Quotes About Responsibility

the qualities that led the top Nazis to commit and tolerate acts of horror existed in many people, living in many places.

Naturally, I am the leader, so it is my problem to see that each of us contributes his share'.

You don't want me. You're all hard work and deadlines! I'm... snowballs and fun times. I'm not a Guardian.

Your pony, he said as he stomped toward me. "I'm the farrier who is here to fix your pony." "I thought you were a Hells Angel," I said. "I used to be," he replied. "But fighting all the time and being really drunk and nasty got boring. So now I just take care of animals.

I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it." Oscar Wilde / #Hole_in_my_Life By Jack Gantos

After an earthquake in China, the generous tobacco companies stepped in to pay for the rebuilding of the area's schools. However, there is an ethical question to be asked here. Is it right that a school should now be called 'Sichuan Tobacco Project Hope Primary School'? And furthermore, should the company have been allowed to paint a huge message on the school's walls which says Tobacco can help you become an achiever? I'm sure you can guess the answer...

If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.

Tertullian thunders at women in the manner of the God of the Old Testament who once threatened to make their hair fall out. But his tone and his words are altogether more menacing. Not only are women held responsible fot the Fall of Man, but it is they, not the Jews, not the Roman authorities--who are blamed for the suffering and death of Jesus, man's Redeemer. It is through their flesh that the devil comes into the world.

We need leaders of conviction who have diverse constituencies always in mind, who carefully consider the larger contexts of their words and deeds. We need people who aren't afraid to stand for what they believe in, but who also recognize the privilege of their position. We need leaders who hold themselves accountable to their peers – leaders of great fortitude and great integrity.

Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

The dead are home before us, daddy, she said. But we have work to do.

Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.

I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.

Marriage encourages the men and women who together create life to unite in a bond for the protection of children.

The way I treat my body is not disconnected from the way I treat my family or the commitment I have to peace on our earth.

Your happiness and suffering depend on your actions and not on my wishes for you.

What is man," said Chief Seattle, "without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, man would die from great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to man.

After the ecstasy comes the laundry.

Like the mother of the world who carries the pain of the world in her heart, you are sharing in the totality of this pain and are called upon to meet it in compassion and joy instead of self-pity.

Curse him to eternal damnation! Yes! Of course!" came the emotional reply. "Don't curse him," I said softly. "Remember--he's only a machine, just an imperfect mirror of ourselves. We made him what he is--the disease, the cancer." There was nothing else to say, because that left only cursing ourselves, and we were already cursed.

Was having someone else hunt and kill for you any different, morally, than doing it yourself, or was it worse because it removed you from the act while still requiring the kill?

Power without the wisdom to use it properly was a very good definition of evil,

Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car.