Quotes About Responsibility

Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life.

But whose problem is it when you make people talk about you?" "Theirs.

Time is a difficult debt to pay off. Impossible.

One man's mistake can capsize a whole ship of people." "True.

But how do you speak to a granddaughter in her dead mother's stead? Can the responsibility to the dead ever be replaced by the responsibility to the living?

But the thing is, a wife is a wife and you can't ditch her like a worn shirt after a life.

There is never as good a parent as the one who doesn't give birth to a child,

It had never occurred to Teacher Gu that he and his wife were to pay for the bullet that would take their daughter's life, but why question such absurdity when it was not his position to ask?

Most men are undertakers of their women's dreams. And, of course, most women are undertakers of their men's dreams, too.

Lucky she was, she would reply, with no children to break her back, no husband to break her heart.

Her god is just like a Chinese parent, never running out of excuses to love a son.

I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats.

I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?

I don't blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to 'em? More power to 'em.

Whereas John and Yoko might have comfortably lounged around in holiday mode on palatial country estates...the Lennons had this extraordinary urge and need to put something back. To stand up for reason in an unreasonable world, to take advantage of their extraordinary media profile to refocus public attitude and outlook on the murdering of other humans. (Ritchie Yorke)

Humans tend to leave it until we're at the edge of the precipice before we take decisions. I'm an optimist by nature – you can't work in the environmental world if you're not. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/62ebf896-ccc9-11e4-b5a5-00144feab7de.html

We see today on the streets in big cities in America defacing all monuments, defacing American history, disregard for American history, you disregard your past, you basically forsake your future because the only responsible way to confront the future, to advance in the future is by relying on, by studying your past, and American past and core element has been Judeo-Christian values.

The antonym of "forgetting" is not "remembering", but justice .

The notion of a people chosen by God wasn't intended to bestow privilege but responsibility. Jewish history attests that this role carries more burden than glory. The classical way Jews understood their own history was as the story of a people failing to live in the intensity of God's presence. This is the story told by the Hebrew Bible -- a national epic astonishing in its relentless criticism of the people it is supposedly intended to celebrate.

My business is to obey when the Lord commands, and this is the duty of all mankind.

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

Will you love your brothers or sisters likewise, when they have committed a sin that cannot be atoned for without the shedding of their blood? Will you love that man or woman well enough to shed their blood?

The apostleship is the highest authority that can be imposed upon man upon the earth.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.