Quotes about Responsibility

Although it may be evident enough in theory that whoever plays a finite game plays freely, it is often the case that finite players will be unaware of this absolute freedom and will come to think that whatever they do they must do.

We stand before genius in silence. We cannot speak it, we can only speak as it. Yet, though I speak as genius, I cannot speak for genius. I cannot give nature a voice in my script. I can not give others a voice in my script-without denying their own source, their originality. To do so is to cease responding to the other, to cease being responsible. No one and nothing belong in my script.

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Now, don't you worry, Mr. Appledore. I'm thinkin' the best thing I can do is to trundle the old lady down to my mother and take her out of your way, otherwise you might be findin' your Christian feelings gettin' the better of you some fine day, and there's nothin' like Christian feelin's for upsettin' a man's domestic comfort.

As the Head of a woman's college she must, thought Harriet, have had a distasteful task; for she looked as though the word 'compromise' had been omitted from her vocabulary; and all statesmanship is compromise.

This, she felt, was her fault. Her idea in the first place. Her house. Her honeymoon. Her — and this was the incalculable factor in the thing — her husband. (A repressive word, that, when you came to think of it, compounded of a grumble and a thump.) The

Forgiveness does not wipe away the consequences of the sin. The consequences are borne by somebody.

Evil wishes, like chickens, come home to roost.

Children are not to be blamed for the faults of their parents.

Every man should be content to mind his own business.

The loiterer often imputes delay to his more active friend.

Do nothing without regard to the consequences.