#responsible

The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#confessed #consciousness #courage #display #endurance

This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#desire #equity #excess #lead #must

Parochial schools in the United States are also responsible for educating students from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds, including many who are non-Catholic. ↗

— Mark Foley

#backgrounds #educating #ethnic #including #many

Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#being #content #deal #dream #dreams

There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities. ↗

— Eric Hobsbawm

#activities #consequences #even #group #individuals

I do understand what it is to not want to commit to someone, knowing that might bring pain or commit to a life that has to do with being responsible to people other than myself. These things, I think, are normal things. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#being responsible #bring #commit #i #i do

Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar. ↗

— J. Edgar Hoover

#citizenship #common #criminals #enforcement #every

The 1st Congressional District contains almost half of the biotech and biomedical companies in Washington, and my job often allows me to meet the people responsible for this exciting research. ↗

— Jay Inslee

#almost #biomedical #biotech #companies #congressional

This hype word bothers me though It always sounds like an accusation, what does it mean, advertising, column inches in the press? Bands themselves are never really responsible for all of that. That is something that happens to you when you sell millions of records. ↗

— Holly Johnson

#advertising #always #bands #bothers #column

Looking back, I think we were all quite mature, surprisingly responsible. In earlier wars, boys of our age had just gone off to raise hell or enlist or both, but we stayed dutifully at our desks doing tomorrow's homework. ↗

— John Knowles

#back #both #desks #doing #earlier