Quotes About Responsibility

It was a collective building up of nerve, absolving them of any guilt in advance.

Don't waste your breath. You can't help the terminally stupid. If people hate government so much they don't listen to official advice, they can't expect government to bend over backward to help them.

must remember that military force ultimately exists to serve the civilian populace, even though we might despise their choice of leaders.

Those who do not accept due process, who refuse to acknowledge the democratic mandate, are a cancer on society.

Politicians are its creatures, too. They are the easiest of all humans to corrupt.

Sometimes you just have to make the choice—because if you're in the position to make that choice, you have the right to make it.

Does my willingness to do my duty make the human race a bunch of dangerous killers?

Why?' he asked. 'Absolution.' He didn't get it, they never did. His death was a duty, ordered by guilt. Greg had learnt all about duty from the Army

Besides, she was only a kid, she needed him.

Nor is she yours, not any more,' Greg replied. 'No longer your little girl. She makes her own choices now.

You're frighteningly advanced, so it's comforting to know you put so much emphasis on ethics. They are so easy to abandon in times of war.

You are responsible to your political paymasters, and their eternal quest for the status quo.

Loi and Eldlund were a lot more cautious – we should investigate longer, bring in more equipment and specialists, make detailed risk assessments. Typical corporate culture kids. They had no concept of taking responsibility, because that meant consequences – and Legal always hated consequences.

It definitely gets challenging at times. I travel a lot more now, and its never easy having to leave the kids, even if its for a few days.

You die a sergeant

General Meade will commit no blunder in my front, and if I make one he will make haste to take advantage of it."28 Since the morning of June 28th, when

Until you become a parent, you can't begin to discover your capacity for strength, love and fatigue.

paterfamilias.

sauvignon blanc and turns to look out the window. "Africans can't do governments," he suddenly announces. "We are useless at it, disorganized." I close my newsmagazine and nod noncommittally. "And our institutions never work because we never pay our dues." He reaches up and presses his bell for more wine.

Keep my word' is such a strange expression. At first glance, it just means 'Be true to what you agreed on. But it could also mean, 'Hold your words back.' Keep them in. Let your actions speak instead.

He would return again and again to the same themes over the years, with different details and different emphases, but always with the same underlying message: the inherent nobility not so much of man as of FREEDOM, and the implied responsibility - no, the OBLIGATION - for each of us to be as different as our individuated natures allowed us to be. To be different, in Sam's words, IN THE EXTREME.

I'm sorry, Shatara. I just did your job." With a single utterance, she apologized, reviewed the normality of making errors (and of apologizing when they are social ones), and implicitly recognized that Shatara (as everyone else) is a person who takes her responsibilities seriously.

If you remember," he said, "and have a past, then you can be given the blame and be punished. See – if you don't remember anything, you don't have time like other people. It's a bit like being crazy, so you get taken into protective custody. Then there's a chance. " —

In my judgment, we suffer quite as much from exaggerated, hysterical, and untruthful or slanderous statements in the press as from any wrongdoing by businessmen or politicians.