Quotes About Responsibility

So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing with greater and greater power, either for good or for destruction.

I haven't been faithful to my wife. Our marriage has been tainted with my infidelities. I was irresponsible.

What is the quality you most like in a man? The ability to return books.

Men wrote the Bible, but God made our consciences. Does he want them to gather dust?' There

Only people with full stomachs become environmentalists.

Reciprocal accountability, or criticism [is] the only known antidote to error.

Freedom was wonderful beyond relief. But with it came that bitch, Duty.

We aren't a curse upon the world. We are her new eyes. Her brain, testes, ovaries . . . her ambition and her heart. Her voice. So sing. (556)

As it concerns Clinton coverage, the Times will have a special place in journalism hell.

Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.

holding people responsible. People born into the most chaotic situations can still be asked the same questions: Are you living for short-term pleasure or long-term good? Are you living for yourself or for your children? Do you have the freedom of self-control or are you in bondage to your desires? The Cost of Relativism, NYT article 3/10/15

Freedom without structure is its own slavery.

Koch was not one for grand plans. He just made constant adjustments. He always used the word 'stewardship' to describe his leadership style. He'd inherited something great and he didn't screw it up. p259

that your are the prime driver of your life. The world is malleable enough to be shaped by you. To lead a better life you just have to work harder, or use more willpower, or make better decisions.

Apparently, we have become such a hyper-individualized culture that it is impossible to develop an argument based on how individual cases fit into the fabric of the common good.

We don't inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.

Polite conversationalists leave no mark save the scars upon the Earth that could have been prevented had they stood their ground.

I have not yet walked the forest trails, high meadows, snows and rocks of the Alpine Lakes area of the Cascades; even so, I do not feel myself a stranger there. Great many wild places of Earth I have not visited, and never shall be able to, but I have known some of them intimately, with delight, and thus claim citizenship of all the wild place of all the states and nations of all the continents and seas. From citizenship comes responsibility to care.

Politicians are like weather vanes. Our job is to make the wind blow.

What Your Speed Means

I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, 'Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.'

God never intended for an individual to solve all of life's problems. He intended for each one of us to use whatever resources and gifts He gave us to make a difference where we are.13

Each of us is guilty of the good we don't do.

Yes, America must do the right thing, but to provide moral leadership, America must do it in the right way, too.