Quotes About Responsibility

Eres una mentirosa! –vociferó Alexandr–. Te lo prohíbo. Te prohíbo que vayas a buscarles la comida. Devuélveles las cartillas y diles que vayan ellas a buscarse su maldita comida. No quiero que vayas nunca más a buscarles el pan si son incapaces de guardarte un poco de la comida que traigo. Tatiana

Its always easy to blame others. You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your successes or failures are entirely your own responsibility. You can try to stop time, but its a complete waste of energy.

No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.

No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.

The trust of the people in the leaders reflects the confidence of the leaders in the people.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift. It must be pursued constantly and responsibly. Freedom is not an ideal located outside of man; nor is it an idea which becomes myth. It is rather the indispensable condition for the quest for human completion.

The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom. Freedom would require them to eject this image and replace it with autonomy and responsibility. Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift. It must be pursued constantly and responsibly. Freedom is not an ideal located outside man; nor is it an idea which becomes myth. It is rather the indispensable condition for the quest for human completion.

The oppressed, having internalised the image of the oppressor and adopted his guideline are fearful of freedom. Freedom would require them to eject this image and replace it with autonomy and responsibility.

I must intervene in teaching the peasants that their hunger is socially constructed and work with them to help identify those responsible for this social construction, which is, in my view, a crime against humanity. Therefore, we need to intervene not only pedagogically but also ethically.

Through dialogue, the teacher-of-the-students and the students-of-the-teacher cease to exist and a new term emerges: teacher-student with students-teachers. The teacher is no longer merely the-one-who-teaches, but one who is himself taught in dialogue with the students, who in turn while being taught also teach. They become jointly responsible for a process in which all grow.

No que diz respeito às relações autoridade-liberdade, [...], corremos também o risco de, negando à liberdade o direito de afirmar-se, exacerbar a autoridade ou, atrofiando esta, hipertrofiar aquela. Em outras palavras, corremos o risco de cair seduzidos ou pela tirania da liberdade ou pela tirania da autoridade, trabalhando, em qualquer das hipóteses, contra a nossa incipiente democracia.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

The educator has the duty of not being neutral.

To affirm that men and women are persons and as persons should be free, and yet to do nothing tangible to make this affirmation a reality, is a farce.

My mom is two people to me. She's my mom number one, and then she's this lady most comedians know as being a legendary owner of a nightclub that's responsible for starting a lot of heavy careers.

Shankara assured her he would return whenever his mother, conscious, unconscious or burdened by sorrow, needed him.

When we measure corporate performances, we don't include our impacts on nature and what our business costs society. That has to stop.

Just so you know... Even if I don't break it... alot of people break their own Egg. All those adults walking around with tired faces... they've thrown away the "person they want to be.

You're like a rebellious child! Huh? You always treat me like a kid, but you're a kid yourself!

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.

Any time your life is at stake and you can't find even one woman to come forward and say, 'This is a good man,' your problem isn't what kind of woman THEY are. Your problem is what kind of men YOU are.

You can't save a person who doesn't want to be saved. It was like Mr. Eddie always told the new gardeners: Everybody's got to kill their own snakes.