Quotes about Responsibility
Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is agreement and a tradition upon which to build.
— Frank Herbert
It is another kind of marriage—the marriage of privilege and duty. It is the aristocrat's explanation and his excuse.
— Frank Herbert
Membership in a conspiracy, as in an army, frees people from the sense of personal responsibility.
— Frank Herbert
Militant missionary religions can share this illusion of the proud past, ' but few understand the ultimate peril to humankind-that false sense of freedom from responsibility for your own actions.
— Frank Herbert
We should grant power over our affairs only to those reluctant to hold it, and only under conditions that increase that reluctance.
— Frank Herbert
The problem with leadership is that leaders are human beings. And when they make mistakes, their mistakes are amplified by the numbers who follow without question.
— Frank Herbert
A bad administrator is more concerned with reports than with decisions. He wants the hard record which he can display as an excuse for his errors." "And good administrators?
— Frank Herbert
Who shall guard the guardians? Who shall see that the guardians commit no offenses?
— Frank Herbert
It requires good government. That does not depend upon laws or precedent, but upon the personal qualities of whoever governs.
— Frank Herbert
Indeed? Pardon me for not listening further but I am really on an urgent errand.
— Frank Herbert
Good administrators make immediate choices." "Acceptable choices?" "They usually can be made to work. A bad administrator, on the other hand, hesitates, diddles around, asks for committees, for research and reports. Eventually, he acts in ways which create serious problems.
— Frank Herbert
Command must always look confident, he thought. All that faith riding on your shoulders while you sit in the critical seat and never show it.
— Frank Herbert