Quotes About Responsibility

Connor:I let her go. I could have held on but I let her go. The Monster:And that is the truth. Connor:I didn't mean it, though! I didn't mean to let her go! And now it's for real! Now she's going to die and it's my fault! The Monster:And that is not the truth at all.

I was only following orders," the Mayor mocks. "The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time.

And what exactly do you think this proves?" he spits. "You've got power, but you don't know what to do with it." VIOLA "Looks like I'm doing fine," I say.

For who needs devils when you have men?

Blame is a human concept, one of its blackest and most selfish and self-binding.

It is not what I want from you, Conor O'Malley, it said. It is what you want from me . "I don't want anything from you," Conor said. Not yet, said the monster. But you will.

It's too early for you to have grown up this much.' 'Yeah, well, sometimes you don't have a choice.

He is worse than the others, I show. He is worst of all of them. Because– Because he knew he was doing wrong. He felt the pain of his actions– But he did not amend them, shows the Sky. The rest are worth as much as their pack animals, I show, but worst is the one who knows better and does nothing.

He blamed Lily, because who else was there?

Blame is something that is shared and denied in equal measures.

You are the one who called me, Conor O'Malley, it said, looking at him seriously. You are the one with the answers to these questions.

Little girls aren't naturally lost," Karen said, frowning as she scanned saucepans. "Someone makes them that way.

To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts.

Men do monstrous things but if you call a man a monster you have absolved yourself of blame. You don't have to think that you might ever do these things. I don't think that's true

What a sad thing men are. Can't do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can't build something without tearing it down. It ain't the Spackle that drove us to the end. It was ourselves.

Feelings don't try to kill you,even the painful ones. Anxiety is a feeling grown too large. A feeling grown aggressive and dangerous. You're responsible for its consequences, you're responsible for treating it

There's always a choice," Viola says by my side. "Oh, people like to say that," the Mayor says. "It makes them feel better.

But the Spackle War was over a long time ago, wasn't it?" "Thirteen years now." "Thirteen years where you could have righted a wrong." She finally looks at me. "Life is only that simple when you're young, my girl.

What if it'd been Simone down there instead of Todd?" I say. And Simone is all over his Noise, his deep feelings for her, feelings I don't think are returned. "You're right," he says, "I don't know. I hope I'd make the right choice, but Viola it is a choice. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts.

Sometimes the people don't know what's best for them, Ivan," she says. "Sometimes the people have to be convinced of things that are necessary. That's what leadership is. Not shouting your head off in support of their every whim.

She regards me quietly and then she quotes something Mistress Coyle once said to me. "We are the choices we make." It takes me a second to realize she's just said goodbye.

That's because the desire of most folks is to be told what to do." He looks back across the square, covered in tents and soldiers and townsfolk all huddled together. "People say they want freedom, but what they really want is freedom from worry. If I take care of their problems, they don't mind being told what to do.

Honestly. Adults. How do they live in the world? (Or maybe that is how they live in the world.)

It is now or never," said the yew tree. "You must speak the truth.