Quotes About Responsibility

The world is on fire, young man. As writers, it is only proper that we do what we can to warn people. But in telling the truth to the world, don't lie to yourself. Write whatever you want. Tell the truth. Just don't imagine that you are changing anything. Like I said, people just want to have a good time. -Snagglepuss

No offense, but it seems like the whole point of civilization is to get someone else to do your killing for you.

At the heart of every successful organization is a title-less person.

You don't need a title to be a leader in life. And the simple fact of having a title won't make you a leader.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed. Gandhi

Salvation will not come from the legislators. Salvation will not come from the military. If there is any salvation, it will come from the people. Jayaprakash Narayan

The coming together of two laudable movements -- death with dignity and cost containment -- concerns me Patients have a right to die. But do they have a duty to die

Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship.

The spirit of the age is: Ask not what your country can do for you, demand it.

Freedom is messy. In free societies, people will fall through the cracks--drink too much, eat too much, buy unaffordable homes, fail to make prudent provision for health care, and much else. But the price of being relieved of all those tiresome choices by a benign paternal government is far too high. Big Government is the small option: it's the guarantee of smaller freedom, smaller homes, smaller cars, smaller opportunities, smaller lives.

The populations of wealthy democratic societies expect to have total choice over their satellite TV packages, yet think it perfectly normal to allow the state to make all the choices in respect of their health care. It's a curious inversion of citizenship to demand control over peripheral leisure activities but to contract out the big life-changing stuff to the government.

In a sense we are born in hock: with the national debt hovering around $ 18 trillion, each new baby delivered in America takes her first breath owing approximately $ 57,000.

Grumble as we might about Wall Street felons, we keep the banks in business by lending them our money, paying their interest on mortgages and credit cards, and amassing our savings in their IRAs and money-market accounts. Protest as we might about police killing unarmed black teenagers, white people have created segregated ghettoes by fleeing to "safe neighborhoods" where the public schools are good.

Credit and debt keep us fixated on the past and the future.

find a balance between building a new world and helping to save the existing one.

Let me be clear: I felt bad about the state of the planet, and I was willing to pay extra if it supported an actual farmer instead of the bovine gulag.

hadn't the agrarian Wendell Berry written, "How could we divorce ourselves completely and yet responsibly from the technologies and powers that are destroying our planet? The answer is not yet thinkable.

I don't want my freedom, comfort, and mobility to require killing, polluting, and exploiting.

Father Re put his hand on Pino's shoulder. "It sounds like too much to me, too, Pino, but I'm afraid it's not too much for God to ask of you.

You never want to be the absolute leader in the game of life, the man out front, the one everyone sees and looks to,

You never want to be the absolute leader in the game of life, the man out front, the one everyone sees and looks to," Leyers said.

You can't carry the world's problems on your back. You have to find some happiness in your life, and just do your best with the rest.

I failed you," Pino choked. "Christmas Eve, you were there to stand by me, come what may. And I wasn't there for you. I . . . I don't know why. I can't even explain it to myself. I wish I'd stood against the wall with you, Anna.

Working a man to death is the same as shooting a man to death," the priest said. "Just a different choice of weapons.