Quotes About Responsibility

Pedepsele nu sunt împ?rÈ›ite muritorilor de o guvernan?? ar??goas? sau de un dasc?l despotic; nu, pedeapsa e rezultatul logic, consecin?? inevitabil? a faptei rele.

Ba???lamay?n. Ba???lama, ba???lamadan önce suçlar; suçlayarak,kusuru [suçu] olumlayarak, onu geri al?namaz k?lar, vurmay? (coup) suçluluÄŸa (culpabilité) kadar götürür; böylece art?k hiçbir ÅŸey onar?lamaz, verme ve ba???lama olanakl? olmaktan ç?kar. Yaln?zca masumiyeti ba???la. Seni ba???lad???m için beni ba???la.

Peoples bear the weight of curses longer than the princes who incur them.

Prince Edward confirmed the sentence; but he was reflecting deeply and beginning silently to form views as to how a man destined to great responsibilities should behave. To listen before speaking, to inform yourself before judging, to understand before deciding, and to remember always that there were to be found in every man the springs both of the highest as well as the lowest actions: these, for a sovereign, were the first steps towards wisdom.

On lui donnait le moyen de se sauver seul. Tout homme sensé, à qui l'on fait une proposition de cette sorte, la considère, et n'en a que plus de mérite lorsqu'il la repousse. (Le roi de fer, partie 3, ch. 6, p. 322)

God does not need to intervene directly to punish perjury, and the heavens may remain dumb. The wicked bear within themselves the seeds of their own misfortunes.

As an alcoholic, you have no appreciation for your wife or your children's feelings, but I'm making up for that now. I'm winning my children's trust back.

Silence your dog, captain!

Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.

Nations have the government which they deserve, or rather, the government which they have is truly no more than the magnified and public projection of the private morality and mentality of the nation.

No nation permits herself to be coerced to the one crime that man cannot pardon. It is of her own accord that she hastens towards it; her chief has no need to persuade, it is she who urges him on.

And indeed, if we had only the courage to listen to the simplest, the nearest, most pressing voice of our conscience, and be deaf to all else, it were doubtless our solitary duty to relieve the suffering about us to the greatest extent in our power.

To abstain from violence toward the violent is to become their accomplice.

There is equal weakness in blaming ourselves alone and in believing only in external causes. In one way or another we will always miss the mark if we do. Evil is not created by us or by others; it is born in this web that we have spun about us—and that is suffocating us. What sufficiently tough new men will be patient enough to really reweave it?

There is a sort of maleficence in history: it solicits men, tempts them so that they believe they are moving in its direction, and then suddenly it unmasks, and events change and prove that there was another possibility. The men whom history abandons in this way and who see themselves simply as accomplices suddenly find themselves the instigators of a crime to which history has inspired them. And they are unable to look for excuses or to excuse themselves from even a part of the responsibility.

True philosophy entails learning to see the world anew, and in this sense, an historical account might signify the world with as much 'depth' as a philosophical treatise. We take our fate into our own hands and through reflection we become responsible for our own history, but this responsibility also comes from a decision to which we commit our lives; and in both cases it is a violent act whose truth is confirmed through its being performed.

Psychoanalysis does not reveal an ego that operates behind my back; it links the unconscious to the conscious. We do not want to take responsibility for the unconscious...The unconscious is not a second consciousness, but a nonthematized lived experience...If it is not thematically known, is not inevitably unknown to us who live it.

When a man pities himself, he feels he is owed—like the dog. If you feel that you are owed, you will never begin truly to work on yourself.

I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! It's an art form. I talk a lot. And I think a lot. And I draw a lot. But never in a million years would I have been a parent. That's just work that's too hard.

I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.

We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.

El silencio es el verdadero crimen de lesa humanidad.

Middle-class parents have been forced to invest more in their children while being guaranteed less by employers and the government," writes journalist Patrick A. Coleman in Fatherly.

Authors with a mortgage never get writer's block. –