Quotes About Responsibility

Sociopaths sometimes use their hypochondriasis as a strategy to get out of doing work. One moment they are fine, but then it is time to pay the bills or look for a job or help a friend move to a new apartment, and suddenly they have chest pains or a limp. And imaginary medical concerns and infirmities often secure special treatment, such as the one last chair in an overcrowded room.

when confronted with a destructive outcome that is clearly their doing, they will say, plain and simple, "I never did that," and will to all appearances believe their own direct lie.

Asked about our sense that we are not safe in our own world, Albert Einstein once said, "The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

A substantial proportion of people do what they are told to do, irrespective of the content of the act and without limitations of conscience, so long as they perceive that the command comes from a legitimate authority.

We feel that if someone is bad, he should be burdened with the knowledge that he is bad. It seems to us the ultimate injustice that a person could be evil, by our assessment , and still feel fine about himself.

I don't know why, because it's one of those things I'm not contractually obligated to care about.

This is why I didn't want to come. I've got four perfectly good humans here and I didn't want them to get killed by whatever took out DeltFall. It's not like I cared about them personally, but it would look bad on my record, and my record was already pretty terrible.

Iris: "Peri, you can't bomb the colony." Perihelion: "You are incorrect, Iris, I can bomb the colony.

I yelled, "No!" which I'm not supposed to do; I'm always supposed to speak respectfully to the clients, even when they're about to accidentally commit suicide.

I'd hacked my governor module and kept doing my job because I didn't know what else to do (except you know, a murderous rampage, but murderous rampages are overrated and interfere with one's ability to keep watching media)

Fucking up a planet, even part of a planet, for no reason was kind of a big deal, and I was surprised they had gotten away with it. Okay, no, I wasn't surprised.

humans are so fucking unreliable when it comes to maintaining data.

Don't look at me like that's my fault. I'm just telling you shit I know.

these weren't intrepid galactic explorers. They were people who had been doing a job and suddenly found themselves in a terrible situation.

His biggest rule was that you didn't involve anyone who wasn't already playing the game. Or, as he phrased it, if you have to kill innocent bystanders, then your planning is at fault and someone should best eliminate you.

You know, if you don't want to be manually eviscerated with your own energy weapon then maybe you shouldn't go around killing research transports and antagonizing rogue SecUnits.

I know this sounds suspiciously like a rationale I had come up with to keep from doing something I didn't want to do anyway, but hey, I can't help that.)

You don't have to thank me for doing my stupid job. But it is nice.

Nobody was touching my humans. To make sure of that I had to kill these two rogue Units. I could have pulled out at this point, sabotaged the hoppers, and got my humans out of there, leaving the rogue Units stuck on the other side of an ocean; that would have been the smart thing to do.

If the humans see me actually doing my job, it helps keep suspicions from forming about faulty governor modules.

This was no time to be an idiot.

Jade turned to Malachite, incredulous. "We're going to help them fight off a Fell flight." Malachite didn't take her gaze off the sky. "I am." A growl rose in Jade's throat. She shouldn't have been surprised. The bloodline resemblance between Moon and Malachite was particularly strong, though Moon couldn't see it. And you have five of them back home in the nurseries, she reminded herself.

We're not murderers, Tremaine. We're killers. There's a difference. A small difference, but a difference nonetheless.

I don't know why, because it's one of those things I'm not contractually obligated to care about.