Quotes About Responsibility

That is why I took up the gun — not to shoot, not to kill, not to destroy, but to stop those who would do evil, to protect the vulnerable, to defend democratic values, to stand up for the freedom we have to talk … about how we can make the world a better place.

Don't let your stuff be a battlefield for your relationships. Instead of focusing on whose mess it is, think of it as a group problem that you're going to solve together. Don't use words like "yours" and "mine." Talk about the clutter and challenges surrounding it as "ours.

Live with the consequences of your deeds and enjoy the warmth they create. The only warmth in the cold, indifferent universe is that which we create ourselves. And that is what a work of art is, it is what a constructed life is, a fulfilled life, the warmth of acts.

Si Dios no existe, todo queda permitido.» FIODOR DOSTOIEVSKI

Property damage is so much easier to live with than murder.

IF YOU ARE GIVEN A CHOICE, YOU BELIEVE YOU HAVE ACTED FREELY.

if you're smart enough to do the job, you're too smart to trust with the controls.

WHY SHOULD MAN EXPECT HIS PRAYER FOR MERCY TO BE HEARD BY WHAT IS ABOVE HIM WHEN HE SHOWS NO MERCY TO WHAT IS UNDER HIM? —Pierre Troubetzkoy

The gut was not a long-range organ. Its grasp of culpability degraded exponentially with distance; there

Democrats can neither control nor predict whether our GOP counterparts are really ready to play chicken with the U.S. economy. But we can assure the American people that our party takes the nation's faith and credit seriously.

Pico argued that, unlike all the rest of creation, mankind has been assigned no fixed role by God, but is free to create its own identity and its own future, even aspiring to divinity itself.

Evil does not exist in isolation. It is a product of amorality by consensus.

I've said goodbye to the overworked notion that architecture has to save the world.

With this assumption of awareness and responsibility, increased response-ability becomes possible. This means that the more fully I can become aware of who I am and what I am doing at this moment, the more freedom I can experience to change and the more I am able to choose my responses.

And what is the cause hereof, but only our own lightness & daintiness: for we seem to be good for nothing else, but to be tossed hither & thither like a Tennise bal, being creatures of very short life, of infinite carefulness, & yet ignorant unto what shore to sail with our ship

Hürriyete ve mes'uliyete inanan bir adam?n asla filozof olam?yaca??n? Ferit ilk defa o anda dü?ündü.

Bir taraf?n hatas? gerçe?i 'hususi ve ferdi'ye ba?lamamas?, öteki taraf?n hatas? 'umumi ve mü?terek'e ba?lamas?d?r. Bir ?ey var olabilmek için hususi ve umumi vas?flara ayn? derecede muhtaç oldu?una göre, gerçe?i bunlardan yaln?z birine ba?lamak mümkün de?ildir.

Roman kad?n? olmak istiyor, mesele ç?karmaya u?ra??yor, kimseye kar?? mes'ul de?il, serbest, hâli vakti yerinde, bizimle oynuyor." dedi. ... Tek ba??na oturmu?, muhayyyilesini istedi?i gibi kurup i?letiyor ve kendisine harikulade bir hayat aldan??? uydurmak gayretinde.

My dad told us up front, 'Guys, if you want to play sports, go ahead, but it's your decision.'

Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.

You know, there's one other thing I don't do, Vince. I don't have dirty, unprotected sex with some money grubbing skank who eventually files a paternity suit against me, which gets me kicked out of my own house and leaves me nothing but a living, breathing national disgrace.

Scottish writer George MacDonald once said, "No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear. Never load yourself so.

The world is in your hands, now use it.

As my dad said, you have an obligation to leave the world better than how you found it. And he also reminded us to be givers in this life, and not takers.