If we are worried about the future, then we must look today at the upbringing of children.
Gordon B. HinckleyTags: future children worry responsibility
Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.
Joan DidionTags: life self-respect responsibility character
Our whole social order could self-destruct over the obsession with freedom disconnected from responsibility; where choice is imagined to be somehow independent of consequences.
Boyd K. PackerTags: responsibility
What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also means that we are free to change this destiny. One is not in bondage to the past, which has shaped our feelings, to race, inheritance, background. All this can be altered if we have the courage to examine how it formed us. We can alter the chemistry provided we have the courage to dissect the elements.
Anaïs NinTags: empowerment self-control courage responsibility character destiny self-improvement
If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?
Warren EllisTags: thinking media television responsibility influence representations
Rwanda will never ever leave me. It's in the pores of my body. My soul is in those hills, my spirit is with the spirits of all those people who were slaughtered and killed that I know of, and many that I didn't know. … Fifty to sixty thousand people walking in the rain and the mud to escape being killed, and seeing a person there beside the road dying. We saw lots of them dying. And lots of those eyes still haunt me, angry eyes or innocent eyes, no laughing eyes. But the worst eyes that haunt me are the eyes of those people who were totally bewildered. They're looking at me with my blue beret and they're saying, "What in the hell happened? We were moving towards peace. You were there as the guarantor" -- their interpretation -- "of the mandate. How come I'm dying here?" Those eyes dominated and they're absolutely right. How come I failed? How come my mission failed? How come as the commander who has the total responsibility-- We learn that, it's ingrained in us, because when we take responsibility it means the responsibility of life and death, of humans that we love.
Roméo DallaireTags: responsibility failure rwanda
Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.
[News conference, April 21 1961]
Tags: victory responsibility leadership defeat
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard ShawTags: liberty dread responsibility
To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is."
[The Title Always Comes Last; NEH 2003 Jefferson Lecturer interview profile]
Tags: life civic-duty civic-responsibility history humanity mankind responsibility
What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
Ursula K. Le GuinTags: choice anarchy responsibility
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