Quotes About Responsibility
The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people.
~ Jacques Delors
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I cannot respond to the call, the request, the obligation, or even the love of another, without sacrificing the other other, the other others
~ Jacques Derrida
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A major fact of our present civilization is that more and more sin becomes collective, and the individual is forced to participate in collective sin.
~ Jacques Ellul
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modern man does not think about current problems; he feels them. He reacts, but he does not understand them any more than he takes responsibility for them. He is even less capable of spotting any inconsistency between successive facts; man's capacity to forget is unlimited. This is one of the most important and useful points for the propagandist, who can always be sure that a particular propaganda theme, statement, or event will be forgotten within a few weeks.
~ Jacques Ellul
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We share in the sin of the world. We are involved in it because in spite of our faith we are and remain sinners; we are also involved in the sin of humanity through the various 'orders' of life created by God, so that when a an of my family, or of my nation, commits a sin, I am responsible before God for this transgression. Only this truth must not remain merely a verbal one.
~ Jacques Ellul
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qué puede justificar la fidelidad, fuera de la palabra empeñada? Pero la palabra empeñada a menudo se empeña a la ligera. Sino se la empeñase así, es probable que se la empeñaría mucho más raramente.
~ Jacques Lacan
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From an analytic point of view, the only thing one can be guilty of is having given ground relative to one's desire (Seminar 7, 319)
~ Jacques Lacan
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How would you like a job where, every time you make a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?
~ Jacques Plante
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The government does not owe the people education for the simple reason that one does not owe the people what it can take for itself. And education is like liberty: it is not given, it is taken.
~ Jacques Rancière
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Este pu?in provocator, bineîn?eles, dar putem ast?zi s? consider?m omul ca celula canceroas? a organismului Terra. O celul? care prolifereaz? asigurându-?i dezvoltarea în detrimentul altora, distrugându-le pentru a-?i asigura propria sa dezvoltare.
~ Unknown
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interviewer - would you have defended adolf hitler? jacques verges - hell, i'd have even defended bush, as long as he pleads guilty!
~ Jacques Verges
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The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
~ Jacques-Yves Cousteau
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Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
~ Jacques-Yves Cousteau
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The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.
~ Jacques-Yves Cousteau
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That was the trouble with smart men. They thought they had all the answers, and then when life knocked them aside, they thought it was all their faults.
~ Unknown
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A sin that accelerates death and annihilation of man is breaking off paying visits to one's own relatives.
~ Unknown
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Children only come through you, you don't create them. It is a privilege that they have happened through you. Enjoy the privilege; don't think of it as an authority. Just enjoy the privilege that another life chose to come through you into this world.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
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Someone is not stressful because of what he is doing; someone is stressful because he doesn't know how to manage his own inner system. It is not the nature of the job which makes one stressful. You ask the top executive, he is stressful; you ask the office hand, he is also stressful. Everybody believes their job is stressful. No job is stressful. If you have no control over your own inner system, you will be stressful whether you do something or you don't do anything.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
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Someone is not stressful because of what he is doing; someone is stressful because he doesn't know how to manage his own inner system. It is not the nature of the job which makes one stressful. You ask the top executive, he is stressful; you ask the office hand, he is also stressful. Everybody believes their job is stressful. No job is stressful. If you have no control over your own inner system, you will be stressful whether you do something or you don't do anything. Fundamentally
~ Jaggi Vasudev
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What people are suffering is their freedom. That's why it is so tragic. If
~ Jaggi Vasudev
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The quality of your life depends on how well you manage your body, your mind, your emotion, your situations, your home, your communities, nations, your life in general and the world.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
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Sí, los Fundadores nos salvaron del país podrido y pusieron orden —continúa Pascual—. Pero ¿quién nos salva de sus descendientes? ¡Ahora somos sus esclavos!
~ Unknown
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Make it mandatory that all political bigwigs, corporate captains, media owners and medical chiefs will be vaccinated for Covid in the first phase, then very soon news anchors will start saying that that corona virus effect is over worldwide and now there is no need of any vaccination, mask wearing, any further lockdown, sanitiser using and social distancing.
~ Unknown
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If people want to get into leadership through corrupt practices, through corrupt means, I think that's detestable we have to take action.
~ Jakaya Kikwete
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