Quotes About Responsibility

Me, I had never been sure – only thing I was sure of was that Dr. Chan would not himself sit on a target. But he might not warn his old mother.

We can be selective, applying precisely the required amount of pressure at the specified point at a designated time—we've never been told to go down and kill or capture all left-handed redheads in a particular area, but if they tell us to, we can. We will.

Every citizen is free to perform any act which does not hamper the equal freedom of another. No law shall forbid the performance of any act, which does not damage the physical or economic welfare of any other person.

Young man, can you restore my eyesight?" "Sir? Why, no, sir!" "You would find it much easier than to instill moral virtue—social responsibility—into a person who doesn't have it, doesn't want it, and resents having the burden thrust on him.

I'm so busy doing what I must do that I don't have time for what I ought to do . . . and I never get a chance to do what I want to do!" "Son, that's universal. The way to keep that recipe from killing you is occasionally to do what you want to do anyhow. Which is right now.

In a mature society, "civil servant" is semantically equal to "civil master.

To vote is to wield authority; it is the supreme authority from which all other authority derives—such

However, you are just as dead if you buy a farm in an "incident" as you are if you buy it in a declared war.

I would be—and will be—much disappointed in you if you ever simply injure a policeman. A wounded policeman is more dangerous than a wounded lion.

adult delinquents—people of mature years who either do not know their duty, or who, knowing it, fail.

I suspect that there are just two sorts of lawyers: those who spend their efforts making life easy for other people—and parasites.

To be court-martialed—for any reason—is eight times as bad for an officer as for an enlisted man. Offenses which will get privates kicked out (maybe with lashes, possibly without) rate death in an officer. Better never to have been born!

Harshaw held that certain feet were made for stepping on, in order to improve the breed, promote the general welfare, and minimize the ancient insolence of office; he had seen at once that Heinrich had such feet.

May I ask this? Under what circumstances is it moral for a group to do that which is not moral for a member of that group to do alone?" "Uh . . . that's a trick question." "It is the key question, dear Wyoming. A radical question that strikes to the root of the whole dilemma of government. Anyone who answers honestly and abides by all consequences knows where he stands—and what he will die for.

If you got good elective officials in your day, it was a happy accident, better than you deserved.

If it has to be done, a man—a real man—shoots his own dog himself; he doesn't

A rational anarchist believes that concepts such as 'state' and 'society' and 'government' have no existence save as physically exemplified in the acts of self-responsible individuals.

First, I want your solemn oath not even to talk in your sleep about this job. If my simple word is not good, is my oath better?

It is by no means enough that an officer should be capable. . . . He should be as well a gentleman of liberal education, refined manners, punctilious courtesy, and the nicest sense of personal honor. . . . No meritorious act of a subordinate should escape his attention, even if the reward be only one word of approval. Conversely, he should not be blind to a single fault in any subordinate.

There was a lot to be said for the job of assistant section leader—when you come right to it, it's a lot easier to die than it is to use your head.

A credit card is a leash around your neck. In the world of credit cards a person has no privacy…

Nine times out of ten, if a girl gets raped, it's partly her fault.

A constituição diz que todas as pessoas, homens e mulheres, têm o direito inalienável de prestar o serviço e assumir a cidadania plena... Mas o fato é que está ficando difícil achar algo pra todos os voluntários fazerem que não seja apenas uma forma disfarçada de descascar batatas.

When will I learn? Had Boss wished to disclose the method, he would have told me. "Careless slips sink ships." Not around Boss.)