Quotes About Responsibility

Todo lo que encontramos en la vida, es la resultante de nuestras acciones; por consiguiente, cada persona puede ser dueña de su destino haciéndose dueña de sus acciones. Cada uno es responsable de las acciones que dan lugar al propio sufrimiento. Cada uno posee los medios para acabar con el sufrimiento que provocan sus acciones.

The greatest glory of a free-born people is to transmit that freedom to their children.

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.

We often repent the good we have done as well as the ill.

Those who can command themselves command others.

A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should be not only tolerated, but encouraged.

The virtue of its Citizens is the only Support of a Republican government

Marriage and Money

I do not think... that any man has the right to take life. When he thinks he has he is at his most dangerous.

We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.

I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else.

Too many people don't care what happens so long as it doesn't happen to them.

I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.

I am going to do what I think is best for the country, within my jurisdiction and power, and then let the rest take care of itself.

Dostoevsky's...typically Russian emphasis on man as a collective being leads logically to his belief in our all-guilt; we are, again, in some mysterious manner, guilty of everybody's sins...Our own deeds, good or bad, are nothing but pebbles in the river of life that will be carried on and on until they somehow touch our remotest fellow man.

Marshall placed enormous trust in Eisenhower, and Ike always honored him for it. "I must have assistants who will solve their own problems," Marshall told him, "and tell me later what they have done." The historian of Eisenhower's presidency can draw a direct line between these words and Eisenhower's own management style as chief executive, when he too would look for powerful and confident lieutenants and allow them the freedom to run their own departments.

Usually we think a person is obligated to do something that would benefit many people, but what if that "something" is committing murder? Which is more important, doing good—or not doing wrong?

As Rorschach so poetically put it, "This rudderless world is not shaped by vague metaphysical forces. It is not god who kills the children. Not fate that butchers them or destiny that feeds them to the dogs. It's us. Only us."12

Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture.

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.

United States military profession as early as 1863 in General Order number 100 of the United States Army Field Manual: "Men who take up arms against another in public war do not cease on this account to be moral beings responsible to one another." Individuals always remain ethically responsible for their actions, for the choices they make among conflicting moral obligations, as well as for the consequences which result from them.

If you are such an individual and become upset when one of your asset classes does poorly, even when the rest of your portfolio is doing well, then you should not be managing your own money.

it is the duty of shareholders to periodically suffer loss without complaint.

Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone.