Quotes About Responsibility

Lennox was furious with his son, who had brought all his plans of the past twenty years to the verge of catastrophe.

It was now up to Mary herself to see if she could reshuffle their discarded hand.

Sex was obligatory for a queen consort of France.

Mary was an anointed queen, accountable to God alone.

then to shift the blame for it onto the shoulders of others.

Mary had done her duty in marrying Francis and had showered him with signs of affection. But she had never loved him.

Within a fortnight of her arrival, Mary knew that her whole future lay in Cecil's hands.

Whatever humanity does, it should be directed toward bringing order out of non-order. Our use of the environment should not impose disorder. This is not just a house that we inhabit; it is our divinely gifted home, and we are accountable for our use of it and work in it.

Since my money is God's money, every spending decision I make is a spiritual decision.

The entitlement state of mind has created a nation that looks to the government for the answer to our problems, when the only answer is, "Our Father which art in heaven.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer said, "Silence in the face of evil is itself evil; God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act." Our generation has mastered the art of looking the other way when evil presents its face of terror and death.

If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth -- beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals -- would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?

God has created me to do some definite service. He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission. I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for naught. I shall do good; I shall do His work.

Mankind must destroy anti-humanity before it becomes extinct itself.

Even as a grown-up, I love pretending to be a grown-up.

As a father now myself, it's sobering to think about how the smallest comments will ripple through your children's lives, with some leaving permanent warps. I must console myself in the certainty that I am helping them and damaging them in other ways I cannot see.

When you live in New York or any big city, it is easy to fail at growing up. The city is designed to keep you in a state of perpetual adolescence.

these moments you wonder what you are teaching their kids, and your own. Then you realize you are teaching them the truth about America.

Single people who don't get pets in their twenties have to do other things to pretend they are grown-ups, like get married.

cat's feelings, and neither do you. It is not your pet anymore. It is an asshole who lives with you.

I love my father. It's not his fault that he made up a fear and, in order to make it feel more real to him, gave it to me. I was obviously built to receive it. As a father now myself, it's sobering to think about how the smallest comments will ripple through your children's lives, with some leaving permanent warps.

We are the only creators, the only gods. Guilty gods, negated gods, damaged, schizophrenic gods, but above all self- changing gods.

We are the sole creators of the system which entraps us.

In order to protect our jobs, our visas, our profits, our chances of receiving good grades, our sanity, we pretend not to see, we sanitise our own perception, filtering out the pain, pretending that it is not here but out there, far away, in Africa, in Russia, a hundred years ago, in an otherness that, by being alien, cleanses our own experience of all negativity.