Quotes About Responsibility

Wainwright, who did his duty more impressively than MacArthur

All men who participate in wars find themselves obliged to do things which, if they are decent people, they afterwards regret.

Soldiers may accept a need to be the first to die in a war, but there is often an unseemly scramble to avoid becoming the last.

All active-minded men the world over are boys at heart, be they generals or privates, and there are few things more stimulating or conducive to high morale and self-confidence than the knowledge that you have been chosen to do something about which others know nothing and which calls for a high standard of efficiency, integrity and courage. Basically, I suppose, it is conceit – a buccaneer complex.

Horace Walpole wrote in the mid-eighteenth century: 'No great country was ever saved by good men, because good men will not go to the lengths that may be necessary.

though a pilot once panicked and baled out over Germany, leaving the rest of his crew to bring the plane home.

Intelligent men found that among the hardest parts of war was the need to accept orders from stupid ones.

Germany's highest commander succumbed to a disease common among senior soldiers of many nationalities and eras: he wished to demonstrate to his government and people that their vastly expensive armed forces could fulfil their fantasies.

All politicians find it hard to address with conviction more than one emergency at a time.

The egregious error committed by US statesmen and commanders was not that of lying to the world, but rather that of lying to themselves.

But what we are, we are, on account of our own diligence or negligence, and what we shall be in the future depends upon what we will to be and not upon Divine caprice or upon inexorable fate. No matter what the circumstances, it lies with us to master them, or to be mastered, as we will.

Yours is the idea, yours the duty.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

The Puritans wanted to be men of the calling--we, on the other hand, must be.

After industry and frugality, nothing contributes more to the raising of a young man in the world than punctuality and justice in all his dealings;

What kind of a man must one be if he is allowed to put his hand on the wheel of history?

St. Paul's "He who will not work shall not eat" holds

Política como vocación). Los funcionarios con un alto sentido ético, tales como los que desgraciadamente han ocupado entre nosotros una y otra vez cargos directivos, son precisamente malos políticos, irresponsables en sentido político y por tanto desde este punto de vista, éticamente detestables.

Política como vocación) La pasión no convierte al hombre en político si no está al servicio de una «causa» y no hace de la responsabilidad para con esa causa la estrella que oriente la acción. Para eso se necesita (y esta es la cualidad psicológica decisiva para el político) la mesura, capacidad para dejar que la realidad actúe sobre uno sin perder el recogimiento y la tranquilidad.

It is certain that there can be no work in political economy on any other than an altruistic basis... If our work is to retain any meaning it can only be informed by this: concern for the future, for those who will come after us.

Cada persona tiene que conocer cuál es el dios o el demonio que maneja los hilos de su vida.

But the person who can do this must be a leader; not only that, he must, in a very simple sense of the word, be a hero.

Consequently, if one's luck is bad, one is liable to be increasingly consumed by feelings of resentment toward the agent or agents that one holds responsible for one's victimhood, and this twisting of one's soul in bitterness is a form of damage that the acknowledgment of the real conditions of academic life could have helped one to avoid or, at the very least, mitigate.

In practice this means that God helps those who help themselves . Thus