Responsibility Quotes - Page 18

• The terrifying breakdown of social cohesion in the American city, in spite of intense institutionalized police surveillance equipped with every sophisticated aid to public control, illustrates that social behaviour depends upon mutual responsibility rather than upon the policeman.

  Colin Ward

  Cities, Police, Surveillance

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• Inspectors do not have the duty or the ability to uncover terrible weapons hidden in a vast country. The responsibility of inspectors is simply to confirm evidence of voluntary and total disarmament. Saddam Hussein has the responsibility to provide that evidence, as directed, and in full

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Country, Hussein, Weapons

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• Move decisions out to the Cabinet and agencies. Strengthen them by moving responsibility, authority, and accountability their direction.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Moving, Agency, Decision

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• The best food storage is not in welfare grain elevators but in sealed cans and bottles in the homes of our people. What a gratifying thing it is to see cans of wheat and rice and beans under the beds or in the pantries of women who have taken welfare responsibility into their own hands. Such food may not be tasty, but it will be nourishing if it has to be used.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Taken, Home, Hands

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• I try to avoid people's eyes because I don't like to get that intimate with just anybody. i don't need the responsibility.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Eye, People, Trying

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• I think that people can get caught up in the "gee-whiz" technology of surveying, which is constantly changing, and forget about the legal aspects and the professional responsibility that surveyors bear - something that hasn't changed much at all in hundreds of years.

  Mark Mason

  Technology, Thinking, Years

  "Career Spotlight: What I Do as a Land Surveyor". Interview with Andy Orin, lifehacker.com. December 10, 2015.

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• Professional land surveyors take on a lot of responsibility, and should be compensated appropriately.

  Mark Mason

  Land, Should, Surveyors

  "Career Spotlight: What I Do as a Land Surveyor". Interview with Andy Orin, lifehacker.com. December 10, 2015.

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• I'm always excited to carry more and more weight and responsibility within a story. It's all about putting my time in and showing people that I'm good and responsible and, hopefully, kicking ass in every frame.

  Kevin Durand

  People, Kicking, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• Joe Lieberman was threatening censorship. What I'm arguing is that if the creative people in Hollywood themselves have a responsibility, have a moral responsibility in terms of smoking, not to show smoking in movies.

  Joe Eszterhas

  People, Smoking, Creative

  Interview with Dominic Bellone, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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• Most of the people in the workforce today will spend some years when they also have children and family responsibilities.

  Betty Friedan

  Children, Years, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My life is very complicated. I have a lot of things going on. I am juggling a lot of responsibilities. There is so much going on that it is astounding, it really is.

  Michael Jackson

  Life Is, Complicated, Juggling

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• Each restorational advancement of the Army of the Lord has established denominational forts that are given responsibility to maintain the purity and power of that truth... New recruits are now being drafted and trained and older soldiers and generals are being put through intensified training for the next advancement of the Church Army. They are being purified by the Baptism of Fire... Are you ready? Where do you start? What will you do? A new government must be established, a new way of life for those millions of people. You are now ready to rule and reign on your overcomer's throne!

  Bill Hamon

  Army, Fire, Government

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• I don't feel any kind of a responsibility (other than to myself) to write "weighty" lyrics. In fact I sometimes wish I could learn to write in a simpler form, to be more direct and I'm going to be experimenting with this.

  Stuart Adamson

  Writing, Wish, Facts

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• My responsibility in the past, when I was sleeping outside every night, was just to survive. My responsibility now is to stay real, stay grounded, and just tell the truth.

  Jimmy Wayne

  Real, Sleep, Past

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It really depends on what the screenplay is asking of you, and what your responsibility is to that character. You have the author's intent to deal with, you have the filmmaker's vision, and then you have your own wants, desires and needs for the character. It's collaborative. But I knew, right off the bat, that there was no way to go into some sort of pink-haired, clown-nosed character with Ronald McDonald shoes.

  Johnny Depp

  Character, Shoes, Mcdonalds

  "Johnny Depp, Director Wally Pfister and Writer Jack Paglen Talk TRANSCENDENCE, Artificial Intelligence, the Frankenstein Archetype, BLACK MASS, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 17, 2014.

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• There is a social responsibility to take care of vulnerable people. It seems that a sensible social responsibility is obligatory education, but also decent education, and that is not happening.

  Noam Chomsky

  People, Care, Vulnerable

  "Noam Chomsky: Drug Cartels and the Growing Border War". Interview with Luis Fernando Cárdenas, chomsky.info. August 15, 2011.

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• I'm concerned that young people, far too often, abdicate their responsibilities of learning and adapting and give that over to people who may not always have their best interests at heart.

  Len Elmore

  Heart, People, Giving

  Source: aalbc.com

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• We recognize that North Korea is in severe financial straits, and they have decided to use their resources to build their military, rather than to feed their people and to take care of the various humanitarian responsibilities that they have.

  Benjamin Carson

  Military, Korea, People

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• I still love my people, not just my family - my people. I feel a huge responsibility for them.

  Mosab Hassan Yousef

  People, My Family, Feels

  "Son of Hamas". GQ interview, www.gq.com. March 11, 2010.

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• If you get yourself out of politics, religion, everything, and think as a human, think based on love to everybody, at that moment you have a choice: to be an animal, or to be a human. I choose to be a human being, with conscience and responsibility.

  Mosab Hassan Yousef

  Animal, Thinking, Choices

  "Son of Hamas". GQ interview, www.gq.com. March 11, 2010.

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• People do not always take responsibility for their own spirituality and their own spiritual relationship with God.

  Echo Bodine

  Spiritual, People, Relationship With God

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Well, part of the thing is, like, what's the difference between censorship and social responsibility? I sometimes find that the whole censorship argument is used as a way for people to avoid the fact that they're like.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Differences, People, Way

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• Responsibility is something you take as a matter of fact, like breathing air; living without it is impossible, but do not think about it too much.

  Jacob Gelt Dekker

  Thinking, Air, Breathing

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• Why have we had such a decline in moral climate? I submit to you that a major factor has been a change in the philosophy which has been dominant, a change from belief in individual responsibility to belief in social responsibility. If you adopt the view that a man is not responsible for his own behavior, that somehow society is responsible, why should he seek to make his behavior good?

  Milton Friedman

  Philosophy, Men, Views

  Milton Friedman, William Richard Allen (1983). “Bright promises, dismal performance: an economist's protest”, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc.

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• As wonderful as they were, my parents didn't teach me anything about self-discipline, concentration, patience, or focus. If I hadn't had a family myself, I probably never would've done anything. Marriage taught me responsibility.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Self, Discipline, Focus

  "What I've Learned: Dick Van Dyke" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. February 20, 2007.

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