Quotes About Responsibility

I remember once asking my therapist why it is always me who has to do the changing. She replied, "If you're happy with the situation, don't do anything; if you're not, you'll have to do something about it.

GINGER: The hand that rocks the craddle rules the world. BONGI: That's a slick little maxim — while the hand's rocking the craddle it won't be rocking the boat.

It is a grave mistake to think that the Inquisition or the Southern lynchings or the Rwandan genocide were committed by people who were fundamentally different from us. Soul-scarred Vietnam veterans have tried repeatedly to tell us: You don't know what you're capable of until you are there. Only when all of us recognize our own potential for evil, do we have some power to guard against it.

house like the Howards, are we?" "I don't know," said Charlie again. Kit could hardly breathe. "It'll be a struggle to keep it," said Charlie. "Dad told me that he and Mother don't own the house completely. They borrowed money from the bank to buy it, and they have to

more mouths to feed. And no wonder Mother had been short-tempered today. When she said that even though it was nobody's fault, they were still in

Venía de una familia con los padres, la esposa, el hijo, los siervos, el perro, los rebaños y el ganado. Un equilibrio casi divino.

Se non fai una cosa è perché non vuoi farla, non perché qualcosa o qualcuno te lo impedisce!

La victoria tiene muchos padres, pero la derrota es huérfana.

La libertad es un concepto abstracto: ¿la libertad de quién? ¿Es libre un pobre que no tiene lo suficiente para sustentarse a sí mismo y sacar adelante a su familia?

Cada padre es padre de todos los hijos; cada hijo es hijo de todos los padres.

7.?YOU'RE ALWAYS THE ONE TO BLAME WHEN SOMETHING GOES WRONG. You are the one who needs to be guided, taught, and corrected. That's because everything is your fault—even, or perhaps especially,

YOU'RE ALWAYS THE ONE TO BLAME WHEN SOMETHING GOES WRONG. You are the one who needs to be guided, taught, and corrected. That's because everything is your fault—even, or perhaps especially, when it's not. Guilt trippers rarely own up to their part in problems. Any guilt they feel they project on to you or some other unfortunate soul.

Never forget that when you point the finger at someone, three of your own fingers are pointing back at you...

Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum.

The Saturday Review is not a church paper. It's a secular paper. But, the other day, it said, "The desensitization of 20th century man is more than a danger to the general safety. There are some things we have no business ever getting used to.

A Christian is not a depository of the truth; he's a dispenser of the truth.

You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.

Gandhi is the other person. I believe Gandhi is the only person who knew about real democracy — not democracy as the right to go and buy what you want, but democracy as the responsibility to be accountable to everyone around you. Democracy begins with freedom from hunger, freedom from unemployment, freedom from fear, and freedom from hatred. To me, those are the real freedoms on the basis of which good human societies are based.

Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.

You are not Atlas carrying the world on y6our shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you

Those least responsible for climate change are worst affected by it.

the severing of the link, not just the link—the understanding—between human beings and the planet they live on. They scramble the intelligence that connects eggs to hens, milk to cows, food to forests, water to rivers, air to life and the earth to human existence.39

So many people try to grow up too fast, and it's not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible!

Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.