Quotes About Responsibility

We're proud to help,'' said Wilson. "We're beholden to you,'' said Pa. "There's no beholden in a time of dying,'' said Wilson, and Sairy echoed him, "Never no beholden.

The turntable drops down and the record swings into its place in the pile. The purple light goes off. The nickel, which has caused all this mechanism to work, has caused Crosby to sing and an orchestra to play—this nickel drops from between the contact points into the box where the profits go. This nickel, unlike most money, has actually done a job of work, has been physically responsible for a reaction.

The bank is something else than men. It happens that every man in a bank hates what the bank does, and yet the bank does it. The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it.

a damn about us. We don't have to sit-in no bar room blowin' in our jack jus' because we got no place else to go. If them other guys gets in jail they can rot for all anybody gives a damn. But not us." Lennie broke in. "But not us! An' why? Because . . . . because I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why." He laughed delightedly. "Go on now, George!

Will said, Are we partners? yes sir yes Will yes Will How soon can you get $5000? by next Wednesday shake Solemnly the stout man and the lean dark boy shook hands. Will, still holding Cals hand said Now were partners.

Don't you dare take the lazy way. It's too easy to excuse yourself because of your ancestry.

He remembered hearing a doctor say, I love to deliver a baby, because if I do my work well, there's joy at the end of it. The sheriff had thought often of that remark. It seemed to him that if he did his work well there was sorrow at the end of it for somebody. The fact that it was necessary was losing its weight with him. He would be retiring soon whether he wanted to or not.

Adam asked, "Do you know where your brother is?" "No, I don't," said Cal. "Weren't you with him at all?" "No." "He hasn't been home for two nights. Where is he?" "How do I know?" said Cal. "Am I supposed to look after him?

She seemed to know that if she swayed the family shook, and if she ever deeply wavered or despaired the family would fall.

an' a man, strong an' healthy, ain't never no burden.

Some of the owner men were kind because they hated what they had to do, and some of them were angry because they hated to be cruel, and some of them were cold because they had long ago found that one could not be an owner unless one were cold. And all of them were caught in something larger than themselves.

Well, tell me. You see, there's a responsibility in being a person. It's more than just taking up space where air would be. What

Nenhuma tribo selvagem, nenhum invasor foi alguma vez responsável pelas crueldades estúpidas e deliberadas dos alemães, que arrasaram a Ucrânia como crianças cruéis e frenéticas.

Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental or spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.

It still remains unrecognised, that to bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being able, not only to provide food for its body, but instruction and training for its mind, is a moral crime, both against the unfortunate offspring and against society; and that if the parent does not fulfil this obligation, the State ought to see it fulfilled, at the charge, as far as possible, of the parent.

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.

She had willed herself open to him and knew that the chemistry of love was all within her, her doing. Even his power to wound her with neglect was a power she had created and granted ...

Who'll hold families together, if everybody has to live? Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want.

Right and wrong aren't dropped from the sky. We. We make them. Against misery. Invariably, Harry, invariably--he grows confident of his ability to negotiate long words--misery follows their disobedience. Not our own, often at first not our own.

Was she asleep? He groped beside the bed, among his underclothes, for his wristwatch. He would soon learn, in undressing, to leave it lying discreetly visible. Its silent gold-rimmed face, a tiny banker's face, stated that he had already been out to lunch an hour and forty minutes. A sour burning began to revolve in his stomach.

All these prohibitions old people think up. I think people should be free to do what they want unless it's hurting someone else.