#responsibility

We're not responsible, he thought. This planet is a temporary affair. It's whizzing with all kinds of other ones, a whole range of planetary stuff, toward a star in the Milky Way. On that kind of a planet we're not responsible, he thought. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

#science #universe #science

God's command to have dominion over every living thing is a call to service, a test of responsibility, a rule of love, a cooperation with nature, whereas Satan's use of force for the sake of getting gain renders the earth uninhabitable. Brigham Young's views on the environment direct attention to man's responsibility to beautify the earth, to eradicate the influences of harmful substances, and to use restraint, that the earth may return to its paradisiacal glory. ↗

— Hugh Nibley

#environment #nature #paradise #responsibility #love

I'm convinced that responsibility is some kind of psychological disease. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#humor #mental #responsibility #humor

Stand in your own two shoes. ↗

— T. Scott McLeod

#empowering-beliefs #empowerment #responsibility #self-responsibility #self-belief

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#justice #personal-responsibility #responsibility #life

In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it. ↗

— Barack Obama

#change #civic-responsibility #patriotism #trial #change

Those of us who have seen violent death up close, who have seen what high-powered bullets can do to living human tissue, have a horror of inflicting that nightmarish, never forgotten damage on a fellow human being. Perhaps the only more terrifying prospect is that such a fate should befall us or our loved ones. This is why we, a representative cross-section of America's population, keep deadly weapons for personal defense. ↗

— Massad Ayoob

#lethal-force #regret #responsibility #death

Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving, you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead. ↗

— Louise Penny

#responsibility #change

The only way we can change our world is to take responsibility for our part in it. ↗

— Rachael Bermingham

#inspirational-quotes #motivational-quotes #responsibility #change

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#choices #expressed #make #makes #our