Quotes About Responsibility

Cuando supe que Adolf Eichmann murió con la palabra "Argentina" en su boca, cuando me enteré del mensaje de "amor eterno" que, en el umbral del más allá, había enviado a mi país, confieso que sentí vergüenza.

Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.

Naturally, potables stronger than Diet Coke are the responsibility of the individual. As always, cocktail hour begins at sunrise.

Sometime duty calls at ten p.m. on a Wednesday night.

If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, then what am I? And if not now, when?" (Pirkei Avot 1:14)

To us] The only thing worse than trying to kill yourself and failing is having to talk to your mom after trying to kill yourself and failing-- particularly when she knows deep down somewhere it's at least partially her fault, but her mouth and brain have never actually formed the phrase "I'm sorry" in her entire life, so here you are, with nothing but a berry smoothie between you, and... and...

Lieutenant Commander Galloway [behind a chain link fence at a ball field]: Do you know what a code red is? Lieutenant Kaffee, standing on the ball field, looks at her in silence with a blank expression on his face. Galloway: What a pity.

We live in a world that has walls and those walls need to be guarded by men with guns.

Decisions are made by those who show up

You can't handle the truth . You can't handle the sad but historic reality. - Lt.Col Nathan Jessep

LTJG Kaffee: I want the truth! Col Jessup: You can't handle the truth!

We are a sum of our choices. We are not our single choices.

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

In this state, dig it, you get twenty years for sale of dope to a minor. You only get five to ten for manslaughter. So like, the thing is, if you're selling to a kid and cops come, shoot the kid real quick!

Democracy is not something you believe in or hang your hat on, but something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles and falls. If you participate, the future is yours.

To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.

Through the wise ordering of Creation man has been given the power to shape conditions for himself with the Power of the Creator. Happy is he who uses it only for good! But woe unto him who succumbs to the temptation to use it for evil!

The alpha male must not be a wife beta.

Lorsqu'on ne peut attaquer le message, on attaque le messager.

Même si tu te trouves en position de force, ne le montre pas, et surtout ne t'en sers jamais!! Le fait d'avoir l'autorité ultime et la responsabilité directe de l'accès à une source d'eau ou à une rivière, ne t'autorise pas à priver les autres d'eau.

first casualties of every are the weak people like women, children and elderly and the last people who speak about are the UN, EU and USA

first casualties of every war are the weak people like women, children and elderly and the last people who speak about are the UN, EU and USA

The curse of the 21st censury is not cars but the deliberate ignorance to human rights.

Helpless creatures ought, on the contrary, to be treated as sacred trusts, whether they are orphans, or dependants, or creatures of any kind unable to assert themselves.