Quotes About Responsibility

What's good is what's good for the land.

So we were shouted at, we were beat on. "What gives you the right to do this! Who do you think you are!" We replied to this in the thousand-voice chorus, at a volume of 115 decibels: "WE ARE THE RULE OF LAW.

It's a life or death thing, society, and I think people mainly do recognize that, and the people who deny it are stupid fuckers, I say this unequivocally. Ignorant fools. That kind of stupidity should be put in jail.

Another man said I don't own my kids' teacher, I don't own my doctor, I don't need to own my house. I just want to pay the collective for it, not some landlord.

It is a form of grace to become nothing but a task -Hjalmar Nederland from Kim Stanley Robinson's Icehenge

Who were these people who could live so placidly while the world fell into an acute global environmental crisis? Experts at denial. Experts at filtering their information. Many of those walking by went to church on Sundays, believed in God, voted Republican, spent their time shopping and watching TV. Obviously nice people. The world was doomed.

When you discover that you are living in a fantasy that cannot endure, a fantasy that will destroy your world, and your children, what do you do?

tragedy of the time horizon. Meaning we can't imagine the suffering of the people of the future, so nothing much

we can't imagine the suffering of the people of the future, so nothing much gets done on their behalf. What we do now creates damage that hits decades later, so we don't charge ourselves for it, and the standard approach has been that future generations will be richer and stronger than us, and they'll find solutions to their problems. But by the time they get here, these problems will have become too big to solve. That's the tragedy of the time horizon

What's good is what's good for the land. Instead of working for profit, we do whatever is good for the land. Taking care of the land takes better care of the people over the long haul.

No more fucking around, reality has struck

Worse, there had been a few times when Serena had traveled to out-of-town speaking engagements, and she hadn't been able to

If you want to finish the evening with your usual number of fingers, do any cutting-up, peel-slicing and the like before you have had more than a couple of drinks, preferably before your first.

Mother says I have no heart for my own kind. She doesn't know. I have too much. I know what we have done, and what we deserve.

God hoeft ons niet te straffen. Hij geeft ons gewoon genoeg tijd van leven om het zelf te doen. pag. 341

I sometimes think that Buddhism is the toughest religion in the world. It not only eschews all talk of god but does not allow any instant remedies. Responsibility for one's own acts is its only metaphysics. So

It did not cross the minds of most Hindus that barring exceptions, they were responsible for Catholicism in India. The outcastes of Hinduism, the untouchables, who fell beyond the pale of the caste system had ample reason to convert to Catholicism. The caste-Hindus, as a matter of fact, left them no choice. As sub-humans they were little better than slaves.

Vicdan ancak dans hocas? Shakespeare taraf?ndan icat edilmi?ti

When she opened her eyes, he gave a sudden cry and smashed his clenched fist a couple of times into her wet bottom. His joy was transformed into momentary fury. Otherwise, he never beat his children. That was the mother's job.

Men kvinden hun var som alle vise visste før: uendelig ringe i ævner, men rik i uansvarlighet, i forfængelighet, i letfærdighet. Hun har meget av barnet, men intet av dets uskyld.

Bir ülkede iyi bir hükümet olduÄŸunda, sözler de davran??lar da yüce ve gözü pektir. Kötü hükümet olduÄŸunda, davran??lar yüce ve gözü pek olabilir ama sözlere kimi çekinceler konabilir.

Wenn man noch nicht den Menschen dienen kann, wie sollte man den Geistern dienen können?

Il timore che un cane possa far del male a un bambino è addirittura ridicolo; molto più giustificata è, semmai, la preoccupazione opposta che cioè il cane si lasci tropo strapazzare dai bambini, contribuendo così a educarli a una totale mancanza di riguardo nei suoi confronti.

La fedeltà di un cane è un dono prezioso che impone obblighi morali non meno impegnativi dell'amicizia con un essere umano. Il legame con un cane fedele è altrettanto 'eterno' quanto possono esserlo, in genere, i vincoli fra esseri viventi su questa terra.