Quotes About Responsibility

Much later, when I thought about it, I realized that my folks were typical of their generation of parents: Their idea of raising children was making sure we were clothed, fed, and protected. They didn't focus much on us unless we were sick or had done something wrong. They didn't hold conversations with us. Love was understood rather than expressed, and values were transmitted by example, not word of mouth.

It's always easier to be a critic than a creator.

Once he had tried to get fired by recommending suicide in his column. All that Shrike had said was : "Remember, please, that you job is to increase the circulation of our paper. Suicide, it is only reasonable to think, must defeat this purpose".

Furthermore, having lost faith in himself, he thought it his duty to undermine the nation's faith in itself.

It is painful to face the self we know we have never had the integrity to honor and assert.

You can't volunteer to go to war and then bitch about getting shot at.

Great Marine commanders, like all great warriors, are able to kill that which they love most -- their men.

Worst of all were the accolades and thanks from people "for what you guys did over there." Thanks for what, I wanted to ask—shooting kids, cowering in terror behind a berm, dropping artillery on people's homes?

combat command is the loneliest job in the world.

Some man of powerful character to command a person, morally subjected to him, to perform some act. The commanding person suddenly to die; and, for all the rest of his life, the subjected one continues to perform that act.

Not to be deficient in this particular, the author has provided himself with a moral—the truth, namely, that the wrongdoing of one generation lives into the successive ones.

What we call real estate—the solid ground to build a house on—is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.

To do nothing is the way to be nothing.

Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.

There was a saying on the island: "[I]t is a pity to spoil a good mate by making him a master.

The Great Spirit, who made all things, made every thing for some use, and whatever use he designed anything for, that use it should always be put to. Now, when he made rum, he said 'Let this be for the Indians to get drunk with,' and it must be so.

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.

You don't have to be 'adults'... but be someone who can take responsibility for their own words and actions. Believe it or not, that's actually harder.

I kept making you cry... didn't I? - Hatori Sohma

If someone talks trash, you can just trash them back. Clamming up in a corner makes the thing half your fault." "[...] There are people out there who get crushed by that logic.

My course of action depends on me.

Maybe she did bring you into the world and raise you. But just 'cos she's your "family" doesn't mean it's okay for her to do or say whatever she wants. It's never okay. Expecting someone to smile and say thank you to their family, when that "family" is just stepping all over them--- that's just abuse. It's just a curse.

You should know that if you bombard someone with one-sided love then you are nothing but a burden to them and you will just end up hurting them in the end.

Those who hurt others will also hurt themselves.