Quotes about responsibility
responsibility government ideas
If the government were to invest that money in higher education and public services, these would be far better investments. But administrators and academics in the U.S. for the most part don't make these arguments; instead they have retreated from defending the university as a citadel of public values and in doing so have abdicated any sense of social responsibility to the idea of the university as a site of inspired by the search for truth, justice, freedom, and dignity. Henry Giroux
responsibility ethics language
Under a neoliberal regime, the language of authority, power and command is divorced from ethics, social responsibility, critical analysis and social costs.
responsibility able way
I live in a kind of controlled awareness. I wouldn't call it fear, but it's an awareness. I know I have a responsibility to behave in a certain way. I'm able to do that. Mary Tyler Moore
responsibility games perfect-one
It's really hard to perfect one aspect of your kicking game when you're spending some of your time kicking with a holder, some of your time kicking off a tee, and some of your time drop-kicking the ball. To be able to concentrate just on my punting responsibilities will do wonders for me. Pat McAfee
responsibility winning self
To win over your bad self is the grandest and foremost of victories. Plato
responsibility land important
Those living in rural areas as well as those with a planning policy remit for those areas have an important responsibility to protect green belt agricultural land for the wider benefit of feeding the UK into the uncertain future that we all face Phil Harding
responsibility men house
When a man ends up in the White House who boasts about not having a clue and who says that specialist knowledge is elite nonsense, then a critical point has been reached. Then you will have an obviously irresponsible man sitting in a position that requires the utmost degree of responsibility. Martin Schulz
responsibility humanity world
The first world is going to have to account for this sort of horrible poverty in our midst. We have to, first of all, become aware of it. We have to take responsibility for it. And then we have to do something about it for our own freedom, for our own salvation, for our own humanity. Martin Sheen
responsibility technology ideas
Scientists surely have a special responsibility. It is their ideas that form the basis of new technology. They should not be indifferent to the fruits of their ideas. They should forgo experiments that are risky or unethical. Martin Rees
responsibility fate world
As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world. Lech Walesa
responsibility way lead-in
I have a responsibility to lead, in more ways than one, and I take that very seriously. LeBron James
responsibility fans individual
Over-commercialization and its resulting restrictions and limitations can be very damaging and distorting to the inherent nature of the individual. I did not deliberately abandon my fans, nor did I deliberately abandon any responsibilities. Lauryn Hill
responsibility choices feelings
Now that I'm feeling the responsibilities of adulthood, the choices we make become an incredible weight. Laura Marling
responsibility feelings relief
The feeling of relinquishing responsibility to someone else, letting him take control, was a relief beyond words. Lisa Kleypas
responsibility feelings creation
The feeling of a direct responsibility of the individual to God is almost wholly a creation of Protestantism. John Stuart Mill
responsibility choices assuming
I learned about choices and consequences and responsibility. I learned that we all have choices, even when we don't recognize them, and that those choices have consequences, not just for ourselves, but for others. We must assume responsibility for those consequences. John Sheridan
responsibility rights leader
It is a shame that so many leaders spend their time pondering their rights as leaders instead of their awesome responsibilities as leaders. James Hunter
responsibility home order
On top of the insult of destroying the geographic places we call home, the chain stores also destroyed people's place in the order of daily life, including the duties, responsibilities, obligations, and ceremonies that prompt citizens to care for each other. James Howard Kunstler
responsibility way blame
Blaming our behavior on forces outside ourselves is a way of avoiding responsibility. James Redfield
responsibility goal effort
The cast, staff, and crew of a live theater work together toward a common goal: a good performance. Thus, theater is necessarily a group effort. However, it is never a group effort of vague fellow committee members, but of associated autocrats-a playwright, a producer, a director, a stage manager, designers, and, above all, actors. Each accommodates the others, and may overlap others in function when necessary. But each autocrat assumes distinct responsibilities and accepts them completely. Laurence Sterne
responsibility understanding actors
I knew you had to go in and audition and maybe they'd hire you, and that's where you start. I had a good understanding about press: that it's the actor's responsibility to publicize his or her films. Laura Dern
responsibility together spirit
I can be the mayor; I can do it right now. I can go in there right now and put things together. I was truly anointed for that position and I wasn't mature enough in my spirit, in my manhood to handle that responsibility at the time it was given to me. Kwame Kilpatrick
responsibility choices risk
The economic freedom which is the prerequisite of any other freedom cannot be the freedom from economic care which the socialist promise us, and which can be obtained only by relieving the individual at the same time of the necessity and of the power of choice: it must be the freedom of economic activity which, with the right of choice, inevitably also carries the risk and the responsibility of that right Friedrich August von Hayek
responsibility men order
It used to be the boast of free men that, so long as they kept within the bounds of the known law, there was no need to ask anybody's permission or to obey anybody's orders. It is doubtful whether any of us can make this claim today.
responsibility people temptation
To undertake the direction of the economic life of people with widely divergent ideals and values is to assume responsibilities which commit one to the use of force; it is to assume a position where the best intentions cannot prevent one from being forced to act in a way which to some of those affected must appear highly immoral. This is true even if we assume the dominant power to be as idealistic and unselfish as we can possibly conceive. But how small is the likelihood that it will be unselfish, and how great are the temptations!
responsibility liberty inseparable
Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.
responsibility power framework
In a democratic nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good. Franklin D. Roosevelt
responsibility power-and-responsibility great-power
Great power involves great responsibility
responsibility decision winner
Nobody can do everything well, so learn how to delegate responsibility to other winners and then hold them accountable for their decisions. George Foreman
responsibility listening body
No one can listen to your body for you... To grow and heal, you have to take responsibility for listening to it yourself. Jon Kabat-Zinn
responsibility ozone-layer effort
Do you really want to know why I'm doing all this goodwill, and why I'm an ambassador for Habitat for Humanity and why I gave a million to [relief efforts for Hurricane] Katrina? It's because I feel guilty about the huge hole in the ozone layer my haircuts created. It's my responsibility to right the wrongs of the Eighties. Jon Bon Jovi
responsibility thinking faces
True, we must dare look things in the face before we dare think, speak, act, or assume responsibility. If we dare not even look, what else are we good for? Lu Xun
responsibility eight pms
It’s a responsibility that I take most seriously, so excuse me for banning you from killing them because you have reverse PMS. (Acheron) Reverse PMS? (Artemis) Yeah, unlike a normal woman, you’re cranky twenty-eight days out of the month. (Acheron) Sherrilyn Kenyon