Quotes about Responsibility

The absence of men in the household has caused people to not know how to respond to authority with respect. There's a major problem with the patriarchs having been chased out of the house.

I believe you mother everybody, not in a cloying, hovering way, but taking care of what is around you.

You would think none of my brothers have jobs with how much time they spend on the phone with our mom.

I've never directed, but it must be humbling.

Can you explain away love too?' I asked. 'Oh yes,' he said. 'The desire to possess in some, like avarice: in others the desire to surrender, to lose the sense of responsibility, the wish to be admired. Sometimes just the wish to be able to talk, to unburden yourself to someone who won't be bored. The desire to find again a father or a mother. And of course under it all the biological motive.

We praise heroes as though they are rare, and yet we are always ready to blame another man for lack of heroism.

What's the good? he'll always be innocent, you can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.

You can be certain of what you've done, you can judge death, but to save a man — that takes more than six years of training, and in the end you can never be quite sure that it was you who saved him.

Why don't you go back to your wife, then? ' ' It's not easy to live with someone you've injured.

we handed him back his province and left our allies to be crucified and sawn in two. They were innocent. They thought we'd stay. But we were liberals and we didn't want a bad conscience.

You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless.

Billy Graham once said, "We are the Bibles the world is reading. We are the creeds the world is needing. We are the sermons the world is heeding.