Quotes About Responsibility

let me tell you what's more immoral. Doing nothing. Sitting back in your comfortable chair in your comfortable home thinking that just because you sponsor a child in Zambia you're doing enough.

You ever considered the possibility that you might be an alcoholic?" "Nope. Alcoholics go to meetings," he replies. "I don't go to meetings.

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.' And another time, 'The grass isn't greener on the other side. It's greener where you water it.

Every society gets the criminals it deserves" is her philosophy. "And the police force it's willing to pay for, rather than the one it insists upon.

Kinder zu lieben, ist leicht. Sie zu behalten, ist schwer.

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.

The whole idea of getting married and having children terrifies me. What if becoming a parent doesn't make me grow up? It could be just a cheap disguise. It's not cheap.

I believe it's a cook's moral obligation to add more butter given the chance.

Food is about community. It's about the earth and really taking care of the earth.

I mean, I think even God would agree with this at this point. God's existence isn't important. It's what we do with what we've got that counts.

second point is how to think about the very concept of personal responsibility in a mechanistic and social world. It is a given that all network systems, social or mechanical, need accountability in order to work.

It was important for Bob Noyce to be liked, which paralyzed his ability to fire people or reposition them downward, even when the company and those who worked for it were at risk.

A miserable Noyce told a friend, "For a few goddamned points on Wall Street, we have to ruin people's lives.

Letting rich countries buy their way out of meaningful changes in their own wasteful habits reinforces a bad attitude—that nature is a dumping ground for those who can afford it.

Every captain knew it was his job to deliver cargo as cheaply and as quickly as possible," one Great Lakes captain commented long after the loss of the Edmund Fitzgerald, "and if you didn't measure up, the company would replace you with a captain who would measure up.

Knowledge itself is never dangerous, it is how that knowledge is used that is dangerous

Adults, Sophie has decided a long time before, were really bad at making up good excuses.

You know what we have to do?" The Italian nodded. "I know." "You don't look too happy about it." "Defacing a beautiful building is a crime." "But killing people is not?" Dee asked. "Well, people can always be replaced.

Do you know the greatest gift a parent can give to a child?" she asked, looking around the room. No one answered. "Independence. To allow them go out into the world and make their own decisions, travel their own paths.

But what you must remember is that knowledge itself is never dangerous," Tsagaglalal insisted. "It is how that knowledge is used that is dangerous.

Hacía tiempo que Sophie había llegado a la conclusión de que a los adultos se les daba realmente mal inventar excusas creíbles

Pero no olvides que la sabiduría nunca es peligrosa. Lo verdaderamente peligroso es el modo en que se usa.

These poor beasts are driven solely by their need to survive and to feed. It is their nature, and their nature has made them predictable. But man, on the other hand, has the capacity to change his nature. Man is the only animal that can destroy the world. Beasts live only in the present, but humans have the capacity to live for the future, to lay down plans for their children and grandchildren, plans that can take years, decades, even centuries, to mature.

Great change always comes down to the actions of a single person.