Quotes About Responsibility

Before you do something questionable," Roger continued, as he had countless times before, "ask yourself, 'What if everybody did what I'm about to do?

maybe people gave God too many alls to juggle.

Los gobiernos no pueden dar nada que no les hayan arrancado antes a sus ciudadanos.

The Kingdom of God includes everyone, that is everyone to the degree that they bring forth the fruits of it.  It excludes nobody but those who exclude themselves by not bringing forth any fruits."* So the Kingdom of God cannot be identified with any earthly nation whether it be the Jews, the Romans, the British or the Americans. Paul told us in Galatians 3:28-29:

In August, Douglass righteously claimed that "everyone knows that this is the slaveholders' rebellion and nothing else." The war, he said, was the work of a "privileged class of irresponsible despots, authorized tyrants and blood-suckers, who fasten upon the Negro's flesh, and draw political power and consequence from their legalized crimes.

Our government may at some time be in the hands of a bad man. When in the hands of a good man it is all well enough. . . . We ought to have our government so shaped that even when in the hands of a bad man we shall be safe."24

Remember that just so much are you adding to the pleasure or misery of other people's days… Whether each day of your life shall give happiness or suffering rests with yourself. – George Merriam

They could hate her guts all they liked as long as they did their duty.

This, she realized suddenly, was probably the best squadron command she would ever have—unless

Victimology's all about emotions and finding someone—anyone—else to blame for your situation. And of course, that 'someone' has to've done it out of pure malevolence! After all, you're the victim, the pure and innocent injured party who never did a single thing to deserve what's happened to you.

Those highly trained armor specialists were responsible for major repairs, upgrades, and modifications, but in Alicia's opinion, anyone who didn't want to stay hands-on with the standard maintenance and, especially, troubleshooting of her own armor just before a drop ought to be confined somewhere in a nice, soft-sided room where she couldn't hurt herself or anyone else.

only a sergeant

I can't say for certain. I can paper over the cracks for a while, maybe even maintain a facade of affluence, by robbing Peter to pay Paul

Constitutioon

all that was necessary for evil to triumph was for good men—and women—to do nothing.

Atlantis was one name for an ancient civilization that went through a terrible catastrophe and that we now have the opportunity to not repeat the same mistakes. We have the opportunity to use our technology responsibly and to steward the earth rather than steer it into its own destruction.

It's hard on Mom, though, a nurse's aid at a nursing home, taking care of old people all day and then coming home to Gramps, who lately has been having trouble remembering our names.

Central Bankers are driving us to Hell in a vehicle We are paying the installments on

The desideratum of the philosophy "better to have never been" is parents being charged with manslaughter for bringing children into the world

To many people, free will is a license to rebel not against what is unjust or hard in life but against what is best for them and true.

Inaction counted as a choice.

The opportunity to love a dog and to treat it with kindness is an opportunity for a lost and selfish heart to be redeemed. They are powerless and innocent, and it is how we treat the humblest among us that surely determines the fate of our souls

But victimhood was seductive, a release from responsibility and caring. Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation; failure would no longer generate guilt but, instead, would spawn a comforting self-pity.

The world howls for social justice, but when it comes to social responsibility, you sometimes can't even hear crickets chirping.