Quotes About Responsibility

He was the oldest. When we left Kentucky, our folks told him to look after me. Didn't say a word to me. Wouldn't have occurred to them.

There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

We, the people of Thiaoouba, are assigned to assist, guide and sometimes punish the inhabitants of planets under our guardianship.

A truly modern man, William Rackham is what might be called a superstitious atheist Christian; that is, he believes in a God who, while He may no longer be responsible for the sun rising, the saving of the Queen or the provision of daily bread, is still the prime suspect when anything goes wrong.

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

But the guilty person is only one of the targets of punishment. For punishment is directed above all at others, at all the potentially guilty.

Y todas las teorías de la libertad, desde Gide a Sartre, no son sino inmoralidades concebidas por solteros irresponsables.

You really can't do anything about people's lives, I said to myself, neither friendship nor compassion nor the intelligence of the situations is of any use: people manufacture the mechanism of their own misfortune, they wind it right up and the mechanism goes on turning

For the French, an intellectual didn't have to be responsible. That wasn't his job.

an intellectual didn't have to be responsible. That wasn't his job. In

forse non avevo combinato granché di buono nella vita ma almeno avrei contribuito a distruggere il pianeta

Ce n'est pas très difficile de travailler dans un bureau, il suffit d'être un peu méticuleux, de prendre des décisions rapidement, et de s'y tenir. J'avais vite compris qu'il n'est pas forcément nécessaire de prendre /la meilleur décision/, mais qu'il suffit, dans la plupart des cas, de prendre /une décision quelconque/, à condition de la prendre rapidement; enfin, si on travaille dans le secteur public.

Jos hävittää moraalisuuden omasta persoonastaan, se on sama kuin karkoittaisi maailmasta moraalin, siinä määrin kuin se on itsestä kiinni.

El amor de los padres a sus hijos es algo constatable, es una suerte de fenómeno natural, sobre todo en las mujeres; pero los hijos no corresponden nunca a este amor y nunca son dignos de recibirlo, el amor de los hijos a sus padres es absolutamente contra natura.

Yo era un hijo de puta, y lo sabía. Lo normal es que los padres se sacrifiquen. Yo no conseguía soportar que se acabara mi juventud, no podía soportar la idea de que mi hijo iba a crecer, iba a ser joven por mí, y que a lo mejor iba a tener éxito en la vida cuando la mía era un fracaso. Quería volver a ser una persona

puede que no hubiera hecho gran cosa en mi vida, pero al menos habría contribuido a destruir el planeta–

To maintain order in your bureaucratic life, you more or less have to stay home; go away for any length of time and you're always likely to run afoul of some agency or other.

Habríamos podido salvar al mundo, y habríamos podido salvarlo en un abrir y cerrar de ojos, in einem Augenblick, pero no lo hicimos, bueno, al menos yo no lo he hecho, y el amor no triunfó, lo traicioné...

L'homme n'est ni ange, ni bête, et le malheur veut que qui veut faire l'ange fait la bête" [El hombre no es ni ángel ni bestia y, por desgracia, el que quiere hacerse el ángel hace el tonto].

Not having children derives not from dislike, but from love too great to bring them into this world, too limited, too vain, too cruel.

The ripple effect. You throw a pebble into the water and it creates ripples. Your action was to throw the pebble—the representation of your choice. That's all that you can control. But not the ripples—those are the consequences of your choice. And that you cannot control.

I don't understand how a person won't do ANYTHING to help themselves but WILL get upset with someone else for not giving them the help the EXPECT or feel ENTITLED to. #VICTIM #TakeResponsibility #GrowUP #No1owesUshit #lifegoeson #LiveLearnLove #CheLeSmith