Quotes About Responsibility

Not that I'm sure I want to have a child, you know? We've enough to deal with, with Jink's two. But it would be nice to have the choice. It would make me feel as though I belong.

She stood alone at the empty heart of a gone god, staff in the crook of her arm, one hand on her seax and the other on her cross. She would not wear and weather. She was Yffing. She would be totem and token for her people, the light of the world.

Remember when you asked me why I didn't hit Geordie? It was because I don't know how. That little girl in Arkansas doesn't, either. You do. I know that.

A sword given to his hand by a king: a shield and a path.

A gift. From a king. To her as the light of the world. What should she do?

She had sworn to be totem and token to her people, to light their path, not darken it.

Man matures when he stops believing that politics solves his problems.

The tissues of society become cancerous when the duties of some are transformed into the rights of others.

It is no longer enough for the citizen to submit—the modern state demands accomplices.

The cause of democracy's stupidities is confidence in the anonymous citizen; and the cause of its crimes is the anonymous citizen's confidence in himself.

Man's freedom does not free him from necessity. But twists it into unforeseeable consequences.

Voor de democraat staat vrijheid niet gelijk aan alles kunnen zeggen wat je denkt, maar aan niet over alles hoeven nadenken wat je zegt.

The correct use of liberty can consist in adhering to a destiny, but my liberty consists in being able to refuse to do that. The right to fail is an important right of man.

En este siglo toda empresa colectiva edifica prisiones. Sólo el egoísmo nos impide colaborar en vilezas. Hoy los copartícipes terminan en cómplices.

The modern world will not be punished. It is the punishment.

There is nothing more common than to transform a duty that inconveniences us into an "ethical dilemma".

That Christianity may not solve social problems is no reason to commit apostasy except for those who forget that it never promised to solve them.

Wird einem Demokraten ein Finger brandig, fällt ihm nur eines ein: Ein Gesetz zu fordern, das das Abschneiden aller Hände anordnet.

There are fewer ambitious individuals in the world today than individuals who believe they are morally obliged to be ambitious.

To say that freedom consists of something other than doing what we want is a lie. That it is proper, on the other hand, to limit freedom is an obvious fact. But deceit begins when they seek to identify freedom with the limitations they impose on it.

A man is called a liberal if he does not understand that he is sacrificing liberty except when it is too late to save it.

Authority is not delegating men, but procuring values.

No beneficiary of slaves is supporter of birth control.

The foetus is the property of the entire society.Anyone having children is a deserter who abandons the laws of national continuity.