Quotes About Responsibility

Mankind in the Christian era possesses one huge advantage over the ancients: a bad conscience. —EGON FRIEDELL,

Well I'm running down the road Tryin' to loosen my load, I've got seven women on my mind, Four that wanna own me, Two that wanna stone me, One says she's a friend of mine.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

It's always the ones who wring their hands demanding that someone defend, protect or educate the children, who are the most ruthless murderers of childhood.

AD Jones' Büro ist fensterlos und nüchtern. Er hat sich ein Eckbüro mit großartiger Aussicht nehmen können, doch als ich ihn einmal deswegen gefragt habe, lautete seine Antwort sinngemäß: "Ein guter Chef sollte nicht allzu viel Zeit im Büro verbringen." p. 26

A large part of being a parent is a constant near certainty that you are screwing it up, and it is comforting to be able to spread the blame around.

I ain't gonna lie. I like having my girl take care of me this way. I can't wait 'til she finish high school and we can live together somewhere on our own. I'ma support her while she in college, pay all the bills and shit, and she can take care of me like this everyday. Man, that's the way I wanna be living.

Self-discipline keeps you doing your job. Without it, you lose your pride and you forget the importance of self-respect in the eyes of your fellow men. Pride keeps you going on. This is what I feared I would lose—the loss of the will to measure up to my men.

If you are a leader, you lead the way, not just in the easy ones, but on the tough ones, too. The key to being a successful combat leader is to earn respect, not because of rank, but because you are a man.

Because Chamberlain, Moore, and Winters were leaders of character first, competence second, and courage third.

Two o'clock already! High time for a woman of letters who has turned out badly to go to sleep.

One of the fondest expressions around is that we can't be the world's policeman. But guess who gets called when suddenly someone needs a cop.

just because you can you does not mean you have to

after the matter has cooled off during an extended period of investigation, to find a scapegoat to blame for unauthorized tampering with the mails.

We are the ones we've been waiting for.

Knowing how to live is not something we have to teach children. Knowing how to live is something we have to be careful not to take away from them.

We're not taught to look at what is going on and say, 'Look what I have created in my life. Isn't that interesting?' Instead, we are taught to judge, lay blame, accuse, play victim, and seek revenge. Neither are we taught to think that our lives are directed by forces other than our own conscious mind—but, in truth, they are.

How much of us is what we do?

A good communist," the man had said, "does not let go of the plough halfway across the paddy and leave the buffalo to find its own direction. He eats with her, tends to her injuries, and sleeps with her until the job is done." Siri had resisted the temptation to spread the word that the Party was advocating bestiality.

A good communist,' the man had said, 'does not let go of the plough halfway across the paddy and leave the buffalo to find its own direction.

But it seemed that for every competent man or woman there was an incompetent man above. It was the law of trickle-up irresponsibility. And the competent man and woman spent so much time manipulating the incompetent men they had neither the time nor the motivation to do their jobs properly.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody ( Joseph Heller, Catch

He'd once read (or heard)—Disraeli, was it? (or Jimmy Bowden?)—that a man ought never to apologize; never to explain. He did neither

A man is little use when his wife's a widow. - Scottish Proverb