Quotes About Responsibility

I can explain why I have to do what I'm about to do, but I'm acutely aware that an explanation is not a righteous justification. What's bad is bad even if necessary.

I hate violence. I hate injustice more. I just want to be a fry cook, but the world demands more from me than eggs and pancakes.

Duty is a good thing, a calling without which no civilization can survive, but it is also a weight and chain that sometimes seems sure to sink you to the airless bottom of a dark pool

those who wish to punish the current and future generations for the inequities of a generation long gone, and who equate justice with revenge, are the most dangerous people in the world.

The world is hat we make it, and our future is ours to shape.

It's a world of sorrow, Oddie, because we make it so.

Her husband, Rafael, who'd left her and who'd contributed not one penny to his children's welfare, was a fool of such dimensions that he should have been required to dress like a jester, complete with silly hat and curled-toe shoes.

To protect the innocent, to avoid being one of Burke's good men who do nothing, you have to accept permanent scars that cincture the heart and traumas of the mind that occasionally reopen to weep again.

Free will," she agreed, "our greatest gift, the thing that makes life worth living, in spite of all the anguish it brings.

When she returned, she smiled and said, We were at the movies once, and this dork took two phone calls during the film. Later we followed him, and Andre broke both his legs with a baseball bat. This proved that even the most evil people could occasionally have a socially responsible impulse.

There is no fate, only free will, and we were just in the way of other people's free will when they decided to do the Devil's work.

The opportunity to love a dog and to treat it with kindness was an opportunity for a lost and selfish human 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. Cinnamon

He had taught me how to be a man when my real father proved not to be much of one himself and incapable of showing a son the way.

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.

Ryan's parents, no less than Sam's, were of that portion of the post-war generation that rejected the responsibilities of tradition and embraced entitlement. Sometimes it seemed to him that he was the parent, that his mother and father were the children. Regardless of the consequences of their behavior and decisions, they would see no need for redemption. Giving them the chance to earn it would only offend them.

Acknowledge your fear, odd one. Fearlessness is for the insane and the arrogant. You are neither. Those who rely on you for their lives will be well served only if you fear what you should fear. You are a unique soul, a child of grace, but you can still fail yourself and others.

He said that we of the hidden had our burdens, but those who lived in the open carried far heavier burdens than ours, which was true.

Over dinner, I had agreed to be her paladin, and no self-respecting paladin would decide on a course of action based on a majority vote of a committee of two.

With human beings, a natural death was a death with dignity. But animals were innocents, and as their stewards, people owed them mercy.

You're a murderer.' 'So are you' she said. 'No, I kill. You murder.' 'What's the difference?' 'I kill murderers.

We not-much-of-anything types don't worry about the cost of leaving a light on unnecessarily.

your life is yours to shape as you wish with free will...

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

have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.'