Quotes About Responsibility

You can care very much about someone without being capable of becoming their primary caregiver in the event of their parents' untimely death.

It's a measure of the depth of our consumer trance that the death of the planet is not sufficient to break it.

There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don't hear them whinging.

Suicide leaves everyone feeling guilty.

When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

Are you the sum total of your worst acts?

This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.

We have no right to dictate, through irresponsible action or narrow-mindedness, the future of our children, and our children's children. There has been enough destruction, enough death, enough waste.

If we're bringing up kids that are so stupid that they kill themselves because of a song, what good are the kids in the first place ?

A great doctor kills more people than a great general.

Death is there to keep us honest and constantly remind us we are free.

I won't snatch, harm, or scare to death people with you or use checking up on you as an excuse to cause trouble. You're worse than my mother, Rachel." "Mine, too," Jenks muttered.

...eating animals involves an intentional decision to participate in the suffering and death of nonhumans where there is no plausible moral justification.

If you talk to any cop, however hardened, and say, "Has anything that's ever bothered you", they'll tell you about the death of a child that they had to deal with.

When something horrible happens, it's human nature to want to blame it on someone. We want someone to be held accountable, even though sometimes things just happen.

Quizá lo hayas olvidado, pero ni siquiera en Nuremberg sentenciaron a todo el mundo a morir.

it, making amends to father is hard work—all that hacking through the undergrowth of stale pathology with the machete of one's guilt.

Hard to determine from the way she tackled her tasks whether it was she who was serving necessity or necessity that was serving her.

no, a mí no se me habría pasado por la cabeza abandonar la familia y la fábrica para dedicar todo mi tiempo a escribir, como él hizo.

Cuando esto haya terminado ese joven lamentará no sólo haberse metido en política, sino también aprendido a volar— dijo Roosevelt cuando se enteró que había sido nombrado como candidato republicano a las próximas elecciones en las que el sería el candidato demócrata

A culpa em alguém como Bucky pode parecer absurda, porém é, de fato, inevitável. Uma pessoa como ele está condenada. Jamais irá corresponder ao ideal que carrega dentro de si. Nunca sabe onde termina sua responsabilidade. Jamais aceita seus limites porque, sobrecarregado com uma severa bondade natural que não lhe permite resignar-se ao sofrimento dos outros, nunca admitirá , sem se sentir culpado, que possa estar sujeito a alguma limitação

In September, you son of a bitch, I am going to be thirty years old! Correct, Monkey, correct! Which is precisely why it is you and not me who is responsible for your expectations and your dreams! Is that clear? you!

Quando la tragedia umana si è compiuta, la si passa ai giornalisti affinché, banalizzandola, la trasformino in spettacolo.

I was ready to learn of the liberties a boy from an exemplary household could take when he stopped working to please everyone with his juvenile purity and discovered the guilty enjoyment of secretly acting on his own. -nor had I understood till then how the shameless vanity of utter fools can so strongly determine the fate of others.