Quotes About Responsibility

For a brief review of our history to date shows us in a very singular role:that of serial killers.

Please take note that any and all dragon petting will be at your own peril. We are not liable for any injuries sustained while petting.

At all times an empire is more important than emperor and empress, prince and princess.

Climate Change is a bit like our advanced societies. Too late to "fix." The only choice left is that we adapt to what we've created.

In my opinion, questions that are based on something real ought to be settled by something real without all this damned lazy miserable drifting

Politics doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt politics.

What's the use of having developed a science well enough to make predictions if, in the end, all we're willing to do is stand around and wait for them to come true?

As one climbs up the ladders in society, one starts feeling more and more like an owner, less like a member of it.

This director could say many things about duty, and self-respect, and dignity, but she knew none of these meant much in the post-modern world.

The worst kind of victim was the kind that was aware of nothing.

If you don't act now, the day is not far, that this beautiful planet of yours, which you call home, shall be turned into a dry barren wasteland by the blood-sucking fundamentalists.

The main thing about aliens is that they are alien. They feel no responsibility for fulfilling any of your expectations. (Dark City Lights)

This is the legacy of a compassionate bunch. Our fate now rests on the whims of men.

If humanity is annihilated because we were too busy squabbling with one another to manage a proper stand, we probably deserve the annihilation.

Sustainability before ambition. Okal Rel.

We lived longer but at a price. We had to be our own children, having none.

You can not go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those who come after.

Such kings can destroy a world, just as easily as they can build one.

People didn't love all of this when they still had it. If you love something, you do what's best for it. You don't destroy it.

A leader's first duty is to look after his or her people, especially those who are sick, hungry, or thirsty.

Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our responsibility as human beings to make such judgments.

In any event, we must remember that it's not the blinded wrongdoers who are primarily responsible for the triumph of evil in the world, but the spiritually sighted servants of the good.

Sorry has got to be the most over-used cliched get-out clause in the history of mankind. Tossed out flippantly without any real meaning or substance.

The means and the results, the good and the bad, are within all of us who are aware and care.