Quotes About Responsibility

what right [do] people in wealthy countries have to blame the poor for their poverty, much less for humanity's environmental dilemma, when it [is] rich countries' consumption patterns that [are] responsible for the vast majority of the world's resource depletion and ecosystem destruction?

The government has incredible powers at its disposal, and when it abuses those powers, someone has to stand up.

A waitress had come out of nowhere. "What can I get you?" ?I looked around the table, only to realize that everyone was staring at me. ?"Uh... five... beers?" ? "Five beers." ?"Yup!" ?"Any particular kind?" ?"…good ones?" ? "Can I see your ID?" ? "Goddammit." I handed it over.

We often blame things that happen to us on Satan, but we must remember that Satan can only be one place at a time

Those who are rich in the things of this world need to remember that all they possess come from the Creator. He owns it all. This is a relevant reminder in our day as well:

What will you do with Jesus?      Neutral you cannot be.      Someday your heart will be asking,           What will He do with me?

From a very early age, my wife and I told our son that there are times and places for everything. I told him, look, when you're in class, you have to be quiet and listen to your teacher, but when you go out to the playground, you can scream and be silly.

Blame the promoter, not me. Damn you!

Adventure becomes hubris when it blinds you to the suffering of the human beings next to you.

Live like a student while you are in school, so you don't have to live like a student after you graduate.

The growth in education debt outstanding is like cooking a lobster, The increase in total student debt occurs slowly but steadily, so by the time you notice that the water is boiling, you're already cooked." http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2010/08/09/student-loan-debt-surpasses-credit-cards/

It is not an overstatement to say that the destiny of the entire human race depends on what is going on in America today. This is a staggering reality to the rest of the world; they must feel like passengers in a supersonic jetliner who are forced to watch helplessly while a passel of drunks, hypes, freaks, and madmen fight for the controls and the pilot's seat. – Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice, 1968

When God's people fail to live our call, the church buries the gospel.

One key problem with private prisons is that private prison profiteers are harder to hold accountable for human rights violations and inhumane conditions.

The skeptic often retorts that the "criminally-minded" regularly refuse to admit their own wrongdoing and responsibility. But this is a callous and self-justifying skepticism that overlooks just how easy it is to fall down the road to prison as a result of others' unfair practices, vicious action, or because of the vicissitudes of navigating corporate-driven dispossession, poverty, and racism.

Even when our carceral state locks away the truly violent offender, it is thereby hiding the social, political, and economic structural forces that are the genesis of such violence. Locking up the violent offender is a way to focus attention away from elites' structural responsibility for generating the conditions of violence.

We're all Americans and we owe that to each other. That's what liberalism means.

A citizen, simply by virtue of being a citizen, is one of us. We have stood together to defend the country against foreign adversaries in the past. Now we must stand together at home to make sure that none of us faces the risk of being left behind. We're all Americans and we owe that to each other. That's what liberalism means.

For a brief review of our history to date shows us in a very singular role:that of serial killers.

As James Lovelock writes, 'Mother Earth' is now an old lady in her sixties, no longer as resilient as she once was. With our conscious actions, we are now measurably shortening her lifespan.

When faced with a challenging or difficult situation, the best leaders most often respond with courage; less mature leaders, or nonleaders often choose another path-a path with less risk, less conflict, and less personal discomfort.

The best leaders don't blame others. They own their actions and their outcomes.

When leaders lead well, not everyone is going to be happy.

If you feel the need to make everyone happy, you should be a wedding planner not a leader.