Quotes About Responsibility

Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up to us.

The words 'I am...' are potent words be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you.

When thy neighbours house is on fire, by its light thou mayest see thine own danger,

proportionately, being a journalist in a war is more dangerous than being in the Special Forces, and more important.

No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.

It's your fault, Eeyore. You've never been to see any of us. You just stay here in this one corner of the Forest waiting for the others to come to you. Why don't you go to THEM sometimes?

James gave the huffle of a snail in danger. And nobody heard him at all.

Owl," said Rabbit shortly, "you and I have brains. The others have fluff. If there is any thinking to be done in this Forest--and when I say thinking I mean thinking--you and I must do it.

The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief—call it what you will—than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.

Don't blame me if it rains.

Rolf Harris is a hard man to hate, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try

In the event of a total loss of direction in life, be sure to sort our your own shit before you start telling people what to do.

What kind of love demands the life of another? A child at that?" "Danish love, my sweet. Can't you smell it?

Forgiveness is between them and God. It's my job to arrange the meeting.

In retrospect, though many were guilty, none was innocent.

It is always tempting when you have political discontent in your own country to say it is the fault of some other country and not of your own government.

Those British generals who prolonged the slaughter kept their posts and won promotion; any who protested ran the risk of dismissal. By

To be able to do and to abstain from doing, is to be twice able.

Let parents be ever on their guard, for no one can kindle hell in his own blood, and devote his own issue to misfortune, without being himself burnt and made wretched.

Seen nothing? Idiot! We have all the work and all the worry: children to feed, wounds to tend. Once the war is over, you men are all heroes. The dead: heroes. The survivors: heroes. The maimed: heroes. That's why you invented war. It's your war. You wanted it, so get on with it – heroes, my ass!

The people have already atoned For the past and the future

I miei figli non giocano. Cosa fanno? Si preparano ad attraversare la vita. Dico: Io la vita l'ho attraversata e non ho trovato nulla.

Un uomo dice: - Tu chiudi il becco! Le donne non sanno niente della guerra. La donna dice: - Non sanno niente? Coglione! Abbiamo tutto il lavoro, tutte le preoccupazioni: i bambini da sfamare, i feriti da curare. Voi, una volta finita la guerra siete tutti degli eroi. Morti: eroi. Sopravvissuti: eroi. Mutilati: eroi. E' per questo che avete inventato la guerra, voi uomini. E' la vostra guerra. L'avete voluta voi, fatela allora, eroi dei miei stivali!