Responsible Quotes - Page 17

• We may find it convenient to live with the illusion that circumstances or other people are responsible for the quality of our lives, but the reality is that we are responsible-response-able-for our choices.

  Stephen Covey

  Reality, People, Choices

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1997). “First Things First Every Day: Daily Reflections- Because Where You're Headed Is More Important Than How Fast You Get There”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• I do finish reading a script and say, Why are they making it and what are they talking about? I like to try and be responsible in my choices in that way.

  Jennifer Connelly

  Reading, Talking, Choices

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• With the socialization of the health care system through institutions such as Medicaid and Medicare and the regulation of the insurance industry (by restricting an insurer’s right of refusal: to exclude any individual risk as uninsurable, and discriminate freely, according to actuarial methods, between different group risks) a monstrous machinery of wealth and income redistribution at the expense of responsible individuals and low-risk groups in favor of irresponsible actors and high-risk groups has been put in motion.

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe

  Risk, Groups, Different

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe (2011). “DemocracyThe God That Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy, and Natural Order”, p.196, Transaction Publishers

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• You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible.

  Thomas Sowell

  People, Irresponsibility

  Thomas Sowell (1993). “Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• The welfare state inhibits the maturation of its young citizens into responsible adults

  Dennis Prager

  Adults, Citizens, Welfare

  Dennis Prager (2012). “Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph”, p.42, Harper Collins

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• I don't think the government (of El Salvador) was responsible. The nuns were not just nuns; the nuns were political activists. We ought to be a little more clear-cut about this than we usually are. They were political activists on behalf of the Frente and somebody who is using violence to oppose the Frente killed them.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Cutting, Thinking, Government

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• Weak people never admit that they are responsible for their own state. They always blame either circumstances or others.

  Amish Tripathi

  People, Blame, Weak

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• Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.

  Abe Fortas

  Essentials, Stories, Journalism

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• You are fully responsible for everything you are, everything you have and everything you become.

  Brian Tracy

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Universal Laws of Success”, p.10, Jaico Publishing House

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• Jews are responsible for the majority of the wickedness in the world.

  Professor Griff

  Majority, Wickedness, World

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• If someone is responsible, it's me.

  Fidel Castro

  Ifs

  "Fidel Castro takes blame for persecution of Cuban gays". www.bbc.com. August 31, 2010.

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• I'm not responsible for my photographs. Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience. It's drowning yourself, dissolving yourself, and then sniff, sniff, sniff - being sensitive to coincidence. You can't go looking for it; you can't want it, or you won't get it. First you must lose your self. Then it happens.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Self, Intuition

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• You've got to struggle against the pollution of intelligence in order to become an animal with very sharp instincts - a sort of intuitive medium - so that to photograph becomes a magical act, and slowly other more suggestive images begin to appear behind the visible image, for which the photographer cannot be held responsible.

  Robert Doisneau

  Photography, Struggle, Animal

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• People who commit crimes should be responsible for those crimes. It doesn't matter whether they're priests or ministers or atheists.

  John Ashcroft

  Atheist, People, Atheism

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• The Cross is not responsible for God's love; rather it was His love that conceived the Cross.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  His Love, Crosses, God's Love

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• Moreover, I want us to urge political and religious leaders, and all peoples of the world, to move forward in a conciliatory spirit, to deal with religious matters in a responsible and balanced way, and to focus on their common grounds.

  Alcee Hastings

  Religious, Moving, Political

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• I'm pro responsible choice. You know, there is choice to abstain, choice to do contraception. There are all kinds of good choices

  Sharron Angle

  Choices, Kind, Contraception

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• Prince Asaka had joined the army only about ten days before its entry into Nanking and in view of the short time he was connected with this army I do not think he can be held responsible. I would say that the Division Commanders are the responsible parties.

  Iwane Matsui

  Party, Army, Thinking

  "Nanking: Anatomy of an Atrocity". Book by Masahiro Yamamoto, History, p. 232, 2000.

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• God grants us the faculty to open ourselves to peace. If we don't then we are responsible if wars continue.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  War, Faculty, Grants

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• One's own karma, one's own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Karma, Action

  "Interview With Maharishi Mahesh Yogi". "Larry King Weekend" with Larry King, transcripts.cnn.com. May 12, 2002.

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• An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist

  Stephen Stills

  Art, Giving Up, People

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• I accept the responsibility but not the blame. Let me explain the difference. Those who are to blame lose their jobs. Those who are responsible do not.

  David Frye

  Jobs, Responsibility, Differences

  "Richard Nixon: A Fantasy". Album by David Frye, 1973.

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• The people are responsible for the character of their Congress.

  James A. Garfield

  Character, People, Voting

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2”, p.486, Best Books on

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• There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away. The British people can face peril or misfortune with fortitude and buoyancy, but they bitterly resent being deceived or finding that those responsible for their affairs are themselves dwelling in a fool's paradise.

  Winston Churchill

  Mistake, Dwelling, People

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Hinge of Fate”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Religion is responsible for a lot of the problems in the history of the world and it's not something that I practice or recommend, but to each his own.

  Salman Rushdie

  Inspirational, Life, Practice

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