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Quotes About Responsibility

Are we at mercy of technology or is technology at mercy of us?
~ Ali Smith
It isn't a good enough answer, that one group of people can be in charge of the destinies of another group of people and choose whether to exclude them or include them. Human beings have to be more ingenious than this, and more generous. We've got to come up with a better answer.
~ Ali Smith
I'm tired of lying governments. I'm tired of people not caring whether they're being lied to any more. I'm tired of being made to feel this fearful. I
~ Ali Smith
We have to hope that the people who love us and who know us a little bit will in the end have seen us truly. In the end, not much else matters. It is the only responsibility memory has. But, of course, memory and responsibility are strangers. They're foreign to each other. Memory always goes its own way quote regardless.
~ Ali Smith
She was working at her computer in her office, doing admin, which is short for administration, which is short for migraine-stimulant.
~ Ali Smith
Say that the berries on a tree fermented / say that some birds ate them got drunk demented / couldn't fly straight flew straight into instead / wall of an office block and fell down dead / down on the pavement people undeterred / stepping over the mound of broken bird
~ Ali Smith
believe that there's no such thing as society.
~ Ali Smith
Is it possible, he said, to be in love not with someone but with their eyes. I mean, with how eyes that aren't yours let you see where you are, who you are…We have to hope that the people who love us and who know us a little bit will in the end have seen us truly. In the end, not much else matters…It is the only responsibility memory has. But, of course, memory and responsibility are strangers. They're foreign to each other. Memory always goes its own way quote regardless.
~ Ali Smith
We have to hope that the people who love us and who know us a little bit will in the end have seen us truly. In the end, not much else matters. It is the only responsibility memory has. But, of course, memory and responsibility are strangers. They're foreign to each other. Memory always goes its own way quite regardless.
~ Ali Smith
The world order was changing and what was truly new, here and there… was that the people in power were self-servers who'd no idea about and felt no responsibility towards history.
~ Ali Smith
Who needs a school homework assignment to be trustworthy? Sacha said.
~ Ali Smith
Getting old is pathetic if you use it as an excuse for no longer being responsible.
~ Ali Smith
So you were advised to go to Snappy Snaps already but you chose not to go, the woman says.
~ Ali Smith
I cannot tell a lie. It was me who chopped down the cherry tree. Now that I've been so honest, make me a precedent. No, not president. I said precedent.
~ Ali Smith
to speak without thinkin will lead you to an early grave, or to a very small cinder-block cell!
~ Ali Vali
Much must remain esoteric and veiled. The risks of too much knowledge are far greater than the menace of too little. With knowledge comes responsibility and power,—two things for which the race is not yet ready. Therefore, all we can do is to study and correlate with what wisdom and discretion may be ours, using the knowledge that may come for the good of those we seek to help, and recognising that in the wise use of knowledge comes increased capacity to receive the hidden wisdom.
~ Alice A. Bailey
My father told me that if a man is the head of the house, the woman is its heart. And a man without a heart is no more than a corpse.
~ Alice Borchardt
conveying the message that sexual touching requires consent, you're obviously conveying values and judgments. And
~ Alice Dreger
I couldn't help but think hard about what you're supposed to do when the facts seem to be leading you into danger.
~ Alice Dreger
Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.
~ Alice Duer Miller
Is it true that the English government is calling on women to do work abandoned by men? Yes, it is true. Is not a woman's place the home? No, not when men need her services outside the home. Will she never be told again that her place is the home? Oh, yes, indeed. When? As soon as men want their jobs back again.
~ Alice Duer Miller
Dear friend, come home. I have tragic news," he said. She looked straight at him without a spasm of fear, Her face not stern or masked-- "Is it Percy or John?" she asked. "Percy." She dropped her eyes. "I am needed here. Surely you know I cannot go Until every letter is written. The dead Must wait on the living," she said. "This is my work. I must stay.
~ Alice Duer Miller
Don't Dare take your college as a matter of course- because like freedom and democracy, many people you'll never know anything about have broken their hearts to get it for you.
~ Alice Duer Miller BC 1889
Maud had taught her how to go to sleep, and how to put herself back to sleep at night if she awoke. It was a great accomplishment, but no one wanted to hear about the triumphant work of mothers. It was a taken-for-granted form of labor, worth little to no money. She had to pat her own back for that.
~ Alice Elliott Dark