Quotes About Responsibility

No choice is the wrong choice as long as you make a choice, the only wrong choice is choosing not to make one

As far as babysitting tips go, I recommend a few quick questions to the parents when you want to get out early. Like, "Is it all right for the baby to have . . . bleach?"

When a rat pokes his head up from the sewer, he needs to be hit on the head with a shovel immediately. You cannot just sit back and think, 'Well, it's just one rat' or 'That's somebody else's problem.' Because it's never just one rat, and it eventually becomes your problem.

Have you ever wondered to yourself why it is that all people like me seem to have learned from you is how to imprison and murder each other, how to govern badly, and how to take the wealth of our country and place it in Swiss bank accounts? Have you ever wondered why it is that all we seem to have learned from you is how to corrupt our societies and how to be tyrants? You will have to accept that this is mostly your fault

she talked in one of her memoirs of ignoring her little brother when she was supposed to be looking after him: "I liked reading a book much more than I liked looking after him (and even now I like reading a book more than I like looking after my own children...)

But no longer could I aks God what to do, since the answer, I was sure, would not suit me. I could do what suited me know, as long as I could pay for it. 'As long as I could pay for it.' That phrase soon became the tail that wagged my dog. If I had died then, it should have been my epigraph.

Like her, all of the members of this organization were well off but they made no connection between their comforts and the decline of the world that lay before them.

they were talking about themselves, and they seemed to take for granted that everything they said mattered. They were artists. I had heard of people in this position. I had never seen an example in the place where I came from. I noticed that mostly they were men. It seemed to be a position that allowed for irresponsibility, so perhaps it was much better suited to men.

Considering that no man is an Island, and no man is above the Law. Then, breaking the law is a penalty all citizen should endure."

For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it.

I believe it is the nature of people to be heroes, given the chance.

The dead are dead but they rely on us to fulfill their hopes.

Just because I'm a murdering, thieving, cowardly, traitorous sort doesn't mean I can't do my job properly.

Live deliberately. Decide: are you the kind of person things happen to, or the kind of person who makes things happen?

A choice with no consequences has no value. Making a choice knowing there will be consequences, and being willing to bear them, is what distinguishes the right choices from the wrong ones.

These days, managers are little more than peers with additional administrative responsibility. Sucking up to them is not a good use of your time.

In every child who is born, under no matter what circumstances, and no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again; and in him, too, one more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility towards human life; towards the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of error, and of God.

Begetting a child is at least as serious an act as murder...

If you agree to work for us, half the time you won't know the purpose of your duties . . . and when we do explain, we might not be telling the truth. But that's the real world, folks . . .

That's the first rule of command; be consistent! You can be sadistic, you can be lazy, you can be stupid, but if you're consistent the crew will still let you sit in when they play dominoes.

I have betrayed no confidence and no trust. I simply wrote a letter in which I stated the truth--for the Government or anybody else.' 'A letter in which you accuse the Government...' 'Of course I accuse. If the Government uses falsehoods and the blind eye to conduct its affairs, then shouldn't I accuse? If I am betraying a trust to reveal it, then I am still right and you cannot make me wrong.

He simply wanted more money without additional responsibility. A sound investment. That is the sort of fellow that makes other people's Empire possible. Sells his birthright to a foreigner.

Any marnin' th' good Lord lets'ee open your eyes, that's a day he's got somethin' f'r ye t' do.

Man is always the master, even in his weaker and most abandoned state; but in his weakness and degradation he is the foolish master who misgoverns his household.