Quotes About Responsibility

Serial killers do not take responsibility for killing; they are of the opinion that it is the police's responsibility to prevent them from killing.

The journalists and their editors were totally ruthless and had no respect for the lives of the surviving victims. Publishing their names and addresses meant that the killer could have found them and killed them, because they could identify him.

Many serial killers try to plead dissociative personality disorder, which is a new name for multiple personality disorder, in court. But they all fail dismally in this desperate attempt to avoid responsibility for their crimes.

I realised what I could offer the South African Police Force. It was only later when the Force became the Service that I realised the contribution that I could make to the community as well.

Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences.

The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol.

Young lovers and young nations face the same problem: after orgasm, what?

Philosophy teaches a man that he can't take it with him; taxes teach him he can't leave it behind either.

Women polish the silver and water the plants and wait to be really needed.

There are whole years for which I hope I'll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi.

Don't fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all.

If there is something you must do and you cannot do it, you cannot do anything else.

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.

A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he's always apologizing, his children are monsters.

Fields can lie fallow, but we can't; we have less time.

Says the rude child: "No, I won't do it." Says the courteous grown-up: "Yes, I won't do it."

What a shame that allowances have to stop with the teens: both those that are paid to us and those that are made for us.

It's easy enough to get along with a loved and loving child—at least till you try to get him to do something.

We can only imagine the repercussions if, today, someone took one of their children and attempted to offer him or her as a sacrifice to please God, professing that God had told them to do it. No doubt such a person would be arrested and placed under psychiatric care, as they should be. But the Abraham story has become so familiar that we fail to read its disturbing dark side.

Pero la tercera generación es la encargada de hablar por todos, por los vivos y por los enterrados.

Every man is the son of his own works.

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.

Let every man mind his own business.