Quotes
Quotes about Responsibility
He mused on history and responsibility. Did it have some to us, or we to it? Whose history? There was a crass futlity in the big abstract monster, composite of unrecorded lives.
I've a sense of responsibility to literature, pretentious as that must sound
One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Heredity is a splendid phenomenon that relieves us of responsibility for our shortcomings.
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.
If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
If you load responsibility on a man unworthy of it he will always betray himself.
Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.
Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.
Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.
A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
The game is my life. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do --or don't do.
As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up to us.
To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.
This autonomy of man, this attempt of the Ego to understand itself out of itself, is the lie concerning man which we call sin. The truth about man is that his ground is not in himself but in Godâthat his essence is not in self sufficient reason but in the Word, in the challenge of God, in responsibility, not in self-sufficiency. The true being of man is realized when he bases himself upon God's Word. Faith is then not an impossibility or a salto mortale [mortal leap], but that which is truly natural; and the real salto mortale (a mortal leap indeed!) is just the assertion of autonomy, self-sufficiency, God-likeness. [It is] through this usurped independence [that] man separates himself from God, and at the same time isolates himself from his fellows. Individualism is the necessary consequence of rational autonomy, just as love is the necessary consequence of faith.
This is great literature and great religious literature, this collection of ancient writings we call the Bible, and any translator has a deep sense of responsibility as he undertakes to transmit it to modern readers. He desires his transcript to be faithful to the meaning of the original, so far as he can reach that meaning, and also to do some justice to its literary qualities. But he is well aware that his aim often exceeds his grasp. Translation may be a fascinating task, yet no discipline is more humbling. You may be translating oracles, but soon you learn the risk and folly of posing as an oracle yourself. If your readers are dissatisfied at any point, they may be sure that the translator is still more dissatisfied, if not there, then elsewhereâall the more so, because, in the nature of the case, he has always to appear dogmatic in print.
Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936 Evil can be interpreted as guilt only where human existence is understood as personal, and that means where the existence of man is understood to be in responsibility to the Divine Thou. This is the depth of human distress, that we are separated from God, that our communion with Him is destroyed, that man has emancipated himself (has taken himself out of the hand of God) and has become independent, his own master.
Alexander the Great Alexander the Great Butcher .. how much responsibility does Aristotle his teacher have?
