Quotes About Responsibility

Of course, the Führer promised a lot of things. It was what had got him where he was today.

Look at the Germans, the most cultured and well mannered of people, and yet… Auschwitz, Treblinka, Bergen-Belsen. Given the same set of circumstances it could just as well have been the English

It was a woman's job to try and improve a man. It was a man's job to resist improvement. That was the way the world worked, always had, always would.

Ah, but the rich are different,' the footman said, 'they take a lot more looking after.

Rosemary was trying her best to retain good government in this family, against all the odds and without any help from a husband, for whom the quotidian demands of meals and housework and child care were meaningless

All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good women to do nothing. The

Did he know what love was? The love for a father, a sister, for a dog even, yes, but between a husband and wife? Two lives knitted inextricably together. Or yoked and harnessed. (That's the point, Sylvie said, otherwise we would all run wild.)

We, in our less than divine wisdom but apparently quite divine powers, are now transforming the planet like an Olympian might have created an Ice Age, or a Titan might have thrown down an asteroid from the sky to kill off a bunch of dinosaurs. We are the gods. Our scientists have said so.

He reproached his wife with her inattention, her habitual neglect of the children. If it was not a mother's place to look after children, whose on earth was it? He himself had his hands full with his brokerage business.

Edna had once told Madame Ratignolle that she would never sacrifice herself for her children; or for anyone. I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself.

you're doing the same thing I am, only more slowly, and less honestly. You drive a car; you use plastic products; you do whatever the hell you do knowing full well that it's contributing to the end of everyone, and a lot of other animals besides. So don't get all more-life-affirming-than-thou with me, missy, you're on your way out too. In a way, you could see me as he canary down a mine shaft, or maybe synecdoche, the small part representing the whole.

Normally, Edward would have found intrusive, clingy behavior of this sort very annoying, but there was something about Sarah Ruth. He wanted to take care of her. He wanted to protect her. He wanted to do more for her. (page 135)

It seems to be that way with most things. No one to do the really disagreeable jobs except oneself.

There was something scary about watching adults sleep. It was as if no one at all were in charge of the world.

And this is a time to act, not wonder.

Every action, reader, no matter how small, has a consequence.

Should you be driving? said the woman. I should be driving, I told her. I gave her a very-serious grown-up-to-grown-up sort of look. The situation is dire.

It was because he had not loved Abilene enough. And now she was gone from him. And he would never be able to make it right.

Because we must act to make our fate come true, said the king.

hygienist. But

He, who the sword of heaven will bear Should be as holy as severe; Pattern in himself to know, Grace to stand, and virtue go; More nor less to others paying Than by self offenses weighing. Shame to him whose cruel striking Kills for faults of his own liking!

Every action leaves its wake. Even the slightest of people makes a whisper within the world, if only you pause to listen for a soft breath on your cheek.

whatever age you are, you will always be his daughter, his little girl. He cannot help but want to protect you. It is the way of things.

Sometimes I wish I could look away, like other people seem to be able to do. Not feel it's my job to put things right.