Quotes About Responsibility

Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you. —Frank Tyger

More dangerous than anger and hate is indifference. To be indifferent to suffering is what makes the human being inhuman. It is not a beginning, it is an end, and it is always the friend to the enemy. —Elie Wiesel

The state can't seem to keep the roads paved; you think we should trust them with life-and-death decisions?

Daryl said Amanda was "a good mother, except for the cleaning up after, the feeding, and the caretaking part.

It's not just an easy one-liner. The state can't seem to keep the roads paved; you think we should trust them with life-and-death decisions?

Maggie and Katy found themselves trapped. 'Soon it went so far and so many persons had heard the 'rappings' that we could not confess the wrong without exciting very great anger on the part of the those we had deceived So we went right on," Maggie would explain forty years later.

Epictetus famously opens the Encheiridion this way: "Some things in the world are up to us, while others are not. Up to us are our faculties of judgment, motivation, desire, and aversion—in short, everything that is our own doing. Not up to us are our body and property, our reputations, and our official positions—in short, everything that is not our own doing.

Some things are up to us and some are not up to us." —Epictetus "I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept." —Angela Davis "If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself." "Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?" —Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Epictetus opens the Encheiridion with that dichotomy of control: "Some things are up to us and some are not up to us . . . If is one of those things that is not up to us, be ready to say, 'You are nothing in relation to me.

We bastards are not to blame for any of it.

Men did not want to get caught, but this fear wasn't there for the right reasons. They didn't want their wives to discover they were having an affair because they would make it harder for them to get away with it the next time.

having children seems to demand a completely different level of courage

If you run from enemy fire, I'll make you wash dishes for the rest of your life!

A child's growth is defined entirely by the adult that raises him.

Girls have to be strong to protect the men they love.

One of them says, 'Why did they do it?' And the other answers, 'Because they could.' That is the only answer there ever is.

And all we have, in the end, are the choices we make.

Now they will know," shouts one woman into Tunde's camera, "that they are the ones who should not walk out of their houses alone at night. They are the ones who should be afraid.

You can't solve anyone else's life for them. But then, if you see someone struggling with a heavy load, isn't it forbidden to walk on without helping them?

Already there are parents telling their boys not to go out alone, not to stray too far.

One of them says, "Why did they do it, Nina and Darrell?" And the other answers, "Because they could." That is the only answer there ever is.

it. Already there are parents telling their boys not to go out alone, not to stray too far.

Men are no longer permitted to vote – because their years of violence and degradation have shown that they are not fit to rule or govern.

Power has her ways. She acts on people, and people act on her. When does power exist? Only in the moment it is exercised.