Quotes About Responsibility

The important thing about leadership is not what happens when you're there but what happens when you are not there.

If I am responsible for having accrued a handsome share of worldly goods—income and wealth, power and prestige—I must deserve them. Success is a sign of virtue. My affluence is my due.

Government may not interfere with individual liberty in order to protect a person from himself, or to impose the majority's beliefs about how best to live. The only actions for which a person is accountable to society, Mill argues, are those that affect others. As long as I am not harming anyone else, my "independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign."19

If meritocracy is an aspiration, those who fall short can always blame the system; but if meritocracy is a fact, those who fall short are invited to blame themselves.

Meritocratic sorting taught us that our success is our own doing, and so eroded our sense of indebtedness.

Construing populist protest as either malevolent or misdirected absolves governing elites of responsibility for creating the conditions that have eroded the dignity of work and left many feeling disrespected and disempowered. The diminished economic and cultural status of working people in recent decades is not the result of inexorable forces; it is the result of the way mainstream political parties and elites have governed.

Chúng ta là nô l? c?a sá»± ham mu?n và khát khao c?a chính mình

Tôi không có quy?n tÆ°á»›c Ä'o?t Ä'i m?ng s?ng c?a chính b?n thân tôi hay ng??i khác.

The "less educated are seen as responsible and blameworthy for their situation, even by the less-educated themselves.

Los liberales igualitarios que defienden el Estado del bienestar sobre la base del igualitarismo de la suerte se ven condenados, casi inevitablemente, a recurrir a una retórica de la victimización que describe a los perceptores de ayudas como individuos sin agencia, incapaces de actuar de forma responsable.

Sin embargo, ayudar a los desfavorecidos porque son víctimas de circunstancias que escapan a su control tiene un precio moral y cívico elevado. Da pábulo a la idea denigrante de que los perceptores de ayudas públicas tienen poco que contribuir y son incapaces de ser agentes responsables.

Em condições de desigualdade desenfreada e de mobilidade social estagnada, a repetição da mensagem de que somos responsáveis pelo nosso destino e que merecemos o que recebemos corrói a solidariedade e desmoraliza aqueles que foram deixados para trás pela globalização.

work, at its best, is a socially integrating activity, an arena of recognition, a way of honoring our obligation to contribute to the common good.

maximizing welfare, respecting freedom, and promoting virtue. Each of these ideas points to a different way of thinking about justice.

If the anti-abortion movement took a tenth of the energy they put into noisy theatrics and devoted it to improving the lives of children who have been born into lives of poverty, violence, and neglect, they could make a world shine.

The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.

The surest way to escape anxiety and defeat despair is action. Do, don't dwell.

If you are the boss it's wise to remember that there are lots of things you don't know and lots of people who hope you won't find out.

We judge ourselves by our best acts and most noble intentions, but we will be judged by our last worst act.

What you allow, you encourage.

The White House Situation Room is not just a room. It is a complex of multiple spaces manned 24/7 by rotating teams of duty officers and communications specialists. Team members are on loan from intelligence agencies, the State Department, and the military services.

In the years since, rule number one in crisis management, whether in the White House or during run-of-the-mill Washington scandals, has been "Tell the truth and tell it early.

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The hand that mixes the Georgetown martini," Henry Kissinger observed, "is time and again the hand that guides the destiny of the Western world.