Quotes About Responsibility

Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state.

Since causing massive unnecessary harm is wrong if anything is wrong, the judgement that factory farming is an indefensible institution seems inescapable.

Good political institutions are those that make it as easy as possible to detect whether a ruler or policy is a mistake, and to remove rulers or policies without violence when they are.

systems of government are to be judged not for their prophetic ability to choose and install good leaders and policies, but for their ability to remove bad ones that are already there.

Lo que consideramos nuestras acciones «libres» no son las aleatorias o indeterminadas, sino las que están ampliamente «determinadas» por quienes somos, cómo pensamos y qué está en juego. (Si bien están ampliamente determinadas, pueden ser muy impredecibles por razones de complejidad.)

Could it be that the moral imperative not to destroy the means of correcting mistakes is the only moral imperative?

By such means as the inculcating of parental instruction, the institution of classes for the children and young people of each congregation, the Church of Christ must seek to do the duty which she undertook when she received these little ones into the fold of the visible Church. She is not at liberty to make over her duty into the hands of parents, any more than parents are to throw over their responsibility on the Church. The

A good officer can get away with being wrong, but he can't be indecisive.

It's all right for a leader to be ruthless, Adele thought. He shouldn't be whimsical, though, and he especially shouldn't be whimsically ruthless.

The things other people said or did would always give room to take offense, if you were of a mind to take offense. Therefore the fault wasn't in the other people.

I'm turning into a stricter dad.

One of the scary things is that, when you're a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear. When you're an adult, you realize your father had fear, and that you have it, too.

I've turned down jobs because I've said, 'Honestly, I can't find my way in. I can't do it. I love you, as a director. I think the script is good. You deserve better than I think I can do.'

It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility.

Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.

the long delay, and the obvious reluctance of the United States to ratify the Genocide Convention" derived from "fear that it might be held responsible, retrospectively, for the annihilation of Indians in the United States, or its role in the slave trade, or its contemporary support for tyrannical governments engaging in mass murder." Still, Kuper said he was delighted that at last the Americans had agreed to the terms of the Convention.

A critical element in nearly all effective social movements is leadership. For it is through smart, persistent, and authoritative leaders that a movement generates the appropriate concepts and language that captures the frustration, anger, or fear of the group's members and places responsibility where it is warranted.

Upon the exposure of his bribery, it is reported he said, "I should have paid more.

And now, if there are faults they are the mistakes of men. —The Book of Mormon, translated by JOSEPH SMITH

I, of course, cherish my freedom, but I shall never want my freedom to restrict the freedom of another. In that case then I am not truly free, and none of us is truly free.

I thought you said you were the one in charge!" Ce'Nedra exclaimed. I lied." Silk said. "It's a vice I have.

Will you never grow up?" "I doubt it, and I certainly hope not.

Most people seem to believe that not only is it permissible to turn the train down the spur, it is actually required—morally obligatory.

What is a woman? Her brothers' sister, her father's daughter, Her husband's wife, her children's mother