Quotes About Responsibility

A good way to avoid crimes of obedience is to assert one's personal authority and always take full responsibility for one's actions.23

Bad systems" create "bad situations" create "bad apples" create "bad behaviors," even in good people.

recognizing the early signs of toxicity in our leaders can enable us to take preventive medicine, not passively imbibe their seductive poison.33

conditions that make us feel anonymous, when we think that others do not know us or care to, can foster antisocial, self-interested behaviors. My

The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal.

That seduction or initiation into evil can be understood by recognizing that most actors are not solitary figures improvising on the empty stage of life. Rather, they are often an ensemble of different players, on a stage with various props and changing costumes, scripts, and stage directions from producers and directors.

diffusion of responsibility, in any form it takes, lowers the inhibition against harming others.

Yesterday was too early. Tomorrow will be too late. Today is the day of reckoning for each of us.

Jedynym koniecznym warunkiem triumfu z?a jest to, ?eby dobrzy ludzie nie robili nic. (Edmund Burke)

Futureoriented people believe that when you choose a behavior, you choose its future consequences, but Zajonc, Bargh, and many others in social psychology have demonstrated that sometimes you do not choose a behavior. Sometimes a behavior chooses you based upon the environment in which you find yourself.

Though the act of making one's own bed is simple and mundane, it reiterates that the little things in life can have a significant impact. 'If you can't do the little things right, you will never do the big things right,' he said.

Denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good.

The people are living seperately together," he said. "So there is responsibility. I cry, you cry. You cry, I cry. We all come running, and the one that stays quiet, the one that stays home, must explain. Is he in league with the criminals? Is he a coward? And what would he expect when he cries? This is simple. This is normal. This is community.

An animal will kill, but never to completely annihilate a race, a whole collectively. What does this make us in this world?

So there is responsibility. I cry, you cry. We all come running, and the one that stays quiet, the one that stays home, must explain. Is he in league with the criminals? Is he a coward? And what would he exect when he cries? This is simple. This is normal. This is community.

If you don't say anything it can't become important, but if you say it everyone's ever after got to walk round it like a pile of rocks in the living room.

what sort of mothers can these girls have? The answer would supply an explanation of, but no excuse for, our national decadence and degradation

If they employ men to make music, then these men must abandon their work of ploughing, planting, and cultivation.

Mengzi responded, "If Your Majesty regards them as excellent, then why do you not put them into practice?" The King said, "We have a weakness. We are fond of wealth.

Plato argued that good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will always find a way around law. By pretending that procedure will get rid of corruption, we have succeeded only in humiliating honest people and provided a cover of darkness and complexity for the bad people. There is a scandal here, but it's not the result of venal bureaucrats. (1994) p. 99

Overthrow the bureaucracy, and return to a system based on human responsibility.

that's the thing about urgent paperwork: the longer you leave it the less urgent it becomes.

You give people chances. What they do with those chances is their own affair. It's

Today's freedom fighters are tomorrow's dictators.