Quotes About Responsibility

Of all the ways of filling one's life and of creating the illusion of purpose and worth, none seems so effective as the voluntary subjugation to a set of duties. The satisfaction derived from the daily performance of duties is so unalloyed that the inclination is strong to pile duty upon duty and revel in their performance.

Freedom aggravates at least as much as it alleviates frustration. Freedom of choice places the whole blame of failure on the shoulders of the individual. And as freedom encourages a multiplicity of attempts, it unavoidably multiplies failure and frustration. Freedom alleviates frustration by making available the palliatives of action, movement, change and protest.

It is understandable that those who fail should incline to blame the world for their failure.

Marriage is hard work, and you have to show up in hard hat and boots every day of every year.

guilt force justification!

A man won't buy the cow when he can get the milk for free" phrase my momma used to say has popped into my head one, maybe two million times

Early is on time, on time is late, and late is uacceptable.

In one major U.S. city, The New York Times reports, unclaimed bodies "are piling up faster than the city can handle them"; boxes containing the personal papers of the deceased are "piled floor to ceiling" in the county office.22 "We had never been so busy before," one Cook County investigator explained, "but nothing about the heat wave was really unusual except the amounts" (see fig

Today, our communities are full of children whose future, like Jelani's, will be formed in the places where they go to learn about themselves and the world they'll inherit. They deserve palaces. Whether they get them is up to us.

It wasn't her fault, but it was her fate, like so many single mothers, to be caught between a wistful child and his fantasies of the father who is perfect, in part because he is hardly ever there.

Uno no tiene por qué pedir disculpas si quiere ser el dueño de su propia alma... para bien o para mal. Cuando ya todo se ha dicho y hecho, es todo cuanto queda.

A good woman would have given her life to the care and feeding of her husband's madness. I was not a good woman. I had too many other things to do.

You did not have to apologize for wanting to own your own soul. Your soul belonged to you—for better or worse. When all was said and done, it was all you had.

Non è necessario picchiare le donne se si riesce a farle sentire in colpa.

But at the bottom of all the gloom, there is a sense that we are responsible for each other -- if not for each other's happiness. There is empathy, admiration, respect for the other's intelligence and honesty.

Le mal, c'est la promesse qu'on ne tient pas...

Che gli uomini ci credano o meno, sfuggono a Dio perché rimangono liberi. Sta a loro mettere a frutto quella libertà, che esisterà solo se la utilizzano. Che il cielo sia pieno o vuoto, non c'è dubbio che tocchi agli uomini farsi carico degli uomini. Anzi, farsi carico di Dio. Soltanto loro possono travestirlo o comprenderlo, ascoltarlo o rimanere sordi, leggerlo bene o leggerlo male, esercitare il proprio spirito critico.

Il saggio trova in sé la causa dei propri errori, il pazzo ne accusa gli altri».

Ecco. Bisogna distinguere due pene, Oscar, la sofferenza fisica e la sofferenza morale. La sofferenza fisica la si subisce. La sofferenza morale la si sceglie.» «Non capisco.» «Se ti piantano dei chiodi nei polsi o nei piedi, non puoi far altro che avere male. Subisci. Invece, all'idea di morire, non sei obbligato ad avere male. Non sai che cos'è. Dipende dunque da te.»

Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.

Freedom does not mean license.

Care and responsibility are constituent elements of love, but without respect for and knowledge of the beloved person, love deteriorates into domination and possessiveness.

Freedom to creat and construct, to wonder and to venture. Such freedom requires that the individual be active and responsible, not a slave or a well-fed cog in the machine . . . It is not enough that men are not slaves; if social conditions further the existence of automatons, the result will not be love of life, but love of death.

The ultimate choice for a man, in as much as he is given to transcend himself, is to create or destroy, to love or to hate.