Quotes About Responsibility

Wat is dat eigenlijk: werk? Rok verlaat 's ochtends het huis en gaat dan naar haar werk. En als Bril achter zijn werkmachine zit is hij aan het werk. Ik mag dan niet op tafel springen en hem voor de vingers lopen. Werk is iets waarvoor je de deur uitgaat of waarvoor je juist binnen blijft. Die gedachte brengt me niet veel verder.

celui qui vient au monde pour ne rien troubler ne mérite ni égard ni patience

Celui qui vient au monde sans rien troubler, ne mérite ni égards, ni patience.

We are ready to deconstruct anything except the idea that we are self-directed and that the persecutors are always the others.

En este trapo de mundo todos somos sirvientes. ... Sólo que algunos no se dan cuenta.

You cannot fix, nor are you responsible for another persons low self esteem.

I think sanity, however, is the most profound moral option of our time.

The patrolman and the teacher did find Kevin. They brought him to his mother, who had behaved admirably from the first. It turned out that every single child on the school bus had known that one of their Kevins was missing. They had not mentioned it to the driver, or their teacher, or each other. They took it that Kevin had been left, forever, for some reason, which would become clear to them, with patience, in the course of time.

To escape responsibility for violence we imagine it is enough to pledge never to be the first to do violence. But no one ever sees himself as casting the first stone. Even the most violent persons believe that they are always reacting to a violence committed in the first instance by someone else.

We have a responsibility to remember, celebrate, and come to the aid of those women who once gave of themselves on our behalf . . . We cannot afford to forget or trample on our feminine leaders of the past.

Freedom comes not from the absence of restraint but from the presence of discipline.

THE IMAGE WE have of ourselves readily tends to be complacent. We look at ourselves with indulgence. When something unpleasant happens to us, we always have the tendency to cast the blame on others, or on fate, a demon, or a god. We shrink from descending into ourselves, as the Buddha recommended.

A builder is like a little god - somebody who does things, doesn't just draw things.

If a person fights, that's their own choice," Angel says. "But getting two roosters to fight or two dogs like pit bulls to fight, the animals don't have a choice there. They can't decide not to fight.

Yes, we might've had our problems, but if you were that unhappy, then you should've left me. You don't seek solace in the arms of another man. You don't go to the other side, hoping the grass is greener. You water the lawn you have!

People, including those who love us, only do what we allow them to do. They only suck up the energy we give.

We've talked about this," she said matter-of-factly. "I'm on lease. Nobody's purchased me, so therefore no one needs to be 'checking up on me.

And some materials also claim that condoms are ineffective because students who can't "exercise self-control to remain abstinent" are not likely to "exercise self-control" and use a condom. That's like saying we shouldn't teach our kids safe drinking techniques because those who choose to drink underage can't control themselves anyway—so we should just let them binge drink without any guidance at all.

Nothing is simpler than to kill a man; the difficulties arise in attempting to avoid the consequences.

You can't base your actions on the theory that anyone you don't keep your eye on is apt to get killed.

Courtesy is one's own affair, but decency is a debt to life

Invade a man's privacy and then put the burden on him.

If personal vengeance were the only factor I could, as you suggested, go and stick a knife in him and finish it, but that would be accepting the intolerable doctrine that man's sole responsibility is to his ego. That was the doctrine of Hitler, as it is now of Malenkov and Tito and Franco and Senator McCarthy; masquerading as a basis of freedom, it is the oldest and toughest of the enemies of freedom.

He lowered the magazine. "Archie. You may remember that I once returned a retainer of forty thousand dollars which a client named Zimmermann had paid me, because he wanted to tell me how to handle his case instead of leaving it to me. Well?" He lifted the magazine. He lowered it again. "Please type the report." He lifted it again.