Quotes About Responsibility

But there was one thing he actually did believe in that bordered on the magical, or at least the beyond-pedestrian, and that was the duty a writer owed to a story.

Keeping silent blocks both judgment and change.

What happened in Nyamata, in the churches, in the marshes and on the hills, were the abnormal actions of perfectly normal people. Here's why I say that. The principal and the inspector of schools in my district joined in the killings with nail-studded clubs. Two teachers, colleagues with whom I used to share beers and student evaluations, pitched in to help, so to speak. A priest, the mayor, the assistant chief of police, a doctor - they all killed with their own hands.

And humanism—that transcendent vision that spans centuries and religions in its celebration of reason, responsibility, art, and examined lives—has been tossed out like old bathwater, leaving humanity naked and shivering on the dirty ground. He

Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.

Now the thing about having a baby — and I can't be the first person to have noticed this — is that thereafter you have it.

Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living.

The only reason that they say, 'Women and children first' is to test the strength of the lifeboats.

Meghan and her husband had talked about how they wanted to be open and comfortable with Eva when talking about sex, but they had expected Eva's first questions to be about where babies come from, not this. This was not what they had in mind! Should Meghan actually describe oral sex? What could this possibly mean to a 7-year-old? And how would her explanation affect Eva's understanding about sex and relationships between caring adults, both short and long term?

When her existence is threatened, the Church is absolved of all moral commandments

Your only responsibility as a writer is to be true to the story that has chosen you as its writer.

A man can work from sun to sun, But a woman's work is never done.

The earth we leave is beautiful and rich; it gave us all we needed for all the generations we have lived. How will you leave it when it is your turn? What can you do?

Yet GenX'er teens didn't slow down--they were just as likely to drive, drink alcohol, and date as their Boomer peers and more likely to have sex and get pregnant as teens. But then they waited longer to reach full adulthood with careers and children. So GenX'ers managed to lengthen adolescence beyond all previous limits: they started becoming adults earlier and finished becoming adults later.

Adolescence--the time when teens begin to do things adults do--now happens later. Thirteen-year-olds--and even 18-year-olds-- are less likely to act like adults and spend their time like adults. They are more likely, instead, to act like children--not by being immature, necessarily, but by postponing the usual activities of adults. Adolescence is now an extension of childhood rather than the beginning of adulthood.

No matter what the cause, the result is the same: iGen teens are less likely to experience the freedom of being out of the house without their parents--those first tantalizing tastes of the independence of being an adult, those times when teens make their own decisions, good or bad.

The best advice one can offer to both press and public is the suggestion Ronald Reagan himself gave to students in Chicago ... Don't let me get away with it. Check me out. Don't be the sucker generation.

Dans la vie on ne fait pas ce que l'on veut mais on est responsable de ce que l'on est.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat

his dearest wish was that he could have a quiet life free from his obligations.

People often vented their rage on those who were the victims of their neglect because they were in truth blaming themselves.

You have named him, not I.

Quand tu sauras mon crime, et le sort qui m'accable, Je n'en mourrai pas moins, j'en mourrai plus coupable

One kills a man, one is an assassin one kills millions, one is a conqueror one kills everybody, one is a god.