Quotes About Responsibility

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of his flock … confident that he is leading his people the right way.

They may have salt, sugar, and fat on their side, but we, ultimately, have the power to make choices. After all, we decide what to buy. We decide how much to eat.

Given these proclivities on the part of food companies—competitive, beholden to Wall Street, and in utter denial about their culpability—an intervention by Washington would certainly seem to be in order.

If you ask Muslim women why they cover up, ninety-nine percent of them will say it's to avoid arousing men. Fuck that, where's your self-accountability?

How things ultimately turn out isn't up to us. It never was. But if do our bit and play our part, it's remarkable how far we can go.

We bear responsibility in the evolution of a higher consciousness for ourselves and others in life. Thus, our journey is a collective one.

Mayors could never get away with the kind of nonsense that goes on in Washington. In our world, you either picked up the trash or you didn't. You either moved an abandoned car or you didn't. You either filled a pothole or you didn't. That's what we do every day. And we know how to get this stuff done.

If you have a deep-seated need to be loved and admired every day, you shouldn't be in politics. You should go work at a pet store.

The pursuit of perfection is far too important to be handed over to the control and direction of a set of people who by blood, force or election have acquired the right to call themselves 'governors'.

If the execution of a million or more sentient beings, the destruction of a dozen planetary communities, isn't enough—if the members of the Council need a living victim paraded in front of them to move them to act—then shame on them. And shame on us.

The stronger you become in the Force, the more that you can do, the more that's expected of you, and the less your life belongs to you.

Purina. If you give her table scraps you're going to have a

The diseconomies of capitalism are treated as the public's responsibility. Corporate America skims the cream and leaves the bill for us to pay, then boasts about how productive and efficient it is and complains about our wasteful government.

Being what we humans are, what else could we do but wrong?

We all cast our own shadows and chose where they fall, and the lives of men and women and otters and dogs and whales are linked forever across the reaches of time. We distance ourselves from them with our hunger for flesh, or our carelessness, or our cruelty. But what of the forces that bind us together?

That's the second time you've apologised in less than a minute, Remo. When you have to do that to an admiral it could be your career on the line.

New Father will go glottal, scrotal, and ballistic on someone driving twenty-seven in a twenty-five-mile-an-hour zone when Baby is astronauted in the backseat.

It was my sister's fault. She brought...books home before I was old enough to check them out of the library myself.

That's the mark of a good office. The people who do the work get on with it without bothering to tell the boss.

Parents must be sensitive to their role in the child's moral development. One day he is going to choose without you. Will he make the right choice? No amount of training is going to override the certainty of sin developing in the child's life, but the training parents give can lessen the child's addiction to the flesh and make it easier for repentance to follow his sinful indulgence.

You hold an eternal soul in your hands. You cannot afford to give in to weariness, indifference, laziness, or careless neglect. God chose you two as the parents of these children! It is now your responsibility to determine what level of understanding your child possesses and to hold him accountable at that level.

Everything a child experiences, either by way of indulgence or the self-restraint you impose, is preparing him for the day when he will mature into a responsible, moral soul. Somewhere on that road of development, each child will graduate to commence his full accountability. That child then stands alone before God, "without excuse." It becomes his day of accountability.

It may take several times, but if you are consistent, they will learn to consistently obey, even in your absence.

Parent, you can't blame your children if you have trained them to obey only after several warnings, threats, an ultimatum or two, and finally with a gesture of force. It's not their fault. It's yours.