Quotes About Responsibility

I've been feeling rather bloodthirsty lately, and saving the world seemed a good way to use it.

Quizá —dijo— deberías estar más pendiente de a quién muerde tu perro. —¡Yo no! —dijo Jamal—. Soy un creyente del libre albedrío. Si mi perro elige odiar a toda la raza humana menos a mí, es libre de hacerlo.

She realized Howl was going out then. "You'll make your cold worse," she said. "I shall die and then you'll all be sorry," the red-bearded man said, and went out through the door with the knob green-down.

So you eat them. And don't try chucking them away. I'll know. I empty the bins.

It never ceases to amaze me," [Chrestomanci] said, "the way people always manage to worry about the wrong things. My dear sir, do you realise that you, your son, and four of your pupils, are all likely to be burnt unless we do something? And here are you worrying about timetables.

I didn't ask to be a witch.' Chrestomanci looked at him with faint, chilly surprise. 'Didn't you?' The way he said it made Charles actually wonder, for a moment, if he had somehow chosen to be born a witch.

Now there, Charles,' said Chrestomanci, 'you have an excellent example quite apart from rights and wrongs, of why it is such a bad idea to do things to people. Everyone is now sorry for Simon. Which is not what you want at all, is it?

The job Chrestomanci has is to make sure this world isn't run entirely by witches. Ordinary people have rights too.

Pero ahora se daba cuenta de que había cosas que solo era capaz de hacer cuando ya no le quedaba ninguna excusa.

TONINO READ HALF THE NIGHT. With all the grown-ups hard at work in the Scriptorium, there was no one to tell him to go to bed.

And you call yourself a god! Tanamil fetched himself up onto one elbow and said, very earnestly, a very strange thing. I never called myself that, he said. Neither I nor any of the Undying ever made that claim. It is a claim men made for us, and that is how we came to be bound.

God may promise not to destroy creation, but it is not a promise humankind made - to our peril.

Germany's crime is the greatest crime the world has ever known, because it is not on the scale of History: it is on the scale of Evolution.

Selves will accumulate when one isn't looking, and they don't always act wisely or well.

I do feel responsible. He used to be able to look after himself. Now he can't. That's so different, so strange. The big question is: Is more improvement really possible, or should I stop pushing him?' [p. 153]

What sort of stewards of the future planet will today's digital children be?

doing and not doing, everyone's conscience finds its

Marek Edelman in Krall, Shielding the Flame. After the war Edelman became a cardiologist, commenting that when one knows death so well, one has more responsibility for life. Chapter

I only did my duty—if you can save somebody's life, it's your duty to try.

All the love in the world doesn't put food on the table.

Even in your world, people have died for words. Sometimes they've died of them. One learns to be careful what one says in such a world. And like anything so powerful, like any weapon, words cut both ways. They redeem and betray—sometimes both at once. The attribute we name as a virtue may also turn out to be our bane. So we watch what we call things—in case we should turn out to be right.

If you see an injustice, and don't move to right it when you have a chance, history won't forget that, either.

I will meet the cruel and the cowardly today, she thought, liars and the envious, the uncaring and unknowing: they will be all around. But their numbers and their carelessness do not mean I have to be like them. For my own part, I know my job; my commissions comes from Those Who Are.

Become careless with fire, and sure enough, fire will burn you. Do treachery, and treachery will be done you. Kill, and be punished with death. All these I've done. Now I pay the price, in my own flesh and blood.