Quotes About Responsibility

Often the greatest act of courage is admitting that one has made a mistake. [...] Follow your hearts. Protect one another, trust one another, because, at the end of the day, all of these people want something from you, or want you to do something for them, or be something that you are not. Your own responsibility is to one another.

I think being a parent is the most challenging thing you do. That's why we're here. It's at the heart of what it is to be a human being. It's the ultimate experience because it questions everything about who you are. But it's difficult.

On the one hand Twitter gives you the opportunity to engage with people, which is great, but on the other there are people who feel they can say whatever they want, put poison out there, really, without fear of any repercussions.

really didn't care [about nuclear plant safety] because there are too many people in the world anyway. . . . I think that playing dirty, if you have a noble end, is fine.

Michael Shellenberger

When a New York Times reporter asked Oppenheimer how he felt after the bomb was tested on July 16, 1945, the father of the atomic bomb said, "Lots of boys not grown up yet will owe their life to it.

environmental scientists, journalists, and activists have an obligation to describe environmental problems honestly and accurately, even if they fear doing so will reduce their news value or salience with the public.

Greta Thunberg, in 2019. "I don't want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic."20

When you have people making decisions they are essentially compelled to make," he said, "that's what I'm referring to as 'an unmanageable situation.

Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever known.

Yet basically, libertarians are for freedom and liberty for individuals, while recognizing that in order to be free we must also be protected. Your freedom to swing your arms ends at my nose.

The Liberty Principle: It is a higher moral principle to always seek liberty with someone else's liberty in mind, and never seek liberty when it leads to someone else's loss of liberty through force or fraud. The Liberty Principle is an extrapolation from the fundamental principle of all liberty as practiced in Western society: The freedom to believe and act as we choose so long as our beliefs and actions do not infringe on the equal freedom of others.

Morality involves how we think and act toward other sentient beings and whether our thoughts and actions are right (good) or wrong (bad) with regard to their survival and flourishing.

This is not to minimize the emotional undercurrent of mindless bigotry, but merely to suggest that if you sincerely (however wrongly) believe that X is responsible for the ruination of all and everything that you hold dear, stamping out X follows like night follows day.

The "hypocrite" is the critic who disguises his own failings by focusing attention on the failings of others.

Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever known.

Although he had not participated in building their fences, he must not cross their fields.

Programming is like sex one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.

Don't just stand there with a stupid look on your face, do something useful with a stupid look on your face.

The last thing they need is Lieutenant Gorman telling them to lay down suppressing fire with flame units and fall back by squads.

You know what they call a leader with no followers?" The others waited for him to answer his own question. "Just a guy out taking a walk.

It won't suck itself - Arisen Book 9 - Allie

Just do your job, keep learning every day, perform at your peak and to the outside edge of your limits, never complain, and always be first to support your teammates.

My colleague and I are journalists. ... Not of the muckraking variety, I hasten to assure you! Corruption is a necessary and time-honored concomitant of any functioning government, which we support wholeheartedly.