Quotes About Responsibility

When I'm brave and strong, and care for children and the sick and the poor, I become a better person. And when I'm cruel, cowardly, or tell lies, or get drunk, I turn into someone less worthy, and I can't respect myself. That's the divine retribution I believe in

All men make mistakes,' said the ancient Greek Sophocles. 'But a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only sin is pride.

She had believed that love was something she could bestow upon whomever she liked, and that her main responsibility was to choose cleverly.

After all, if you can't kill a man in front of God's face you probably shouldn't kill him at all.

If you don't take an interest, then what happens is your fault.

A person who breaks a promise diminishes herself. It's like losing a finger. It's worse than being paralyzed, which is merely physical. Someone whose promises are worthless has a disabled soul.

Everything is ultimately the Prime Minister's fault', said Lloyd. 'That's what it means to be the leader

Ninguém está certo o tempo todo, mas, numa guerra, quando um líder se engana, pessoas morrem.

The old men were still running the country. The politicians who had caused millions of deaths were now celebrating, as if they had done something wonderful.

The degradation to which you subject others comes back, sooner or later, to haunt you

Sergeant Grigori Peshkov. He was elected unopposed. Grigori was pleased. He knew what life was like for soldiers and workers, and he would bring the machine-oil smell of real life to the corridors of power. He would never forget his roots and put on a top hat. He would make sure that unrest led to improvements, not to random violence. Now he had a real chance to make a better life for Katerina and Vladimir.

She was twenty-six years old, her life was ruined, and it was her own fault.

How exciting to be at the center of power." "It is exciting, but strangely enough it doesn't feel like the center of power. In a democracy the president is subject to the voters." "But surely he doesn't just do what the public wants." "Not exactly, no. President Wilson says a leader must treat public opinion the way a sailor deals with the wind, using it to blow the ship in one direction or another, but never trying to go directly against it.

The Bible says, 'If any would not work, neither should he eat.' Saint Paul wrote that, in Second Thessalonians, chapter three, verse ten

The degradation to which you subject others comes back, sooner or later, to haunt you, Maud thought.

And so, Aldred thought, great ones sin with impunity while lesser men are brutally chastised.

Juré a mi padre, cuando se estaba muriendo, que cuidaría de Richard hasta que llegara a ser conde de Shiring - explicó. ¡Pero puede ser que eso no ocurra nunca! Un juramento es un juramento. Es imposible que creas tal cosa -dijo él-. ¡Un juramento sólo son palabras! No es nada en comparación con esto. Esto es real, esto somos tú y yo.

Estas elecciones son demasiado importantes para que se decidan con un puñado de burlas.

It's our responsibility to make politics less rough—more honest, more rational, less violent. If we do not do that, we fail in our patriotic duty.

People know the difference between right and wrong—and if they don't, that's what priests are for.

And that would be sufficient, if we lived in a world that was ruled by laws." Aldred sat on a stool, leaned forward, and spoke quietly. "But the man matters more than the law, as you know.

person who breaks a promise diminishes herself. It's like losing a finger. It's worse than being paralyzed, which is merely physical. Someone whose promises are worthless has a disabled soul.

Perhaps it was irresponsible, Tom thought, to turn down that dull job in Exeter and go looking for a cathedral to build; but I've always been able to feed them all, despite my recklessness.

An apology is designed to make the offender feel okay so that he can do it again. Don't be sorry." Kincaid tried to gather the shreds