldar una deuda sino a cometer el mismo delito, veinte años después. La mira y repite, usted vino a usar mi cuerpo.

Éste es mi último acto de dignidad, reconocer mi error: el daño que se puede hacer al otro cuando no lo dejamos elegir más camino que aquel que nosotros creemos correcto.

If abandoned rage asks, Who should answer for this? / Say, the very blood of our lives eats composure up.

It is the White Man who creates the black man. But it is the black man who creates.