Quotes about responsibility
responsibility differences safety
The moral difference between a soldier and a civilian is that the soldier accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the body politic of which he is a member. The civilian does not. Robert A. Heinlein
responsibility race hiv
There's not any religion or any culture or any race or any generation that cannot get AIDS or HIV. We all have to take responsibility for ourselves and get tested to know our status, and spread the word. Rihanna
responsibility weight moments
There are none among us who have not been, even for a moment, cruel to those whom we love most, as if unable, in that moment, to shoulder any longer the magnificent weight and burden, the responsibility, of that love. Rick Bass
responsibility golf discipline
Golf is a great way for someone to learn discipline, responsibility and sportsmanship.? Tiger Woods
responsibility self skills
Autonomy... is freedom to develop one's self - to increase one's knowledge, improve one's skills, and achieve responsibility for one's conduct. And it is freedom to lead one's own life, to choose among alternative courses of action so long as no injury to others results. Thomas Szasz
responsibility thinking needs
I think we need to take responsibility for the things we put on this planet, and also take responsibility for the things we take off the planet. We need to have limiters on how far we allow ourselves to go - ethical, moral limiters. Steven Spielberg
responsibility moral sin
There is nothing like a naturalistic orientation to dispel all these morbid thoughts of "sin" and "free will" and "moral responsibility. Raymond Smullyan
responsibility want
Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It's not having no responsibilitie s; it's choosing the ones you want. Toni Morrison
responsibility leader taking-responsibility
Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.
responsibility hands bird
I don't know whether the bird you are holding is dead or alive, but what I do know is that it is in your hands. It is in your hands.
responsibility stories concerned
My responsibility is to get the story right. I can't predict or be concerned with the consequences. Tom Verducci
responsibility play ideas
When people discuss his plays, he says that he feels like he's standing at customs watching an official ransack his luggage. He cheerfully declares responsibility for a play about two people, and suddenly the officer is finding all manner of exotic contraband like the nature of God and identity, and while he can't deny that they're there, he can't for the life of him remember putting them there. In the end, a play is not the product of an idea; an idea is the product of a play. Tom Stoppard
responsibility house age
The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.
responsibility intelligent people
Religions have a special responsibility to encourage and inspire people to love planet earth, which as far as we know, is the only place in the cosmos that works in such a harmonious way that it can support intelligent life. Thomas Keating
responsibility thinking digital
We have to start thinking of ourselves as citizens of the Internet, not just passive users. I don’t see how we can bring about change in our digital lives if we don’t take responsibility. Rebecca MacKinnon
responsibility medicine suffering
Without ducking responsibility, what's wrong with medicine today is that it is predicated on providing treatment, not on reducing suffering. Not on solving problems. Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
responsibility abuse weak
Regulators are a backstop: they don't own banks. The governance at the top of our leading banks has been shown to be lamentably weak. No one at the top of Barclays will take responsibility for systemic abuse. Vince Cable
responsibility government law
So if Arizona sees the federal government isn't assuming its responsibilities, it creates local laws. But migration and keeping security on the borders is not a local or state issue, it's a federal issue. Vicente Fox
responsibility army fighting
The army should go back to their assigned duties, and police should take the responsibility of fighting the cartels.
responsibility giving forever
You are where you are today because you stand on somebody's shoulders. And wherever you are heading, you cannot get there by yourself. If you stand on the shoulders of others, you have a reciprocal responsibility to live your life so that others may stand on your shoulders. It's the quid pro quo of life. We exist temporarily through what we take, but we live forever through what we give Vernon Jordan
responsibility choices way
The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, 'I've got responsibilities. Richard Bach
responsibility faults victim
If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.
responsibility thinking wrinkles
The sister's face Fell all in wrinkles of responsibility. She wanted to do right. She'd have to think. Robert Frost
responsibility thinking accountability
I do think women avoid power. Power assumes responsibility and accountability, and I think many, many women want to have it both ways. Rita Mae Brown
responsibility law important
The single most important aspect of the Transition involves the selection of personnel to manage the transfer of responsibility. The law provides roughly ten weeks to accomplish this process. Richard V. Allen
responsibility giving want
It is our responsibility to learn how to speak to an audience that is less informed about music, to give it a reason to want to come and see us instead of going to the movies. Renee Fleming
responsibility mind awareness
I hold we cannot be said to be aware of our minds save under responsibility. Thornton Wilder
responsibility choices determined
I'm not sure I understand how responsibility for our choices makes sense if they are not determined. Thomas Nagel
responsibility government people
The essential psychological requirement of a free society is the willingness on the part of the individual to accept responsibility for his life. - Edith Packer When the government fears the people, it is liberty. When the people fear the government, it is tyranny. Thomas Paine
responsibility law outcomes
Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome. Thomas E. Mann
responsibility brain machines
The brain is not a blind, reactive machine, but a complex, sensitive biocomputer that we can program. And if we don't take the responsibility for programming it, then it will be programmed unwittingly by accident or by the social environnement. Timothy Leary
responsibility taking-responsibility passengers
The passengers were on my aircraft, and I have to take responsibility for that. Tony Fernandes
responsibility trying telling-the-truth
My responsibility to myself, my neighbors, my family and the human family is to try to tell the truth. Toni Cade Bambara