Quotes About Responsibility

College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for you to go to a strange town and get drunk every night?

We walk the brink of racial suicide because we were smart enough to make atomic bombs and stupid enough to use them.

As I researched an article for The Atlantic that served as a launch point for this book, speaking to many people, characteristics of Invisibles began to crystallize. Fascinatingly, I found they all consistently embody Three Traits: 1) Ambivalence toward recognition 2) Meticulousness 3) Savoring of responsibility

Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.

The motivating force behind the UNDHR and the 1951 Convention on the Status of Refugees was a desire to ensure that never again would there be such suffering as that experienced in the wake of the Second World War. Unfortunately that is exactly what is happening now.

a.m. for about an hour, tops. That's when they could keep their promise and, to their credit, they never broke it. Hope was sorry that she couldn't rely on her mum and dad for babysitting

Now, he numbly stands stock-still, in abject fear that this whole catastrophe may well be his doing.

I wish I was a man. A man can do so many things. He can go to sea. He can be a soldier. He can fly. He can crawl in and out of beds. He can get drunk and into messes. Then all he has to do is sober up and take a bath and no one thinks less of him".

The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.

The born again nihilist has nothing to blame for their fall

Corporatism trying to redeem itself through charity is akin to a serial killer offering to pay a fine for his crimes.

Can the perpetrator of a "senseless" crime use transcendence as a defense?

Uneasy lies the head that wears a Knighthood

Freedom, in the abstract, is irresponsibility for your choices. Freedom, in reality, is total responsibility for your choices. Treat freedom with the responsibility and realism it deserves.

When failing spectacularly the trick is to employ an inverted Schadenfreude. Take ownership of your misfortune.

Those who try and fix the world are usually those who have trouble fixing the fundamental problems in their own lives

With Great Power Comes Great Psychopathy

Stop outsourcing your morality to governments

Dynamite is loyal to the one who lights the fuse.

I'd rather lose my own money than someone else's.

Do not think to be leader in office; think to be leader in your own business.

No freedom at all when we give birth to lie. No freedom at all when we hurt other persons' rights. No freedom at all when the leader listens to gossiping. At last, we cannot walk or work because we're free for nothing.

The most crime is; when a brave person hid to tell the Truth because many people will suffer most.

Do as little harm to others as you can; make any sacrifice for your true friends; be responsible for yourself and ask nothing of others; and grab all the fun you can. Don't give much thought to yesterday, don't worry about tomorrow, live in the moment, and trust that your existence has meaning even when the world seems to be all blind chance and chaos. When life lands a hammer blow in your face, do your best to respond to the hammer as if it had been a cream pie.