Quotes About Responsibility

Uneducated citizens are potentially as dangerous to the proper functioning of our democratic institutions as are uneducated workers when they handle complicated machinery.

If you're going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy, God will forgive you but the bureaucracy.

A free society can survive only with men and women of integrity. Mediocrity can destroy us just as surely as perils far more famous. In a society that is willing to accept mediocrity, the opportunity for failure is boundless.

The only thing you have 100% control over is you.

The only thing you have 100 percent control over is you.

When I retired, she told me the problem with retired husbands is that you get twice as much husband but only half as much money. She has a very valid point.

Work on yourself first, take responsibility for your own progress.

Those who set out nobly to be their brother's keeper sometimes end up by becoming his jailer. Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

came upon me so gradually, so very pleasantly, that I considered myself especially blessed. You see, I was put in charge of brewing

The greatest gift this generation can give future generations is a HEALTHY PLANET.

The greatest threat to climate change is humanity' Iain Cameron Williams, 2019

For those who are able to work, work has to be seen as the best route out of poverty. For work is not just about more money - it is transformative. It's about taking responsibility for yourself and your family.

It's fairness to say those who work hard, get up in the morning, cut their cloth - in other words 'we can only afford to have one or two children because we don't earn enough'. They pay their taxes and they want to know that the same kind of decision-making is taking place for those on benefits.

This is the strange thing about life after university. It feels like you've just fallen off a conveyor belt of nonstop academic landmarks, and are launched in one fell swoop into the rest of your life. It's suddenly up to you, and not your tutors or your parents.

People were always sorry. Sorry they had done what they had done, sorry they were doing what they were doing, sorry they were going to do what they were going to do; but they still did whatever it is. The sorrow never stopped them; it just made them feel better. And so the sorrow never stopped.

When all this is over, people will try to blame the Germans alone, and the Germans will try to blame the Nazis alone, and the Nazis will try to blame Hitler alone. They will make him bear the sins of the world. But it's not true. You suspected what was happening, and so did I. It was already too late over a year ago. I caused a reporter to lose his job because you told me to. He was deported. The day I did that I made my little contribution to civilization, the only one that matters.

There will be no politics, no ifs and buts if we see something and feel that work needs to be done, we will get people here we can rely on and ensure it is done in the same thorough way as our other projects.

When you're leaving your teenage kids alone, probably a good idea to let them know you're going to be checking in on them occasionally. I suspect Greenspan missed that part.

And then, believe it or not, it came to me for the first time that all the difference was caused by me.

It's all because of me isn't it? It's all my fault?

Come on Pop' I said as best I could 'don't go back now' I felt rotten, watching him go back like that.

The press has the power to stimulate people to clean up the environment prevent nuclear proliferation force crooked politicians out of office reduce poverty provide quality health care for all people and even to save the lives of millions of people as it did in Ethiopia in 1984. But instead we are using it to promote sex violence and sensationalism and to line the pockets of already wealthy media moguls.' Dr Carl Jensen founder of Project Censored

If the journalist is secretly the tool of some invisible public relations machine or vested commercial interest it is the public whose interest is betrayed

Great men are not made by propaganda, but grow out of their actions