Quotes About Responsibility

Teenagers can be idiotic and stupid, but teenagers also model their behavior from the signals they get from adults.

Stupidity is the unwillingness to appreciate the consequences of your actions.

Stop whining like a fucking child." "You could have just said, 'I need your help.'" "All right. I need your help. Stop whining like a fucking child." "That's not better.

You're all so busy tending to your own personal tree that you don't look around to see that the forest is on fire.

You don't have paperwork," Savitri said. "You give it all to me." "Is it done?" I asked. "As far as you know, yes," Savitri said.

Now if you'll excuse me, gentlemen, I need to play Russian roulette with our planet's future with the bullet you've so thoughtfully provided. I hope you don't mind if I don't see you out.

After everything, what it all means is that if one day we slip in the bathroom and crack our head on the toilet, our last thoughts can be a satisfied, 'Well, I and only I did this to myself.

I have the power to call you here. As I have the power to condemn you to death. I hope we understand each other.

They didn't mean any harm in it. But of course not meaning harm isn't the same as not doing harm.

so if you live in the United States, and you are reading this prior to November 2020, please do me a favor and (a) Register to vote, or check to make sure your registration is still valid, (b) Remember to vote on election day (or before if you take an early ballot) and (c) Try not to vote for anyone who is a whirling amoral vortex of chaos.

So we're the monster police, too," I said to Tom. "Correct," he replied. "The only real question is, who are the monsters?

It takes a certain kind of dog to willingly demote himself from alpha dog, and that dog was Carl. Holloway would have to speak to him about it, for what little good it would do, Carl being a dog and all.

General Gau had thanked for her candor in this as in all other things and then went ahead and did it anyway.

and Vice President Tony Su. Su's presence was unusual. The president had reverted to the formerly common practice of giving the Vice President absolutely nothing of any importance to do. Su spent most of his time vising elementary schools and working on his putting.

So if he dies during the jump, it'll be my fault," Wilson said. "If he dies during the jump, I would suggest it would be politic for you to follow him

I'm not a good man, Mark," Holloway said. "But I was the right man. And for this, that was enough.

So you would have me take the job simply to avoid something worse.

It's funny to me that when people fuck up, they think 'it was just business' is in any way a defense.

What I owe those I kill is understanding. I owe them the courtesy of recognition; acknowledgement that they were something other than just another thing I had to kill on the way to other things I had to kill.

at the moment, the number of fundamentally selfish and self-interested people that human civilization could tolerate, particularly in the social tranche that could actually have an impact on the fate of humanity, had shrunk considerably

if you live in the United States, and you are reading this prior to November 2020, please do me a favor and (a) Register to vote, or check to make sure your registration is still valid, (b) Remember to vote on election day (or before if you take an early ballot) and (c) Try not to vote for anyone who is a whirling amoral vortex of chaos... John Scalzi October 31, 2019

Maybe that's what's bothering me," I said. "There's no sense of consequence. I just took a living, thinking thing and hurled it into the side of a building. Doing it didn't bother me at all. The fact that it didn't does bother me, Alan. There ought to be consequences to our actions.

Which means I will have failed because of you. I may be low on the diplomatic totem pole, but I am sufficiently high enough on it that when I push you, you will die from the fall." She looked over to Schmidt. "And he'll kill you when he lands.

It's your job to save humanity, Perry." "No pressure there