Quotes About Responsibility

what is the good of a nice house without a decent planet to put it on H.D.Thoreau

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves poison the fountain.

Some psychologists have believed we are conditioned by what happened to us in childhood—in essence laying the blame on parents. But as Christians, we believe that we decide how we will react to what happens to us. We ourselves are responsible.

You've got to learn in life, you've got to learn it quick and keep it for the rest of your life: pull your own strings, and have no puppetmaster – and – habits – are – puppetmasters.

So the final lesson of 1918, a simple one yet one most difficult to execute, is that those who occupy positions of authority must lessen the panic that can alienate all within a society. Society cannot function if it is every man for himself. By definition, civilization cannot survive that. Those in authority must retain the public's trust. The way to do that is to distort nothing, to put the best face on nothing, to try to manipulate no one. Lincoln said that first, and best.

Other recommendations are generally simple and obvious: for example, keeping sick children home from school—which is standard behavior—and having sick adults stay home from work—which is not standard behavior

Wilson declared, "It isn't an army we must shape and train for war, it is a nation.

Part of that relationship requires political leaders to understand the truth—and to be able to handle the truth.

when faced with desperate patients, doctors often do not have the heart—or, more accurately, they have too much heart—to do nothing.

For if there is a single dominant lesson from 1918, it's that governments need to tell the truth in a crisis.

Despite that effort, whoever held power, whether a city government or some private gathering of the locals, they generally failed to keep the community together. They failed because they lost trust. They lost trust because they lied. (San Francisco was a rare exception; its leaders told the truth, and the city responded heroically.) And they lied for the war effort, for the propaganda machine that Wilson had created.

So the problems presented by a pandemic are, obviously, immense. But the biggest problem lies in the relationship between governments and the truth.

execute, is that those who occupy positions of authority must lessen the panic that can alienate all within a society.

positions of authority must lessen the panic that can alienate all within a society.

problems presented by a pandemic are, obviously, immense. But the biggest problem lies in the relationship between governments and the truth. • • • Part of that relationship requires political leaders to understand the truth—and to be able to handle the truth. If there's a lesson from the 2009 pandemic, it's that too many governments were incapable of doing so.

in New York State coughing or sneezing without covering the face was now punishable by a year in jail and a $500 fine

A decade later Brand's Whole Earth Catalog would begin with the premise "We are as gods and might as well get good at it.

The purpose of school, Zimbardo notes, is to turn present-oriented little beasts into responsible future-oriented children.

Stay focus on what God has assigned me to do. Keep my mind on what I am doing/

The best leaders are humble enough to realise their victories depend upon their people.

However, lowering transaction costs is a task not only for entrepreneurs, but also for public policy. The government has the responsibility to establish and maintain an environment within which markets can work efficiently. (I will refer to this aspect of market design as formal or top-down.)

mother like son' is a saying so true, the world will judge largely of mother by you.

Ah, why should all mankind For one man's fault, be condemned, If guiltless?

They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness.