Irresponsible Quotes - Page 9

• We think there is an ecological problem, but the real problem is irresponsible growth of human population.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Real

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• You know something I could really do without? The Space Shuttle. ... It's irresponsible. The last thing we should be doing is sending our grotesquely distorted DNA out into space.

  George Carlin

  Science, Dna, Space

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• All nations that have nuclear weapons think that they are responsible and it is the other guys who are irresponsible.

  Joseph Cirincione

  Thinking, Guy, Nuclear

  "Israel's 'bomb in the basement'" by John Vause, www.cnn.com. April 21, 2004.

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• I think it's unconscionable for a Senator from Massachusetts to come down here and tell the people of Florida what's right for them. It's arrogant and irresponsible.

  Jeff Miller

  Thinking, Florida, People

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• I want to get out in the community and make sure everyone knows I'm not some renegade driver that's out there and irresponsible and reckless. I really think this is just a one-time thing. You live and learn. If you do the crime, you do the time, so to speak. With that said, I got a lot going for me. I got a great job, a great career, a great family. This is just a little bump in the road. My spirit's not broke. I'm not down and out by any means.

  Jayson Werth

  Jobs, Mean, Thinking

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• Naturally, Coach Hedge went ballistic; but Percy found it hard to take the satyr seriously since he was barely five feet tall. "Never in my life!" Coach bellowed, waving his bat and knocking over a plate of apples. "Against the rules! Irresponsible!" "Coach," Annabeth said, "it was an accident. We were talking, and we fell asleep." "Besides," Percy said, "you're starting to sound like Terminus." Hedge narrowed his eyes. "Is that an insult, Jackson? 'Cause I'll—I'll terminus you, buddy!

  Rick Riordan

  Eye, Talking, Apples

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• The irresponsible mother helped explain bella's maturity. She'd had to grow up early, to become the caretaker. That's why she didn't like being cared for- she felt it was her job.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Mother, Jobs, Growing Up

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• So," I (Percy) said glumly. "We're going to get a ride from your brother, huh?" Artemis's silver eyes gleamed. "Yes, boy. You see, Bianca di Angelo is not the only one with an annoying brother. It's time for you to meet my irresponsible twin, Apollo.

  Rick Riordan

  Brother, Eye, Boys

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• You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But I also think it's irresponsible to simply be a nihilist, which quite a lot of playwrights, especially playwrights younger than me, have become guilty of.

  Tony Kushner

  Thinking, Giving, Guilty

  Interview with Andrea Bernstein, www.motherjones.com. July/August 1995.

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• Every high C accurately struck demolishes the theory that we are the irresponsible puppets of fate or chance.

  W. H. Auden

  Fate, Puppets, Chance

  "Notes on Music and Opera". Essay by W. H. Auden, published in his book "The Dyer's Hand" (p. 471), 1963.

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• For average working folks, America was becoming a puzzle. Who was buying all these two-hundred-dollar copper saucepans, anyway? And how was everyone paying for these BMWs? Were people shrewd or just stupefyingly irresponsible?

  Daniel Suarez

  Average, Bmw, Two

  Daniel Suarez (2009). “Daemon”, p.5, Penguin

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• I want to say to each of you, simply, and directly, I am deeply sorry for my irresponsible and selfish behavior I engaged in.

  Tiger Woods

  Sorry, Selfish, Apology

  "Tiger Woods Mea Culpa, Media Reaction Examined". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. February 19, 2010.

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• ...nuclear threats and nuclear weapons are the last argument of weak, stressed and irresponsible politicians. People must act very quicky to stop the movement to nuclear war.

  Alla Yaroshinskaya

  War, People, Stressed

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• The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use; of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

  John F. Kennedy

  Trust, Men, Power

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• If teaching has any purpose, it is to implant true insight and responsibility. Education must lead us from irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgement. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order.

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  Teaching, Responsibility, Order

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• Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

  George Washington

  Peace, War, Government

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• It is easy to understand why the cat has eclipsed the dog as modern America's favorite pet. People like pets to possess the same qualities they do. Cats are irresponsible and recognize no authority, yet are completely dependent on others for their material needs. Cats cannot be made to do anything useful. Cats are mean for the fun of it. In fact, cats possess so many of the same qualities as people that it is often hard to tell the people and the cats apart.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Dog, Fun, Mean

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.215, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.

  Alexander Berkman

  Peace, War, Stupid

  Alexander Berkman (2010). “Now and After: the ABC of Anarchist Communism”, p.30, Lulu.com

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• The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error. But science is one of the very few human activities-perhaps the only one-in which errors are systematically criticized and fairly often, in time, corrected. This is why we can say that, in science, we often learn from our mistakes, and why we can speak clearly and sensibly about making progress there. In most other fields of human endeavour there is change, but rarely progress ... And in most fields we do not even know how to evaluate change.

  Karl Popper

  Dream, Mistake, Learning

  1960 Conjectures and Refutations (published1963), ch.10.

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• The Bush administration continues to coddle China, despite its continuing crackdown on democratic reform, its brutal subjugation of Tibet, its irresponsible export of nuclear and missile technology... Such forbearance on our part might have made sense during the Cold War when China was the counterweight to Soviet power. It makes no sense to play the China card now when our opponents have thrown in their hand.

  William J. Clinton

  War, Technology, Hands

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• The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.

  Larry Elder

  War, Stupid, People

  Larry Elder (2001). “The Ten Things You Can't Say In America”, p.253, Macmillan

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• We must wake up to the insane reality of our time. We are all irresponsible, unless we demand from the responsible decision makers that modern armaments must no longer be made available to people whose former battle axes and swords our ancestors condemned.

  Thor Heyerdahl

  Reality, Axes, People

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• God gave us the gift of life. It is the most precious gift ever. To be unarmed is to be helpless to protect that gift; that is outright irresponsible.

  Ted Nugent

  Precious Gifts, Protect, Gifts Of Life

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• Not to dream more boldly may turn out to be, in view of present realities, simply irresponsible.

  George Leonard

  Dream, Reality, Views

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• I'd like to put the record straight about that. I've been labelled an irresponsible role model for young mothers, but none of it is true. I couldn't even walk for two weeks after the birth, let alone exercise. I ate very healthily all the way through my pregnancy and afterwards. I didn't do anything extreme.

  Anna Friel

  Mother, Pregnancy, Exercise

  "Anna Friel: I'm up for a nip/tuck - it can knock 10 years off you". Mirror.Co.Uk Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. April 20, 2008.

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