Quotes About Responsibility

If you want to change the world, then foreign relations is the field in which you can do the most good – or evil.

Nor would he care what the target was. If they bombed Chile, it would be the same as bombing New York.

Don't be a hero. Leave that to them that started the war—the upper classes, the Conservatives, the officers.

Justice was done. Swithin was a murderer and a rapist who deserved to die. But I found that my conscience was not untroubled. I had lured him into an ambush. In a way the death of poor George Cox was my responsibility. I had meddled in things that should have been left to the law or, failing that, to God. I may yet go through anguish in hell for my sin. But if I had to live that time again I would do the same

In the old days you wouldn't discuss politics at all." "If you don't take an interest, then what happens is your fault.

So much hangs on the decisions of a small number of poorly educated people." "That's democracy." Gus smiled. "A terrible way to run a country, but every other system is worse.

It means telling the truth, keeping promises, and taking responsibility for your mistakes. It's the same in business as it is in everyday life. It's a matter of being what you claim to be, doing what you say you'll do.

He had been angry for years about the disgraceful way the priory was run, and now he had a chance to set all those things right himself. Suddenly he was not sure he could. It was not just a question of seeing what ought to be done and ordering that it should be so. People had to be persuaded, property had to be managed, money had to be found. It was a job for a wise head. The responsibility would be heavy.

She had believed that love was something she could bestow upon whomever she liked, and that her main responsibility was to choose cleverly. Now she knew that was all wrong. Cleverness had nothing to do with it, and she had no choice. Love was an earthquake.

I believe that what I do becomes part of me,' she said. '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, or 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.

Arrogance was the vice of good leaders. - Prior Philip

German women have to make hard choices. We're paying for the easy choices German men made fifteen years ago. Men such as my father, who thought Hitler would be good for business, and Heinrich's father, who voted for the Enabling Act. The sins of the fathers are visited on the daughters.

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One man could manage an empty barrel but it took two to move a full one over uneven ground. The two brothers took the empty to the alehouse, with Brindle trotting behind. While they were paying Leaf, two passengers arrived for the ferry. Edgar recognized them as Odo and Adelaide, a husband-and-wife courier team from Cherbourg. They had passed through Dreng's Ferry two weeks earlier on their way to Shiring, accompanied by two men-at-arms, carrying letters and money to Ragna. Edgar

Perhaps we've done enough." Sylvie was shocked. Her mother had never talked this way. Isabelle noticed her reaction and said defensively: "Even God rested on the seventh day, after he made the world." "Our work isn't finished." "Perhaps it never will be, until the Last Trump.

The working class are more numerous than the ruling class, and stronger. They depend on us for everything. We provide their food and build their houses and make their clothes, and without us they die. They can't do anything unless we let them. Always remember that.

Never mind the world—I'm interested only in America. Are we in danger of becoming the world's policeman?' It's a reasonable question.

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El artículo 231 del tratado decía: «Los gobiernos aliados y asociados afirman, y Alemania acepta, que Alemania y sus aliados son responsables de haber causado todas las pérdidas y los daños a los que se han visto sujetos los gobiernos aliados y asociados, así como sus ciudadanos, como consecuencia de la guerra que les fue impuesta por la agresión de Alemania y sus aliados».

hombres de poder jamás muestran gratitud. Démosles lo que les demos, lo aceptan como un derecho.

Daisy was in love. She knew, now, that she had never loved anyone before Lloyd. She had never truly loved Boy, though she had been excited by him. She had believed that love was something she could bestow upon whomever she liked, and that her main responsibility was to choose cleverly. Now she knew that was all wrong. Cleverness had nothing to do with it, and she had no choice. Love was an earthquake.

The parents cannot sell what they do not own, namely the freedom of a grown man.

Our government has betrayed us," said his father. "In your opinion. So what? In America, when the Republicans won the last election, the Democrats didn't riot!

Every man who ever robbed or raped or murdered had a mother, and many had wives who loved them and children who needed them. But they killed other women's husbands, and sold other men's children into slavery, and took other people's life savings to spend in alehouses and brothels. They must be punished.