Quotes About Responsibility

Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country

If we fail, then freedom fails.

Victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan

A country cannot afford to ignore its poor and disadvantaged. Common humanity means that we should not.

Cell phones are to adults what toy rattles are to infants.

Jangan tanyakan apa yang negara ini berikan kepadamu tapi tanyakan apa yang telah kamu berikan kepada negaramu.

It is our task in our time and in our generation to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours.

El éxito tiene muchos padres, pero el fracaso es huérfano.

The business of the government is the business of the people.

For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human life

There is no plan. All is hazard. And the only thing that will preserve us is ourselves.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.

Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good.

Wealth is a monster. It takes a month to learn to control it financially. And many years to learn to control it psychologically.

Some people would say- you're only a drop, your word-breaking is only a drop, it wouldn't matter. But all the evil in the world's made up of little drops. It's silly talking about the unimportance of the little drops. The little drops and the ocean are the same thing.

Knowledge of my atrocious selfishness, settled on me. All those bitter home truths she had flung at me, right from the beginning…and still loved me; was so blind that she still loved me. One day she had said: When you love me (and she had not meant "make love to me") it's as if God forgave me for being the mess I am; and I took it as chicanery, another emotional blackmail, to make me feel essential and so give me a sense of responsibility towards her.

Why should people have money if they don't know how to use it?

If I could only escape, if I could only escape... he murmured the words to himself a dozen times; then metaphorically shook himself for being so impractical, so romantic, so dutiless.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical, and I was never accomplished at that. 'I

He had not the benefit of existentialist terminology; but what he felt was a very clear case of the anxiety of freedom - that is, the realization that one is free and the realization that being free is a situation of terror

La maldad de todo el mundo está compuesta por millones de pequeñas gotas. Es una idiotez hablar de la falta de importancia de esas pequeñas gotas. Las pequeñas gotas y el océano son la misma cosa.

Fiecare moarte apas? asupra celor vii, fiecare moarte apas? cu povara grea a complicit??ii; fiecare moarte este absurd?, l?sându-i pe ceilalÈ›i cu un sentiment de permanent? vinov??ie È™i o tristeÈ›e f?r? sfârÈ™it.

O s?-mi r?spunzi: "Pentru c? existau copii care mureau de foame în vreme ce tu cântai în soare". Ar trebui deci s? nu mai avem palate, s? nu mai avem gusturi rafinate, bucurii de tot felul, s? nu mai d?m curs imaginaÈ›iei. Lumea trebuie s? aib? un scop ascendent c?tre bucurii mai înalte, fericire mai mult? pentru membrii societ??ii.