Quotes About Responsibility

United States—and unfairly, I feel—the greatest purveyor of violence on earth.

Wallace Stegner was a man who lived under the obligation of trying his best to be a "good man," and his writing was part and parcel of that effort. For him, the individual, insofar as his or her capabilities allow, must not only take charge of his or her own destiny, but take on the responsibility of contributing to the welfare of others in family, community and society.

I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone, are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little man is just as guilty, otherwise the peoples of the world would have risen long ago! from We Are Witnesses: Five Diaries of Teenagers Who Died in the Holocaust

The artist should be a seeing-eye dog for a myopic civilization.

There's a lot of trust being built up. I think we have a lot of work ahead of us.

There is a fundamental difference, however, between asking to be permitted to keep a vegetative relative on costly machinery, and asking the taxpayers or society as a whole to pay for such machinery.

The cold, cruel reality is that with one current justice now approaching ninety, and four others over seventy, the day will inevitably arrive when a sitting justice lies in an intensive care unit, both unable to resign and unable to resume his or her duties.

Remember how long you have been putting these things off, and how often you have received an opportunity from the gods and have not made use of it. By now you ought to realize what cosmos you are apart of, and what divine administrator you owe your existence to, and that an end to your time here has been marked out, and if you do not use this time for clearing the clouds from your mind, it will be gone and so will you.

I still feel really bad about it," said Jessie. "That's good," said Grandma.

I used to feed the chickens for you all the time," said Evan. Jessie

if you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much.

If you mess up your children, nothing else you do really matters

If you bungle raising children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much." — Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

Rose wasn't 'ordinary'. What was I supposed to do? Wrap her in cotton wool? Tell her 'Here, I could give you the universe, but I'm not going to in case you get hurt? There's all this stuff out there, all these planets, all these wonders, but I want you to stay at home and work in a shop?

The Doctor gave a modest shrug. "Well, I must admit that I made heads turn wherever I go. It's a burden that I just have to live with.

giving a party was not as simple as going to one. You could always leave someone else's party. You were stuck with your own.

Maybe this is how it happened first for everyone—adults promising us their own failed futures.

You know how many more rich Negroes there'd be if we wasn't all the time trying to pay off some lawyer or bailing a brother out. That's one thing I'm truly guilty of--giving hard-earned money to the man.

Here she was, in all of her deep unknowing knowing that this was the place, this was the time to keep me here by letting me know how easy it would have been to stay fifteen. That the people I loved almost as much as I loved my own father would have determined me optional. Two words spoken early enough, I'm pregnant

Laya! I'm going to give you my baby. You hear me?

But who, he wondered in a moment's panic as her nearing heat began to assault him, who enforces the Enforcer?

We must say yes to the gospel, and that yes is manifested in life as lived daily; or we can say no even by our inactivity.

the state is not immoral but amoral; half of it exists outside morality