Quotes About Responsibility

The "married look," "the "Mom and Dad look," etc., which are not scientific concepts but which everybody can recognize at once, have to do with an acute time-sense. The parent is concerned not just with acquiring bio-survival tickets for personal nurture, but with acquiring tickets for the young, and for the future.

NO "EXTERNAL" SITUATION MAKES A MENTAL STATE "INEVITABLE

Once again, it appears that the materialist model of mechanical consciousness covers some but not all experience, and it excludes precisely that part of experience which makes us human, esthetic, moral and responsible beings. One may suspect that this is why the materialist age has become increasingly inhuman, ugly, amoral and blindly irresponsible.

Researchers don't do certain kinds of research because they don't want to get thrown into San Quentin, as happened to Dr. Leary.

There can of course be no doubt that any sort of addiction, whether to opiates, barbiturates, or alcohol, is always an evil and always involves slavery. Society, however, when it shoulders responsibility for preventing such abuse, treads on very slippery ground. The real situation tends to become clouded by misconceptions, and legislation is often enacted which tends to aggravate the very evils it was intended to prevent. Robert DeRopp, M.D., Drugs and the Mind

There are a lot of different realities going around these days," Abbie Hoffman once said. Evolutionary acceleration is forcing us to the point where each will have to take responsibility for which reality we accept.

Candy nodded absently. "Okay," she said. "What shall I wear?" "A gun," I said.

if you lay back and let oblivion roll over you, it will be your fault.

What we have here," I said, "is a roomful of culprits, with varying levels of culpritude.

How about, you never act like a jerk when you're working," Jenn said. Jesse nodded. "It's why I work," he said.

To kill a man you need three things: the gun and the balls?" "We can get the gun okay

You do the best you can and you deal with the consequences. It's all there is.

Freedom of the press is a flaming sword," I said. "Use it wisely, hold it high, guard it well.

Freedom of the press is a flaming sword. Use it wisely, hold it high, guard it well.

What I must do concerns me, not what people think.' 

If doing the crime is proof of insanity, and sanity is a defense against conviction, then the crime is its exculpation, and no one is responsible for anything.

Ollie do any of his own work?" "Mostly he runs things.

A pig is a pig," she said. "Whether he's public or private, he works for the same people." "Next time you're in trouble," I said, "call a hippie.

A way of living better is to make the decisions you need to make based on what you can control. When you can.

He owes us more then that.

You do the best you can, as decently as you can, and you accept the consequences.

Ten minutes out of the city I made Hawk stop the car and I threw up on the side of the road. When I got back in the car Hawk said, "You shot Leo to protect those whores." I nodded. "Had to be done," Hawk said. "I know." "You'll feel better in a while," Hawk said. "Better than Leo," I said.

No trouble at all. Mother's gone back to bed, and she won't be doing any cooking—I was only going to set out some cold cuts and make some coffee. If that's all right with you." "Well——

Even in peacetime, a military man is deployed for long periods, leaving his spouse to take care of the children and their schooling, to pay the bills, to make sure the lawn is mowed and the oil in the car is changed, and to handle dozens of other tasks usually done by him. During wartime, always hanging over the military wife is the fear that her husband may be wounded or killed in combat.