Quotes About Responsibility

Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. —Voltaire

There is no separating yourself from the things you make, he thought. If you are a cesspool, what else can your work be except shit?

You have kids and you think I made you, so we're the same, but it's not true. You just get to live with them for a while and maybe help them figure things out.

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.

If he could speak, Simon would have said, Isn't it the job of the strong to protect the weak?

Either we prevent 1.5 degrees [Celsius] of warming or we don't.

Once anointed a hero by your fellow man, you lose the right to privacy. You become an object, stripped of some unquantifiable humanity, as if you have won a cosmic lottery and woke one day to find yourself a minor deity. The Patron Saint of Good Luck. It stops mattering what you wanted for yourself. All that matters is the role you played in the lives of others. You are a rare butterfly held roughly at a right angle to the sun.

Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

was the idyllic fantasy of Europeans fed up with the world they had. They saw this new Garden of Eden as a gift from God. One that offered escape from the problems that plagued them—hopelessness, debt, religious oppression. Escape too from the responsibility of rebuilding a system that was fundamentally flawed. Flee, don't fix.

He wrote, 'Our Government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.

has all the benefits of being a king with none of the burdens. He does not have to feed his kingdom or keep his citizens safe. He does not have to worry about the disfavor of the church or infighting in his court. He has no court, no successors. He

We come to understand the law of casuality - that is, we see that all beings are experiencing what they're experiencing based on their own actions and not by what we wish for them - and therefore we relax in a deep understanding and acceptance of the way things are.

Our future experiences will be colored by the choices we make in the present.

Unsuccessful people are whiners and victims. Don't be one of them!

Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.

Everyone's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's really an easy way: Stop participating in it.

It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.

Noel, I want you to see if you can get me paternity insurance," he said not long after Edward's troubles. "Paternity insurance? David, I don't think there is such a thing." "Well, there should be. Look into it. I need to protect my penis.

languages. Rather, he gave himself entirely to the raising of Laura, a beautiful little girl who,

When we continue to do things for our children that they could do for themselves, we are unintentionally robbing them of opportunities to become self-reliant and confident. Doing for our children what they can do for themselves also sends them a negative message either that we think they can't do it, or that they don't have to do it.

Financial discipline demands that you have a budget. Control your money. Do not let money control you. Discipline yourself to make sure that the flow of your money is gong in the right direction at all times.