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“It makes me angry when people insist that I have a responsibility to do what they think I should do.”

People Thinking Should Responsibility Angry Make Me Angry

“Success is all about being able to extend love to people. The people I consider successful are so because of how they handle their responsibilities to other people, how they approach the future, people who have a full sense of the value of their life and what they want to do with it.”

People Want Able Values Responsibility Successful Approach Handle Responsibility To Others

Author:Ralph Fiennes

“European democracy was originally imbued with a sense of Christian responsibility and self-discipline, but these spiritual principles have been gradually losing their force. Spiritual independence is being pressured on all sides by the dictatorship of self-satisfied vulgarity, of the latest fads, and of group interests.”

“Under the Bush administration, openness and accountability have been replaced by secrecy and evasion of responsibility. They abuse their power, conceal their actions from the American people, and refuse to hold officials accountable.”

People Has Beens Action Responsibility Abuse Refuse Administration Officials Accountability Openness Replaced Secrecy Evasion

Author:Edward Kennedy

“To rail and rant against tyranny is to manifest inferiority, for there is no tyranny but ignorance; to be conscious of one's powers is to lose consciousness of tyranny. Self government is not a remote aim. It is an intimate and inescapable fact. To govern oneself is a natural imperative, and all tyranny is the miscarriage of self government. The first requisite of freedom is to accept responsibility for the lack of it.”

“What is clear is that the earth is mandating that the human community assume a responsibility never assigned to any previous generation...Our task at this critical moment is to awaken the energies needed to create the new world and to evoke a universal communion of all parts of life.”

“The only thing I would want to say is that storytelling is ancient; it's something that everybody does. Kids mustn't be in awe of it. Reading should be a joy - fun, fun, fun - not a responsibility, not something you do because society demands it, but something you do because it's a pleasure.”

Want Should Doe Kids Joy Reading Fun Pleasure Responsibility Demand Ancient Storytelling Awe

Author:Natalie Babbitt

“Thank the Lord, Germanic democracy means just this: that any old climber or moral slacker cannot rise by devious paths to govern his national comrades, but that, by the very greatness of the responsibility to be assumed, incompetents and weaklings are frightened of.”

Mean Responsibility Moral Lord Democracy Path Greatness Frightened Comrade Climbers Devious Slacker

Book:Mein Kampf

Source: Mein Kampf

“All the shrewdness of 'man' seeks one thing: to be able to live without responsibility.”

Men Able Responsibility One Thing Shrewdness

Book:Attack Upon 'Christendom'

Source: Attack Upon 'Christendom'

“There comes a time in the life of a nation, as in the life of an individual, when it must face great responsibilities, whether it will or no. We have now reached that time. We cannot avoid facing the fact that we occupy a new place among the people of the world.”

People World Facts Faces Individual Nations Responsibility There Comes A Time New Places Great Responsibility

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“Being constantly in the public eye gives me a special responsibility, particularly that of using the impact of photographs to transmit a message, to sensitize the word to an important cause, to defend certain values.”

Giving Important Eye Certain Values Causes Responsibility Special Messages Give Me Impact Photograph Transmit Public Eye

Author:Princess Diana

“The same advice my commanding officer at Patrol Squadron 17, Cmdr. Robert J. Quinn, gave me before I was grilled to be given the responsibility to lead a crew of 12 all over the world, ready to stop a Russian submarine preparing to wipe out an American city with a nuclear missile: ‘Always remember that common sense and communication will solve 95 percent of the challenges you face in the Navy and life.”

“The responsibility of the executive is (1) to create and maintain a sense of purpose and moral code for the organization; (2) to establish systems of formal and informal communication; and (3) to ensure the willingness of people to cooperate.”

People Purpose Responsibility Moral Communication Organization Code Executives Willingness Formal Moral Code

Author:Chester Barnard

“I hate it when people blame someone else and don't take responsibility.”

People Hate Responsibility I Hate Blame Taking Responsibility Blame Someone

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999

“I think that's what growing up is all about. It's about taking on new responsibilities and learning what you can handle, and learning what you can't.”

Thinking Responsibility Growing Up Growing Handle

Author:Sarah Michelle Gellar

“At Calvary, there was a great healing transfer where the responsibility for healing was switched from God giving it, to you receiving it.”

Giving Healing Responsibility Receiving Transfers Calvary

Author:Rod Parsley

“I don't have to figure out how God is going to solve my problem. I don't have to understand how He's going to bring it to pass. That's His responsibility. My job is to simply believe that He will.”

Believe Problem Jobs Responsibility Figures Solve

Author:Joel Osteen

“Speeches by businessmen on social responsibility...may gain them kudos in the short run. But it helps to strengthen the already too prevalent view that the pursuit of profits is wicked.... There is one and only one social responsibility of business-to...engage in open and free competition without deception or fraud.”

May Helping Running Social Views Responsibility Speech Gains Competition Profit Pursuit Deception Wicked Fraud Businessman Social Responsibility

Author:Milton Friedman

“TV is a responsibility, not only in entertaining people, but using this medium of television in positive ways to teach people and enlighten people.”

People Way Responsibility Teach Television Tvs Mediums Entertaining Enlightening

Author:James Van Praagh

“It's something that I know how to do because I taught for a very long time, so I can do it, and I feel a responsibility to do it - for instance, in this situation, where I'm touring specifically for this period of time. But most writers are not public people. There are a few writers out there who really enjoy it and are good at it, and can both work and do that at the same time, but I'm not one of those people.”

People Knows Feels Long I Can Enjoy Can Do Responsibility Situation Know How Taught Periods Long Time Instance Touring I Can Do It

Author:Alice Sebold

“The so-called "secondary market" has also always been something that I'm comfortable with. I'm not a dealer who turns his nose up at that part of the business. I'm an art dealer - my primary responsibility is to represent the artist.”

Art Artist Turns Responsibility Comfortable Primaries Noses Dealer

Author:Larry Gagosian

“Caring for our seniors is perhaps the greatest responsibility we have. Those who walked before us have given so much and made possible the life we all enjoy.”

Made Given Enjoy Responsibility Caring Senior

Author:John Hoeven

“It's actually a good thing if you do reference checks on somebody and half the people you call say they are a micromanager and the other half say they actually give me a lot of responsibility. That's a feature not a bug.”

People Ifs Giving Half Responsibility Give Me Good Things Checks Features Bugs Other Half

Author:Keith Rabois

“The Germans tend to like to blame the Nazi experience on one man who can be scapegoated. If you pile all the blame onto him, you exonerate the German masses from any responsibility.”

Ifs Men Responsibility Mass Blame One Man Nazi

Author:Gavriel David Rosenfeld

“If we look to our responsibility to the generations yet unborn who will come after us, how can we fail to recognize that peace and freedom are inextricably bound up one with another and that the threat to one is a threat to both”

Ifs Looks Responsibility Failing Generations Threat Bounds Unborn

Author:Winston Churchill

“The economic freedom which is the prerequisite of any other freedom cannot be the freedom from economic care which the socialist promise us, and which can be obtained only by relieving the individual at the same time of the necessity and of the power of choice: it must be the freedom of economic activity which, with the right of choice, inevitably also carries the risk and the responsibility of that right”

Care Choices Individual Responsibility Risk Economic Promise Activity Carrie Socialist Prerequisites Power Of Choice Economic Freedom

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“What comes to pass does so not so much because a few people want it to happen, as because the mass of citizens abdicate their responsibility and let things be.”

People Want Doe Happens Responsibility Citizens Mass

Book:Selections from political writings (1910-1920)

Source: Selections from political writings (1910-1920)

“I've had a very interesting life. There are ways of handling the complexities. I'm willing to take on the responsibilities as a father, as a producer, as an actor; and I enjoy that. I've always been changing and evolving and growing. There's no pinnacle of power where you can sit back and relax.”

Way Actors Father Enjoy Interesting Responsibility Growing Willing Producers Evolve Complexity Relax Very Interesting Pinnacle Interesting Life

Author:Tom Cruise

“As I view it, in every family a record should be kept...that record should be the first stone, if you choose, in the family altar. It should be a book known and used in the family circle; and when the child reaches maturity and goes out to make another household, one of the first things that the young couple should take along should be the records of their families, to be extended by them as life goes on...each one of us carries, individually, the responsibility of record keeping, and we should assume it.”

“All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America. And undocumented immigrants who desperately want to embrace those responsibilities see little option but to remain in the shadows, or risk their families being torn apart.”

Want Littles America Responsibility Risk Shadow Embrace Rewards Immigrants Offense Torn Reap Torn Apart Undocumented Immigrants Undocumented Workers

Author:Barack Obama

“[Freud's] sense of reality is less clouded by wishful thinking than is the case with other people and [he combines] the qualities of critical judgment, earnestness and responsibility.”

People Thinking Reality Quality Responsibility Cases Judgment Critical Wishful Thinking Earnestness Clouded

Book:Einstein on Peace

Source: Einstein on Peace

“Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.”

Men Grows Responsibility

Book:When a man comes to himself

Source: When a man comes to himself

“[My best tip for overcoming depression is] to regard it as being like the weather. It's not your responsibility that it's raining, but it is real when it rains, and the fact that it's raining does not mean that the rain is never going to stop. The only thing to do is to believe that, one day, it won't be raining and accept it so you can find a mental umbrella to shield yourself from the worst. The sun will eventually come up.”

Believe Mean Doe Real Facts Responsibility Accepting Sun Worst One Day Rain Overcoming Regard Come Up Weather Things To Do Shields Umbrella Overcoming Depression

Author:Stephen Fry

“It is the responsibility of the living to make meaningful the sacrifices of the dead.”

Responsibility Sacrifice Meaningful

Book:The Illearth War

Source: The Illearth War

“I regret to say that my hand did, in fact, have an improper relationship with Chelsea Clinton. The incident represents a profound lapse of judgment for which my hand takes sole responsibility.”

Facts Hands Responsibility Regret Judgment Profound Clinton Sole Incidents I Regret Chelsea Lapses

Author:William J. Clinton

“The patrol system leads each boy to see that he has some individual responsibility for the good of his patrol.”

Individual Responsibility Boys Individual Responsibility

Book:Playing the Game: A Baden-Powell Compendium

Source: Playing the Game: A Baden-Powell Compendium

“As Mayor, I have a responsibility to ensure city government is making life better for all Angelenos, especially those whose past hard work laid the foundation for the city we enjoy today. Whether someone is born here, or comes here for college, career, or retirement, I want L.A. to be a place that welcomes all generations.”

Want Hard Government Today Past Enjoy Born Cities Responsibility Careers Generations College Hard Work Foundation Retirement Mayors Enjoy Today City Government

Author:Eric Garcetti

“I've really learned not to try to take responsibility for all things. And to keep my side of the street clean.”

Trying Sides Responsibility Streets All Things Clean Taking Responsibility

Author:Sharon Stone

“Because my parents were American missionaries who sent me to public schools in rural Japan, I had to confront Hiroshima as a child. I was in the fourth grade - the only American in my class - when our teacher wrote the words "America" and "Atomic Bomb" in white chalk on the blackboard. All forty Japanese children turned around to stare at me. My country had done something unforgivable and I had to take responsibility for it, all by myself. I desperately wanted to dig a hole under my desk, to escape my classmates' mute disbelief and never have to face them again.”

“American television is a huge product that is exported around the world and what that means is that what our movies and films say about who women [are] has global ramifications. There is a burden and a responsibility when you are someone who is very aware of how far we've yet to travel in granting women equal rights and equal respect and you are creating cultural products. You have to be responsible and be aware of the message that you are sending out.”

“Chevron has wrapped itself in some pretty good arguments that make you scratch your head. The moral responsibility is certainly at its door. I leave it to other people to figure out whether there's legal responsibility.”

People Responsibility Moral Doors Figures Argument Scratches Moral Responsibility

Author:Joe Berlinger

“One of the principal factors fueling the proliferation of the abuse of secrecy and sensitive but unclassifieds is the administration's adherence to the unitary executive principal. This administration more than any of its predecessors believes that it is its responsibility to collect power onto itself in the executive office when it comes to the conduct of war, foreign policy, the management of agencies and departments, regulations, etc.”

“We can't tell China what to do if we don't do it ourselves. You don't inspire someone to take an action by refusing to take it yourself. We are in a race to be the dominant clean-energy provider to the world. Maybe this goes without saying: We've got to get China into an international protocol and the magic words are "common responsibility with differentiated action."”

Ifs World Action Energy Common Race Responsibility Magic Inspire Clean International China Dominant Providers Clean Energy Protocol Magic Words

Author:Jay Inslee

“We [USA and China] have a common responsibility with different numerical targets, and that's the situation ultimately we are going to have with China. We emit six times more per person than they do. It's hard to tell them to cut theirs in half right now until we start moving. Being the ostrich with your head in the sand and tail feathers in the air like some would have us to do while China continues to pollute is simply not an option.”

Persons Different Hard Moving Common Half Responsibility Situation Cutting Air Right Now Six China Usa Sand Target Tails Feathers Ostriches

Author:Jay Inslee

“The responsibility of the scientist or journalist is to convey the context. If you're talking about the Arctic Sea ice, you have to embrace the reality that there's a huge number of other things that influence that on a year-to-year basis.”

Ifs Years Reality Numbers Responsibility Talking Sea Influence Huge Scientist Bases Embrace Ice Journalist Arctic Huge Numbers

Author:Andrew Revkin

“The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction.”

Force Powerful Responsibility Racism Consequence Prejudice Indifference Racist Holocaust Citizenship Stereotype Inaction Ramifications Racism And Prejudice

Author:Tim Holden

“All the theories of conspiracy were always a way to escape our responsibilities. It is a very important kind of social sickness by which we avoid recognizing reality such as it is and avoid our responsibilities.”

Way Kind Important Reality Social Responsibility Theory Sickness Conspiracy Recognizing

Author:Umberto Eco

“People were always pointing the finger at the fast food industry. And I was a big fan of personal responsibility - you know, no one is forcing you to eat. We're not geese being stuffed with corn.”

People Knows Bigs Responsibility Fans Industry Fingers Pointing Corn Personal Responsibility Geese Fast Food Pointing Fingers Food Industry

Author:Morgan Spurlock

“I think the combatant is always burdened with returning and making his way through his past. And that we as citizens have a responsibility to those guys upon return. We have to make some kind of an attempt to understand what their life is like.”

Thinking Way Kind Past Life Is Guy Responsibility Return Citizens Life Is Like

Author:Anthony Swofford

“As conservatives, we can only be glad if two people legally take responsibility for each other, in good times and bad.”

People Ifs Two Responsibility Glad Good Times Taking Responsibility

Author:Jens Spahn

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