#responsibility

What we try to say is that it doesn't matter if you are a Republican or a Democrat or conservative or independent. You are equally responsible for your place in the culture, and you must make a contribution, and you must accept responsibility for what goes down on your watch. ↗

— Martin Sheen

#conservative #contribution #culture #democrat #down

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top. ↗

— O. J. Simpson

#complete #day #excuses #making #responsibility

Any problems that may occur have ultimately been caused by you, because you are responsible for where you are and what you are doing there. ↗

— Garth Stein

#life #problems #responsibility #truth #art

Between an uncontrolled escalation and passivity, there is a demanding road of responsibility that we must follow. ↗

— Dominique de Villepin

#demanding #escalation #follow #must #passivity

After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper. ↗

— Gary Webb

#am #angeles #central #cities #convinced

Rwanda will never ever leave me. It's in the pores of my body. My soul is in those hills, my spirit is with the spirits of all those people who were slaughtered and killed that I know of, and many that I didn't know. … Fifty to sixty thousand people walking in the rain and the mud to escape being killed, and seeing a person there beside the road dying. We saw lots of them dying. And lots of those eyes still haunt me, angry eyes or innocent eyes, no laughing eyes. But the worst eyes that haunt me are the eyes of those people who were totally bewildered. They're looking at me with my blue beret and they're saying, "What in the hell happened? We were moving towards peace. You were there as the guarantor" -- their interpretation -- "of the mandate. How come I'm dying here?" Those eyes dominated and they're absolutely right. How come I failed? How come my mission failed? How come as the commander who has the total responsibility-- We learn that, it's ingrained in us, because when we take responsibility it means the responsibility of life and death, of humans that we love. ↗

— Roméo Dallaire

#responsibility #rwanda #death

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

#elections #government #political-science #politics-observation #politics-science

What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also means that we are free to change this destiny. One is not in bondage to the past, which has shaped our feelings, to race, inheritance, background. All this can be altered if we have the courage to examine how it formed us. We can alter the chemistry provided we have the courage to dissect the elements. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#courage #destiny #empowerment #responsibility #self-control

To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility. ↗

— Patrick Ness

#cowardice #responsibility #men

Anyone can change the world and everyone should try. ↗

— Chantal Wiebe

#responsibility #change