Quotes About Responsibility

Who never caused others to die Seldom rates a statue.

Make sure to send a lazy man for the Angel of Death.

For my family to go on living the way they are living now I can't just die. I've got to die accidentally.

JD/Dr Cox: The second you start blaming yourself for people's deaths, there's no coming back.

The State is not God. It has not the right to take away what it cannot restore when it wants to.

We can't stop a baby in Africa from starving to death... but we can afford enough technology and weaponry to blow the world up a million times over.

Leave this world a little better than you found it.

There are professions more harmful than industrial design but only a few of them

If I have made a mistake in the design, then I'm the one who should pay for it. I certainly would not ask somebody else to fly a plane if I were afraid to do it myself.

Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not.

Architecture is an imposed art in some ways, imposed upon the public, so people must be sure about what you're doing. You have to be sure about what you're doing.

If design is to be ecologically responsible, it must be independent of concern for the gross national product.

Design without discipline is anarchy, an exercise of irresponsibilit y.

Everyone has to contribute, or they become laborers.

I see my buildings as pieces of cities, and in my designs I try to make them into responsible and contributing citizens.

The ill design is most ill for the designer.

The last person I ever want working for me is someone who says 'that's not in my job description.

It is inappropriate (to allow parents) to design the curriculum and to run the school.

Architect: Someone who knows the difference between that which could be done and that which should be done.

How oft do they rescue or ruin us, through whimsy or design or a combination of both, the adults to whom we entrust our care!

The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire.

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.

I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity.

I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa; there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.