Quotes About Responsibility

I began to suspect that the ultimate sacrifice isn't death after all; the ultimate sacrifice is willingly bearing the fullest penalty for your own actions.

You aren't the kind of guy who takes the law into his own hands. You left the law in other hands and it screwed you over pretty badly.

If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.

Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me—to find out what you're good for. We might both do despicable things, Ender, but if humankind survives, then we were good tools.

The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the audience and to select from what happens during the day which movement shall be a disaster and which a gala night. His job is to preside over accidents.

Surprising condition, this, of our existence! To live is to feel ourselves fatally obliged to exercise our liberty, to decide what we are going to be in this world. Not for a single moment is our activity of decision allowed to rest. Even when in desperation we abandon ourselves to whatever may happen, we have decided not to decide.

It is no great feat to burn a little man. It is a great achievement to persuade him. ERASMUS, LETTER

For while we may debate our freedom to choose, there is no doubt that we are not free not to choose.

Disciples are not so much those who follow as those who must follow.

There is no problem with the wider culture that you cannot see in the spades in the Christian Church. The rot is in us, and not simple out there. And Christians are making a great mistake by turning everything into culture wars. It's a much deeper crisis.

Your security is not in the hands of [Democratic presidential candidate John] Kerry or Bush or al Qaeda. Your security is in your own hands and each state which does not harm our security will remain safe.

Your security is not in the hands of Kerry, Bush or al-Qaida. Your security is in your own hands.

I heard about the bombings the same way everyone else heard about them, from the television or radio. I did not order them but was very glad for what happened to the Americans there.

Your security does not lie in the hands of Kerry, Bush or al-Qaeda. Your security is in your own hands.

Living itself is the source of sin.

My unhappiness stemmed entirely from my own vices, and I had no way of fighting anybody.

It would seem that the more irresponsible and crafty one is, the more likely one is to have a talent for storytelling.

It's his father's fault," she said unemotionally. "The Yozo we knew was so easy-going and amusing, and if only he hadn't drunk—no, even though he did drink—he was a good boy, an angel.

What is society but an individual?

I should have died sooner. But there was one thing: Mama's love. When I thought of that I couldn't die. It's true, as I have said, that just as man has the right to live as he chooses, he has the right to die when he pleases, and yet as long as my mother remained alive, I felt that the right to death would have to be left in abeyance, for to exercise it would have meant killing her too.

Society won't stand for it. It's not society. You're the one who won't stand for it--right? If you do such a thing society will make you suffer for it. It's not society. It's you, isn't it? Before you know it, you'll be ostracized by society. It's not society. You're going to do the ostracizing, aren't you?

Eskiden beri insanl?k ehliyeti olmayan bir çocuktum

Across from me four or five salarymen who all looked about the same age were just sitting there. They must have been around 30. I didn't like any of them. Their eyes were empty and dull. They had no vigor. But now, if I so much as grinned at them, I could very well be dragged off by one of these men, falling into the chasm of compulsory marriage. A mere smile can determine a woman's fate. It is frightening. Fascinatingly so. I have to be careful.