Quotes About Responsibility

I was attached to this city by the god—though it seems a ridiculous thing to say—as upon a great and noble horse which was somewhat sluggish because of its size and needed to be stirred up by a kind of gadfly. It is to fulfill some such function that I believe the god has placed me in the city. I never cease to rouse each and every one of you, to persuade and reproach you all day long and everywhere I find myself in your company

Everyone should think it a disgrace and unworthy of a gentleman, if any citizen devotes the whole of any night to sleep.

If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

Men engrossed in the pursuit of money are unfit to rule a state.

If everything belongs to everybody, nobody will take care of anything.

Hay en un Estado señal más segura de una mala y viciosa educación que la necesidad de médicos y de jueces hábiles no sólo para los artesanos y pueblo bajo, sino también para los que se precian de haber sido educados como hombres libres? ¿No es cosa vergonzosa y una prueba insigne de ignorancia el verse forzado a acudir a una justicia extraña por no ser uno mismo justo, y el convertir a los demás en dueños y jueces de su derecho?

qué Estado puede subsistir, si los fallos dados no tienen ninguna fuerza y son eludidos por los particulares?

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

only those who do not seek power are qualified to hold it

NICIAS: To that I quite agree, if Socrates is willing to take them under his charge. I should not wish for any one else to be the tutor of Niceratus. But I observe that when I mention the matter to him he recommends to me some other tutor and refuses himself. Perhaps he may be more ready to listen to you, Lysimachus.

Y así, Trasímaco --- dije yo-, nadie que tiene gobierno, en cuanto es gobernante, examina ni ordena lo conveniente para sí mismo, sino lo conveniente para el gobernado y sujeto a su arte, y dice cuanto dice y hace todo cuanto hace mirando a éste y a su conveniencia y ventaja.

And that reputation was a true one, for the defeat which came upon us was our own doing. We were never conquered by others, and to this day we are still unconquered by them; but we were our own conquerors, and received defeat at our own hands.

Crito, we owe a cock to Asclepius

When my sons are grown up, I would ask you, O my friends, to punish them; and I would have you trouble them, as I have troubled you, if they seem to care about riches, or anything, more than about virtue; or if they pretend to be something when they are really nothing,—then reprove them, as I have reproved you, for not caring about that for which they ought to care, and thinking that they are something when they are really nothing.

Anyone who's really fighting for justice must live a private life as a citizen and not as a public figure if he's going to survive even a short time.

DoÄŸru olan, yaln?z güçlünün iÅŸine geleni yapmak deÄŸil, tersini de, iÅŸine gelmeyeni yapmakt?r

Une courtisane est toujours bonne, s'il y a plus de mal que de bien à faire.

And that's another thing. What if I were to talk to Tanker, find out if he's happy at the Polonius Room, see if maybe he wants to come back? He was always such a key part of this kitchen. Rickey pointed a chocolate-smudged finger at Lenny. Don't you dare. If I decide I want to talk to him, I'll talk to him. I told you, I don't need you handling my business for me. I understand, Lenny said, making a mental note to call Tanker.

I suspected later that I might actually saved lives by killing some of them.

I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors.

In light of reports of more demonstrations, I urge that there must be NO violence, NO lawbreaking and NO vandalism of any kind. That is not what I stand for, and it is not what America stands for. I call on ALL Americans to help ease tensions and calm tempers. Thank You.

It is man who kills, man who creates or suffers injustice; it is no longer man who, having lost all restraint, shares his bed with a corpse. Whoever waits for his neighbor to die in order to take his piece of bread is, albeit guiltless, further from the model of thinking man than the most primitive pigmy or the most vicious sadist.

It was the shame we knew so well, the shame that drowned us after the selections, and every time we had to watch, or submit to, some outrage: the shame that the Germans did not know, that the just man experiences at another man's crime; the feeling of guilt that such a crime should exist, that it should have been introduced irrevocably into the world of things that exist, and that his will for good should have proved too weak or null, and should not have availed in defense.

There are people who wring their hands and call it an abyss, but do nothing to fill it; there are also those who work to widen it, as if the scientist and literary man belong to two different human subspecies, reciprocally incomprehensible, fated to ignore each other and not apt to engage in cross-fertilization.