Quotes About Responsibility

it was the fault of the hands, they and not any other part of the body had done the taking. Be that as it may, the timidity inseparable from him to begin with increased still more. Perhaps this very event was the reason why he never had any wish to enter the civil service, seeing from experience that it was not always possible to keep the lid on things.

I'm only forty-two—the age at which service just seriously begins.

I am not seeking to justify him; I am only asking you whether you think it right that an inexperienced youth who had been tempted and led away by others should have received the same sentence as the man who had taken the chief part in the affair. That is to say, although Dierpiennikov and the man Voron-Drianni received an equal measure of punishment, their CRIMINALITY was not equal.

Niente è più bello che essere in tutto debitori soltanto a se stessi.

Don't blame the mirror if your mug's askew. —Popular saying

One can get very used to the life of nobility if fates allow, but the first order of business is for one to rely on himself.

If a woman sleeps alone it puts a shame on all men. God has a very big heart, but there is one sin He will not forgive. If a woman calls a man to her bed and he will not go.

Individuals must take responsibility for their choices and cannot hide behind convention or rules.

the Purpose of a company should automatically come down to balancing the demands of stakeholders or constituencies. In real life, this is already the way companies are managed. Corporate directors have to balance demands in the short run—from customers, workers, shareholders, community and so on—or they will find themselves out of business or in jail. Companies

Niall Fitzgerald, former chairman of Unilever, has pointed out that social responsibility is good business because "we need a constant flow of talented people Ã¢â'¬Â¦ [who] ask themselves if this is an organization whose values they share."6

A cat is an ordinary pet in the sight of those who don't know what it takes.

A man is a man if he provide all his family needs and satisfy them.

You can run away from all life responsibilities but can't hide from mistakes.

Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you would do better if you slipped on a paving-stone and broke a front tooth.

Harm could be wrought by inaction as much as action. And

I nodded, not yet realizing that as far as the world was concerned, what was best for the baby could mean something entirely different from what was best for me.

Things are as they are and nobody in particular is responsible. The idea of personal responsibility comes from the illusion of agency.

Once you can say with confidence born from direct experience, "I am the world, the world is myself," you are free from desire and fear on one hand and become totally responsible for the world on the other.

When you are free of the world, you can do something about it. As long as you are a prisoner of it, you are helpless to change it. On the contrary, whatever you do will aggravate the situation.

This entire system functions on the assumption that women do housework for love .

I don't believe in astrology. The only stars I can blame for my failures are those that walk about the stage.

Significaba que, si los judíos estuvieran en el poder en lugar de la Iglesia, ellos también utilizarían a Dios para destruir a los no creyentes? ¿Era inevitable que el poder religioso absoluto llevara aparejada una absoluta crueldad? «Ha-Rakhaman, Padre Nuestro del Cielo, único Dios de todos, ¿por qué permites que se cometan tantas matanzas en tu Nombre?»

Los monarcas vienen y van, pero el mundo sigue necesitando médicos

Someone had told her once that mothers existed to blunt the existential loneliness of being a person. If that was true then her biggest maternal responsibility was simply companionship. You bring a child into this fractious, chaotic world out of the heat of your womb, and then spend the next ten years walking beside them while they figure out how to be a person.