Responsible Quotes - Page 31

• Choose the mountain you want to climb: don't pay attention to what other people say, such as "that one's more beautiful" or "this one's easier". You'll be spending lots of energy and enthusiasm to reach your objective, so you're the only one responsible and you should be sure of what you're doing.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Beautiful, Inspiration

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• I'm not responsible enough to have a dog - or a child.

  Boy George

  Dog, Children, Enough

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• I am certain, however, that those responsible for the murder of millions of Germans will never be brought to justice.

  Adolf Eichmann

  Justice, Murder, Certain

  "Why? New Eichmann Notes Try to Explain" by Roger Cohen, www.nytimes.com. August 13, 1999.

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• I wanted to be seen as a good person, and never wanted to let people down, but I found it hard to handle the fame or adulation. I didn't feel worthy of it. I was ashamed by who I thought I was because I felt partly responsible [for the abuse] and I was never able to enjoy the stuff I should have been able to enjoy. My first thought when I won the Tour was: 'My God, I'm going to be famous', and then I thought, 'He's going to call'. I was always waiting for that phone call. I lived in fear that anyone would ever find out.

  Greg LeMond

  Phones, Should Have, People

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• I felt that as an American citizen, as a responsible citizen, I could no longer cooperate in concealing this information from the American public. I did this clearly at my own jeopardy and I am prepared to answer to all the consequences of this decision.

  Daniel Ellsberg

  Decision, Citizens, Answers

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• People in every nation enhance the social dimension of their lives by acting as committed and responsible citizens.

  Pope Francis

  People, Acting, Citizens

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.63, BookBaby

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• The place of stillness that you have to go to to write, but also to read seriously, is the point where you can actually make responsible decisions, where you can actually engage productively with an otherwise scary and unmanageable world.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Writing, Decision, Scary

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• Students in the '60s were responsible for great changes, politically and socially.

  Tom Ford

  Students, Great Change

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• And it's important to remember we are all responsible - or certainly the elected members in Washington of both parties are responsible for making decisions and choices to ensure that the economy grows and jobs are created.

  Jay Carney

  Jobs, Party, Decision

  Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. August 2, 2011.

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• Let us be under no illusion. The Jewish spirit, which was responsible for the alliance of large-scale capital with Marxism and was the driving force behind so many anti-Spanish revolutionary agreements, will not be got rid of in a day.

  Francisco Franco

  Agreement, Alliances, Driving

  Victory speech in Madrid, May 19, 1939.

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• I couldn't see how we could seriously struggle without having a strong sense of collectivity, without being responsible FOR each other and TO each other.

  Assata Shakur

  Strong, Struggle, Collectivity

  Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.282, Zed Books

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• It’s as much a writer’s concern, who is responsible to his readers for all the books written before him as well as those which will be written after him.

  Ilya Ehrenburg

  Book, Reader, Concern

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• I will continue to work in Washington to oppose any efforts to expand drilling off our Coasts and to challenge my colleagues to adopt responsible energy policies.

  Lois Capps

  Effort, Challenges, Energy

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• Every man, woman, and responsible child has an unalienable individual, civil, Constitutional, and human right to obtain, own, and carry, openly or concealed, any weapon - rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun, anything - any time, any place, without asking anyone's permission.

  L. Neil Smith

  Children, Men, Rifles

  "The Atlanta Declaration". lneilsmith.org. September 1987.

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• If a politician isn't perfectly comfortable with the idea of his average constituent, any man, woman, or responsible child, walking into a hardware store and paying cash -- for any rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun, anything - without producing ID or signing one scrap of paper, he isn't your friend no matter what he tells you.

  L. Neil Smith

  Children, Men, Average

  "Why Did it Have to be ... Guns?". www.lneilsmith.org.

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• A lawyers performance in the courtroom is responsible for about 25 percent of the outcome; the remaining 75 percent depends on the facts.

  Melvin Belli

  Outcomes, Facts, Lawyer

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• I love being the bad guy, simply because I was always so responsible, so predictable growing up.

  Sandra Brown

  Growing Up, Love Is, Guy

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• I personally believe that the solar flares are more responsible for climatic cycles than anything that human beings do

  Jim Sensenbrenner

  Believe, Flare, Humans

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• Do the best you can. And remember that the greatest asset you have in this world is those children who you've brought into the world, and for whose nurture and care you're responsible.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Children, World, Care

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• It is a sexual violation. It’s disgusting. The law needs to be changed, and we need to change. That’s why these Web sites are responsible. Just the fact that somebody can be sexually exploited and violated, and the first thought that crosses somebody’s mind is to make a profit from it. It’s so beyond me. I just can’t imagine being that detached from humanity. I can’t imagine being that thoughtless and careless and so empty inside.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Law, Humanity, Mind

  "Cover Exclusive: Jennifer Lawrence Calls Photo Hacking a ‘Sex Crime’". www.vanityfair.com. October 7, 2014.

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• I think that religion stops people from thinking. I think it justifies crazies. I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder. If you look at it logically, it's something that was drilled into your head when you were a small child. It certainly was drilled into mine at that age. And you really can't be responsible when you are a kid for what adults put into your head.

  Bill Maher

  Children, Kids, Thinking

  "Scarborough Country" with Joe Scarborough, www.nbcnews.com. February 15, 2005.

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• Who stands firm? Only the one for whom the final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, his virtue, but who is ready to sacrifice all these, when in faith and sole allegiance to God he is called to obedient and responsible action: the responsible person, whose life will be nothing but an answer to God's question and call.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Sacrifice, Answers, Principles

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1966). “I Loved this People: Testimonies of Responsibility”, London : S.P.C.K.

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• If, as some savants of consciousness suggest, we are actually agreeing to create, from moment to moment, everything we perceive as real, then it stands to reason that we're also responsible for keeping it going in some harmonious manner.

  Phil Lesh

  Real, Consciousness, Moments

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• To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know

  Alexis Carrel

  Men, Given, Knows

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• Fame is a lot of pressure, especially when you're responsible for your entire family. Financially, emotionally - everything.

  Nick Carter

  Pressure, Fame

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