Quotes About Responsibility

You see, Doctor, God didn't kill that little girl. Fate didn't butcher her and destiny didn't feed her to those dogs. If God saw what any of us did that night he didn't seem to mind. From then on I knew... God doesn't make the world this way. We do.

The Rudderless World is not shaped by vague metaphysical Forces. It is not God who kills the Children. Not Fate that butchers them or Destiny that feeds them to the Dogs. ... It´s us. Only us.

Adrian Veidt: I did the right thing, didn't I? It all worked out in the end. Dr. Manhattan: 'In the end'? Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.

Born from oblivion; bear children, hell-bound as ourselves; go into oblivion. There is nothing else. Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose. This rudderless world is not shaped by vague metaphysical forces. It is not God who kills the children. Not fate that butchers them or destiny that feeds them to the dogs. It's us. Only us.

Once a man has seen society's black underbelly, he can never turn his back on it. Never pretend, like you do, that it doesn't exist.

Please! Don't all leave. Somebody has to do it, don't you see? Somebody has to save the world...

Who watches the watchmen?

Everybody is becoming [a superhero]. In the past I've tried to say, 'Look, we are all crappy superheroes,' because personal computers and mobile phone devices are things that only Bat Man and Mr Fantastic would have owned back in the sixties. We've all got this immense power and we're still sat at home watching pornography and buying scratch cards. We're rubbish, even though we are as gods.

Each day and every deed's eternal, little boy. Live them in such a way that you can bear to live with them eternally.

Don't tell me they didn't have a choice. Now the whole world stands on the brink, staring down into bloody hell, all those liberals and intellectuals and smooth-talkers... and all of a sudden, nobody can think of anything to say.

The roots of the word 'anarchy' are 'an archos,' 'no leaders,' which is not really about the kind of chaos that most people imagine when the word 'anarchy' is mentioned. I think that anarchy is, to the contrary, about taking personal responsibility for yourself.

Until then, we're society's only protection. We keep it up long as we have to. Protection? Who are we protecting them from?

Aprovechados, impostores, mentirosos, lunáticos... esos han sido los que han tomado las decisiones. Así de sencillo. Pero, ¿quién los eligió? ¡Tú! ¡Tú les buscaste! ¡Tú les nombraste! ¡Tú les diste el poder de decidir por ti! Admito que cualquiera puede equivocarse una vez, pero cometer los mismos errores fatales siglo tras siglo me parece un tanto deliberado.

Without me, things would have been different. If the fat man hadn't crushed the watch, if I hadn't left it in the test chamber. . . Am I to blame, then? Or the fat man? Or my father, for choosing my career? Which of us is responsible? Who makes the world?

It's not God that kills the children. Not fate that butchers them or destiny that feeds them to the dogs. It's us. Only us.

I tried to imagine what it would feel like... to be sixteen years old and the most powerful creature on the face of the planet... and to be answerable to no-one. You could do anything, John. You'd never need to turn back to dull, weak, human Johnny Bates ever again... [y]ou could sever all your links with humanity. You could become remorseless, unstoppable... and totally corrupt.

The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout save us!... ...and I'll look down and whisper no.

A lét véletlenszer?. Nincs benne szabály, csak amit mi képzelünk bele, ha sokáig nézzük. Nincs értelme, csak amit mi aggatunk rá. Ezt a vitorla nélküli világot nem homályos metafizikai erÅ'k szabják. Nem isten öli meg a gyerekeket. Nem a sors darabolja fel Å'ket, és nem a végzet veti a kutyák elé. Hanem mi. Csak mi.

La buena escritura es la que empuja al lector a un compromiso activo. El arte realmente efectivo exige que el público haga al menos la mitad del trabajo

We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.

The judge does not make the law. It is the people that make the law. It is the duty of a judge to do justice, but it is only the people that can be just

Stand unshod upon it, for the ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator. Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.

Meneer, said the captain, if man takes unto himself God's right to punish, then he must also take upon himself God's promise to restore.

He was reluctant to open it, for once such a thing is opened, it cannot be shut again.