Quotes About Responsibility

For a universe without moral accountability and devoid of value is unimaginably terrible.

If life ends at the grave, then it makes no ultimate difference whether you live as a Stalin or as a Mother Teresa. Since your destiny is ultimately unrelated to your behavior, you may as well just live as you please. As the Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky put it: "If there is no immortality … then all things are permitted.

Dios aún te ama y te hace responsable. Haré todo lo posible para presentarte buenos argumentos. Pero al final tienes que tratar, no con argumentos, sino con Dios mismo.

Todo el bien proviene en ultima instancia de Dios, mientras que el mal se deriva del mal uso de la libertad por parte de las criaturas

Who will bell the cat?

Remember, the surest way to lose your rights is to take them for granted.

All he knows is that he has done exactly what he was supposed to do.

Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.

Thus Jesus shares with many Jewish authors of the time the view that men are to take responsibility for their sexuality, not women, and not seek to cover and control them. Jesus belongs with those who do not see women as a danger or threat, though clearly not all his disciples shared this stance.

The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.

Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.

She had called in the debt that parents owe a child for bringing her, unasked, into a strange world. One should never make an offer without knowing full well what will happen if it is accepted.

Debemos ser en extremo cuidadosos De la semilla que nuestra mano sembrará; El amor del amor germinará, El odio del odio crecerá".

It is to the middle class we must look for the safety of England.

And the violence we will reap, Is bred from the anger we sow.

Hob is not a plaything or a human toy.

As long as human beings are regarded as "bad", zero is a good goal. But to be less bad is to accept things as they are, to believe that poorly designed, dishonorable, destructive systems are the best humans can do. This is the ultimate failure of the "be less bad" approach: a failure of the imagination. From our perspective, this is a depressing vision of our species' roles in the world. What about an entirely different model? What would it mean to be 100 percent good?

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We humans have the ability to see beyond our species, and that ability confers a responsibility.

Responsibility's like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight.

Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else

Perhaps it was just that, born in Scotland, you were hanselled with remorse, set up with shares in Calvin against your coming of age, so that much of the energy you expended came back guilt.

This is our country, too, and we can goddam well control it if we learn to use the tools. —HST, 1969

Everyone is equally responsible for the shit they bring into the world.