Irresponsible Quotes - Page 12

• I get tested for HIV twice a year.... One has to be socially aware. It's part of being a decent human to be tested for STDs. It's just disgusting behaviour when people don't. It's so irresponsible.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Years, People, Hiv

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• Zombies don't run. They don't dance. They don't say, "More brains." There is no Thriller Night. Those are stereotypes that are perpetrated by Hollywood, which I think is very irresponsible because it can get you killed.

  Max Brooks

  Running, Thinking, Night

  "'I’m Just A Zombie Nerd' The Max Brooks Interview". Interview with Allie Townsend, techland.time.com. July 15, 2010.

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• The thing about tourism is just that it's incredibly powerful. It's like a gun and it's incredibly easy to be irresponsible with it. And the speed of the impact that tourism can have on a place can be quite breathtaking. It doesn't take years, it takes months. That's how quickly it works. And it can be quite a bleak thing to witness.

  Alex Garland

  Powerful, Gun, Years

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• The programme of the British Labour Party under Neil Kinnock is so wildly irresponsible, so separate and apart from the historic NATO strategy, that I think a Labour government that stood by its present policies - and I rather doubt that they would - would, if it didn't destroy the Alliance, at least diminish its effective ability to do the task for which it was created.

  Richard Perle

  Party, Thinking, Government

  The Times, September 25, 1986.

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• Rationally considered, nothing can be more absurd than the baptism of infants under any circumstances. No statement, no matter by whom it may be said to have been uttered, can make that true which is radically false. If an innocent child, unconscious of good or evil, irresponsible to God and man, incapable of thought or action, is not already, in accordance with Christian theology, a member of Christ, then no vicarious promise or priestly ablution can make him one. For if this were so, a similar ceremony under devil worship could make him a member of Satan.

  Tennessee Celeste Claflin

  Christian, Children, Men

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• The master's irresponsible power has no such bound.

  Fanny Kemble

  Masters, Bounds

  Fanny Kemble (1863). “Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839”, p.125

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• I find it irresponsible to go, 'She's an actress, what does she know?' That means if you're a dentist, what do you know? If you're a lawyer, what do you know? It's our profession, it's what we do. It's not who we are.

  Eva Longoria

  Mean, Doe, Who We Are

  "Eva Longoria: There'll be 'no empty chairs' in my DNC speech" by Scott Stump, www.today.com. November 02, 2015.

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• Adolescence is a relatively recent thing in human history -- a period of years between the constraints of childhood and the responsibilities of adulthood. This irresponsible period of adolescence is artificially extended by long years of education, much of it wasted on frivolities. Tenure extends adolescence even further for teachers and professors.

  Thomas Sowell

  Teacher, Responsibility, Years

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• In the learned journal, in the influential newspaper, I discern no form; only some irresponsible shadow; oftener some monied corporation, or some dangler, who hopes, in the mask and robes of his paragraph, to pass for somebody. But through every clause and part of speech of the right book I meet the eyes of the most determined men; his force and terror inundate every word: the commas and dashes are alive; so that the writing is athletic and nimble,--can go far and live long.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Writing, Eye

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• I perfectly understand the particular attention which you pay to the question of nuclear energy, and fully realize the possible dangers and catastrophes which might result for mankind from an irresponsible attitude. In this field my wish is for Iran to put all her efforts towards the peaceful use of atomic energy. We shall continue to co-operate with all the nations of the world to attain this end in the interests of human society.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Attitude, Iran, Effort

  Message to the White House in April 1977. "The Shah's Story". Book by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, pp. 67-68, 1980.

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• It is remarkable, all that men can swallow. For a good ten minutes I read a newspaper. I allowed the spirit of an irresponsible man who chews and munches another's words in his mouth, and gives them out again undigested, to enter into me through my eyes.

  Hermann Hesse

  Eye, Men, Giving

  Hermann Hesse (1983). “Steppenwolf”, Bantam

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• In a culture that gives men irresponsible power and women powerless responsibility, the advancement of civilization cannot be a serious goal.

  Mary Blakely

  Responsibility, Men, Civilization

  Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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• The virtue of female slaves is wholly at the mercy of irresponsible tyrants, and women are bought and sold in our slave markets, to gratify the brutal lust of those who bear the name of Christians.

  Sarah Moore Grimke

  Christian, Tyrants, Names

  Sarah Moore Grimké, Mary S. Parker (1838). “Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman: Addressed to Mary S. Parker”, p.51

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• When I was young and irresponsible, I was young and irresponsible.

  George W. Bush

  Young

  George W. Bush (2014). “41: A Portrait of My Father”, p.71, Crown

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• Parents must begin to discover their children as individuals of developing tastes and views and so help them be, and see, themselves as thinking, feeling people. It is far too easy for a middle-years child to absorb an over-simplified picture of himself as a sloppy, unreliable, careless, irresponsible, lazy creature and not much more--an attitude toward himself he will carry far beyond these years.

  Dorothy H Cohen

  Attitude, Children, Thinking

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• In the newspapers there is insulting and stirring up hatred. Those irresponsible daubers!

  Joseph Goebbels

  Hatred, Insulting, Newspapers

  "Michael: a German fate in diary notes". Book by Joseph Goebbels, 1926.

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• The greatest menace to the world today is the growing, exploiting, irresponsible imperialism.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  World, Growing, Today

  Mahatma Gandhi (1949). “Communal Unity”

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• I try to attach myself to people who really inspire me, and directors who are really passionate. That way, I can give myself more fully and trust the impulse behind why the film is being made, and I can be a little more irresponsible in finding out what the character is.

  Willem Dafoe

  Character, People, Giving

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. September 25, 2007.

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• Lucas was fifteen minutes late to class on Friday, and we had a pop quiz first thing - which he missed. My first thought was how irresponsible it was to miss a quiz… and then I remembered that I missed the midterm. I couldn't exactly point any fingers.

  Tammara Webber

  Friday, Class, Missing

  "Easy". Book by Tammara Webber, May, 2012.

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• I believe in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to the point of responsibility. I don`t believe in giving authority and positions of leadership and judgment to irresponsible people.

  John Wayne

  Believe, Responsibility, White

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• Influence is a very unpleasant subject and I deal with it in a maybe irresponsible way, which is to really ignore it. It would be a nightmare if we started to really think about it; it would tie our hands, it would tie everyone elses hands.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Thinking, Hands, Ties

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• Sarah Palin said perhaps the most irresponsible thing I've ever heard any politician say. She said, 'The only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.' You think she realizes that nuking Russia might not be good for someone who can see Russia from her house?

  Bill Maher

  Thinking, Russia, House

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• Occasionally we are asked whether it would make sense to modify our investment strategy to perform better in today's financial climate. Our answer, as you might guess, is: No! It would be easyfor us to capitulate to the runaway bull market in growth and technology stocks. And foolhardy. And irresponsible. And unconscionable. It is always easiest to run with the herd; at times, it can take a deep reservoir of courage and conviction to stand apart from it. Yet distancing yourself from the crowd is an essential component of long-term investment success.

  Seth Klarman

  Running, Technology, Investment Success

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• Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Country, Mind, Moral

  NEA Journal: The Journal of the National Education Association‎, Volume 41 (p. 300), 1952.

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• Short of baseball and my family, it was gaming. And gaming is a $20-million to $200-million multi-year effort. It's an insane, stupid and utterly irresponsible act. But I did it.

  Curt Schilling

  Baseball, Stupid, Years

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