Quotes About Responsibility

The Colorado River was at a record low and the towers in Lake Mead stood high out of the water. But the Angelenos committed communal suicide by watering lawns as usual.

It's much safer to break a law knowingly than to do so through ignorance.

There is an old picture of a people traveling by sleigh through deep woods—pursued by wolves. Every now and then they grab one of their number and toss him to the wolves. That's conscription even if you call it "selective service" and pretty it up with USOs and "veterans' benefits

every choice must be paid for.

Pop says cops and courts no longer protect citizens, so citizens must protect themselves.

A managed democracy is a wonderful thing, Manuel, for the managers . . . and its greatest strength is a 'free press' when 'free' is defined as 'responsible' and the managers define what is 'irresponsible.

Çaban?n kendilerinden gelmesi gerektiÄŸi fikri... ve yaÅŸad?klar? tüm sorunlar?n kendilerinden kaynakland??? gerçeÄŸi... kabul etmedikleri ya da edemeyecekleri bir ÅŸeydi.

The wicked flee when no man pursueth.

It is an unwritten law of the Navy that facilities must always be locked when they are most needed.

The basis of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual.

If a captain worries about the safety of his command, those under him need not worry.

government is a dangerous servant and a terrible master. You now have freedom—if you can keep it. But do remember that you can lose this freedom more quickly to yourselves than to any other tyrant.

like fire and fusion, government is a dangerous servant and a terrible master.

I could not live at home until it was all paid because I had to keep my job to meet those monthly payments. For what, then? Not for sex. As I told Captain Torrney, sex is everywhere; it's silly to pay for it. For the privilege of getting my hands into soapy dishwater, I guess. For the privilege of rolling around on the floor and being peed on by puppies and babies only nominally housebroken.

That was Heinlein in a nutshell: the responsible human being, the competent human being, the human being who knows how to die gallantly when faced with the Birkenhead drill. Not because it's heroic, but because

By the sixties everyone talked about his "rights" and no one spoke of his duties—and patriotism was a subject for jokes.

Voják pÃ…â"¢ijímá osobní odpovÄ›dnost za bezpe?nost obce, ke které pÃ…â"¢ináleží, a v pÃ…â"¢ípadÄ› nutnosti ji brání svým životem. Civilista to nedÄ›lá.

Zeb should command while Jacob handled space-time controls—to each his own. Jacob had asked me to please take orders from Zeb with no back talk … which had miffed me a little.

Boss, you're nitpicking to avoid admitting that it was your fault, not mine.

Seems a funny way to run things. But of course I've never paid taxes." "You just think you haven't. You started the day you were born. We may eliminate death someday but I doubt if we'll ever eliminate taxes.

Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost.

Svoboda není nikdy nezcizitelná, pravidelnÄ› musí být obnovována krví vlastenc? nebo navždy zmizí. Ze vÅ¡ech takzvaných pÃ…â"¢irozených lidských práv, která kdy byla vymyÅ¡lena, je u svobody nejménÄ› pravdÄ›podobné, že bude levná, a nikdy není zadarmo.

Well, we shoot mad dogs, don't we?

I like to feel that I've paid rent on the piece of earth I'm using.