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“The Israelis object to an imposed settlement I don't know what they mean by an imposed settlement. It's quite obvious, without the all out support by the United States in money and weapons and so on the Israelis couldn't do what they've been doing. So we bear a very great share of the responsibility for the continuation of this...of this state of warfare.”

Knows Mean States United Responsibility United States Support Share Objects Bears Weapons Jew Obvious Warfare Settlement Continuation

Author:J. William Fulbright

“The question is wholly other, deeper and equally relevant to all: whether we shall, by whatever means, succeed in reconstituting the natural world as the true terrain of politics, rehabilitating the personal experience of human beings as the initial measure of things, placing morality above politics and responsibility above our desires, in making human community meaningful, in returning content to human speech, in reconstituting, as the focus of all social action, the autonomous, integral, and dignified human "I."”

“Yoga means we accept responsibility for the tasks in our life, and we know that being a king, being an enlightened teacher, being someone who sweeps the streets, we know that nothing is a greater yoga than anything else.”

Knows Mean Responsibility Accepting Greater Teacher Our Lives Streets Kings Yoga Tasks Enlightened Hinduism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We insist on producing a farm surplus, but think the government should find a profitable market for it. We overindulge in speculation, but ask the government to prevent panics. Now the only way to hold the government entirely responsible for conditions is to give up our liberty for a dictatorship. If we continue the more reasonable practice of managing our own affairs we must bear the burdens of our own mistakes. A free people cannot shift their responsibility for them to the government. Self-government means self-reliance.”

Source: Calvin Coolidge says: dispatches written by former-president Coolidge and syndicated to newspapers in 1930-1931 : gathered for issuance in book form on the one-hundredth anniversary of Mr. Coolidge's birth, 4 July 1972

“To live means to buy, to buy means to have power, to have power means to have responsibility.”

Mean Responsibility

Author:Florence Kelley

“If one defines the term 'dropout' to mean a person who has given up serious effort to meet his responsibilities, then every business office, government agency, golf club and university faculty would yield its quota.”

Ifs Mean Persons Government Given Term Work Effort Responsibility Serious Office Golf University Clubs Agency Faculty Yield Given Up Quota Golf Clubs Dropouts Government Agencies

Book:The Recovery of Confidence

Source: The Recovery of Confidence

“If "freedom" means, first of all, the responsibility of every individual for the rational determination of his own personal, professional and social existence, then there is no greater fear than that of the establishment of general freedom.”

Ifs Firsts Mean Individual Social Freedom Existence Responsibility Greater Determination Rational Establishment

Author:Wilhelm Reich

“The man who is fond of complaining likes to remain amid the objects of his vexation. He will most strongly revolt against every means proposed for his deliverance. This is what suits him. He asks nothing better than to sigh over his position and to remain in it.”

Men Mean Asks Responsibility Position Objects He Man Complaining Likes Suits Sigh Revolt Deliverance Very Mean Vexation

Author:Francois Guizot

“One of the most solemn responsibilities of the president and it's set out expressly in the Constitution is that the president is to take care that the laws are faithfully executed, and that means the Constitution. It means statutes. It means treaties. It means all of the laws of the United States.”

Mean States Care Law President United Responsibility United States Constitution Take Care Solemn Treaties Statutes

Author:Samuel Alito

“Yoga means we take responsibility for the tasks in our life. Whatever we are supposed to have karmically, life gives us. The question is: how do we handle it?”

Giving Mean Responsibility Our Lives Yoga Tasks Karma Handle Taking Responsibility Karma Yoga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“All suicides have the responsibility of fighting against the temptation of suicide. Every one of them knows very well in some corner of his soul that suicide, though a way out, is rather a mean and shabby one, and that it is nobler and finer to be conquered by life than to fall by one's own hand.”

Knows Way Wells Mean Soul Hands Fall Fighting Responsibility Suicide Corners Temptation Shabby Steppenwolf

Book:Steppenwolf

Source: Steppenwolf

“Reagan's story of freedom superficially alludes to the Founding Fathers, but its substance comes from the Gilded Age, devised by apologists for the robber barons. It is posed abstractly as the freedom of the individual from government control a Jeffersonian ideal at the roots of our Bill of Rights, to be sure. But what it meant in politics a century later, and still means today, is the freedom to accumulate wealth without social or democratic responsibilities and license to buy the political system right out from everyone else.”

“I can't overrule gravity or turn away an approaching hurricane. I'm powerless over those things, yet this doesn't mean that I can't act with responsibility. I can pack provisions and head to my cellar as a storm approaches.”

Mean I Can Turns Responsibility Approach Storm Gravity Packs Powerless Provision Hurricanes Cellars

Author:Peg O'Connor

“To oscillate between drill exercises that strive to attain efficiency in outward doing without the use of intelligence, and an accumulation of knowledge that is supposed to be an ultimate end in itself, means that education accepts the present social conditions as final, and thereby takes upon itself the responsibility for perpetuating them. A reorganization of education so that learning takes place in connection with the intelligent carrying forward of purposeful activities is a slow work. It can be accomplished only piecemeal, a step at a time.”

Source: Democracy And Education

“To be disciplined does not mean being silent, abstaining, or doing only what one thinks one may undertake without risk; it is not the art of eluding responsibility; it means acting in compliance with orders received, and therefore finding in one's own mind, by effort and reflection, the possibility to carry out such orders. It also means finding in one's own will the energy to face the risks involved in execution.”

Thinking Mind May Mean Doe Art Faces Order Energy Effort Acting Responsibility Risk Possibility Involved Findings Reflection Silent Execution Risk It Compliance Abstaining

Author:Ferdinand Foch

“A people who mean to be free must be prepared to meet danger in person, and not rely upon the fallacious protection of armies”

People Mean Persons Freedom Responsibility Military Danger Army Prepared Protection Defense Rely Be Prepared Rely Upon

Author:Edmund Randolph

“Crocker's Rules didn't give you the right to say anything offensive, but other people could say potentially offensive things to you, and it was your responsibility not to be offended. This was surprisingly hard to explain to people; many people would read the careful explanation and hear, "Crocker's Rules mean you can say offensive things to other people."”

People Giving Mean Hard Responsibility Careful Explanation Offensive Say Anything Offended

Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky

“The most meaningless term in the English language is "I take full responsibility." When a politician utters those words it means absolutely nothing.”

Mean Language Term Responsibility Politician Meaningless English Language Absolutely Nothing

Author:Bernard Goldberg

“The formal granting of independence created a more Manichean system of dependency and exploitation, since for those who practice it, it means power without responsibility and for those who suffer from it, it means exploitation without redress. In the days of old-fashioned colonialism, the imperial power had at least to explain and justify at home the actions it was taking abroad. In the colony those who served the ruling imperial power could at least look to its protection against any violent move by their opponents. With neocolonialism neither is the case.”

“Being in a rock band, I feel a certain responsibility to have a weird haircut. I mean, who else gets to do that?”

Feels Mean Certain Responsibility Rocks Band Haircuts Rock Bands

Author:Win Butler

“Over the years, many executives have said to me with pride: 'Boy, I worked so hard last year that I didn't take any vacation.' I always feel like responding, "You dummy. You mean to tell me you can take responsibility for an eighty-million-dollar project and you can't plan two weeks out of the year to have some fun?”

“Broadly speaking, Keynesianism means that the government has a specific responsibility for the behavior of the economy, that it doesn't work on its own autonomous course, but the government, when there's a recession, compensates by employment, by expansion of purchasing power, and in boom times corrects by being a restraining force. But it controls the great flow of demand into the economy, what since Keynesian times has been the flow of aggregate demand. That was the basic idea of Keynes so far as one can put it in a couple of sentences.”

“It is the responsibility of all of us to remind governments of their commitments to settle disputes by peaceful means and to negotiate in good faith under the UN Charter, and to denounce war agitation particularly by the media.”

Mean War Government Responsibility Media Commitment Peaceful Settling Disputes Charter Agitation Good Faith

Author:Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

“The office of Speaker is almost as ancient as Parliament itself. It emerged in the Middle Ages when the Commons - the ordinary people - of England needed a spokesman in their dealings with the King, someone who would voice their grievances and present their petitions. This was by no means a safe or easy thing to do at that time, and potential spokesman generally had to be pressured into accepting the responsibility.”

Source: The House of Commons at Work

“An award means a lot to me. It brings happiness along with a kind of fear. It brings fear because the award is the responsibility which audiences have put on us. So a singer winning an award should always try to give best of him to the audiences.”

Giving Should Trying Kind Mean Winning Responsibility Audience Singers Awards

Author:Shreya Ghoshal

“There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility. Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities all the problems involved voluntarily surrenders his birthright to a selfappointed elite of supermen. In such vital matters blind reliance upon 'experts' and uncritical acceptance of popular catchwords and prejudices is tantamount to the abandonment of self-determination and to yielding to other people's domination. As conditions are today, nothing can be more important to every intelligent man than economics. His own fate and that of his progeny are at stake.”

“It is the collective responsibility of the citizens in a modern state to ensure by all means necessary that its government adheres to the rule of law, not just domestically, but internationally. There are no bystanders. No one is entitled to an 'apolitical' exemption from such obligation. Where default occurs, either by citizens endorsement of official criminality or by the failure of citizens to effectively oppose it, liability is incurred by all”

“To sing a duet together means sharing with someone both the pleasure and the responsibility of making music for an audience which is there to feel enjoyment through music.”

Feels Mean Together Pleasure Responsibility Audience Enjoyment Duets

Author:Andrea Bocelli

“The only thing I believe is individual responsibility doesn't mean the government is the answer to ever fear and every problem every individual has. We are the masters of our own destiny.”

Believe Mean Problem Government Individual I Believe Answers Responsibility Destiny Masters Individual Responsibility

Author:Sean Hannity

“If I had political responsibility, I would want to prepare for a plan B that would foresee that the European currency union, that the eurozone, no longer necessarily consists of 17 member states. And that means to make provisions so that other countries are not pulled into the maelstrom through contagion.”

Ifs Want Mean Country States Political Responsibility Plans Members Unions Currency Other Countries Provision Contagion Plan B Eurozone Maelstrom Political Responsibility

Author:Peer Steinbruck

“It's important for all people, and not just people in bands, to speak out on social justice issues. That means journalists or plumbers have just as much of a responsibility to do that as artists.”

People Mean Important Artist Speak Social Justice Responsibility Issues Band Social Justice Journalist Speaks Out Plumber

Author:Serj Tankian

“But innovation is more than a new method. It is a new view of the universe, as one of risk rather than of chance or of certainty. It is a new view of man's role in the universe; he creates order by taking risks. And this means that innovation, rather than being an assertion of human power, is an acceptance of human responsibility.”

Men Humans Mean Order Universe Change Chance Views Responsibility Roles Risk Acceptance Innovation Method Certainty Assertion Taking Risks Human Power

Author:Peter Drucker

“Some people have concerns about what it means to leave our responsibilities to robots. I think to some degree in every family, you've got siblings who disagree over the care for their parents.”

People Thinking Mean Care Parent Responsibility Degrees Concern Disagree Robots Sibling

Author:Jake Schreier

“For me, digital is just another avenue. It doesn't mean that it has to be poor quality or poor content. But, you still run into the same struggles. You can't have full-on language, violence or sexual situations. You can't run rampant with the fact that it's digital. You can't do anything you want. You still have a responsibility to tell a story first, and show what the character is going through first, and then maybe you have a little bit of lee-way to show a more real side of life.”

“As long as you perceive that anyone is holding you back, you have not taken full responsibility for your own liberation. Liberation means that you stand free of making demands on others and life to make you happy. When you discover yourself to be nothing but Freedom, you stop setting up conditions and requirements that need to be satisfied in order for you to be happy. It is in the absolute surrender of all conditions and requirements that Liberation is discovered to be who and what you are. Then the love and wisdom that flows out of you has a liberating effect on others.”

“There can be no truly moral choice unless that choice is made in freedom; similarly, there can be no really firmly grounded and consistent defense of freedom unless that defense is rooted in moral principle. In concentrating on the ends of choice, the conservative, by neglecting the conditions of choice, loses that very morality of conduct with which he is so concerned. And the libertarian, by concentrating only on the means, or conditions, of choice and ignoring the ends, throws away an essential moral defense of his own position.”

“Liberty means that a man is recognized as free and treated as free by those who surround him.”

Men Mean Responsibility Liberty Treated Surround

Author:Mikhail Bakunin

“The promise of God is that you are His son. Her offspring. Its likeness. His equal. Ah...here is where you get hung up. You can accept "His son," "offspring," "likeness," but you recoil at being called "His equal." It is too much to accept. Too much bigness, too much wonderment-too much responsibility. For if you are God's equal, that means nothing is being done to you-and all things are created by you. There can be no more victims and no more villains-only outcomes of your thought about a thing.”

Ifs Inspirational Mean Done Religious Responsibility Accepting Too Much Son Promise Equal All Things Victim Outcomes Villain Hung Offspring Being Done Recoil

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“Really, one of us ought to have the courage to call the experiment off and shoulder the responsibility for the decision, but the majority reckons that that kind of courage would be a sign of cowardice, and the first step in a retreat. They think it would mean an undignified surrender for mankind as if there was any dignity in floundering and drowning in what we don't understand and never will.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Kind Mean Would Be Decision Responsibility Steps Mankind Ought Dignity Majority Surrender Experiments Shoulders Cowardice First Steps Retreat Drowning Floundering

Author:Stanislaw Lem

“Our culture is at a critical cusp - a time that requires that we define what it means to be a citizen in a democracy. Within our nation we need to foster a greater sense of collective responsibility.”

Needs Mean Culture Nations Responsibility Democracy Greater Internet Citizens Critical Collectives Free Speech Cusp Collective Responsibility

Author:Robert Neelly Bellah

“It is not nearly so important how well a message is received as how well it is sent. You cannot take responsibility for how well another accepts your truth; you can only ensure how well it is communicated. And by how well, I don't mean merely how clearly; I mean how lovingly, how compassionately, how sensitively, how courageously, and how completely.”

Wells Mean Important Responsibility Accepting Messages Taking Responsibility Social Interaction

Book:The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

Source: The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

“Once you capitulate to one dictator, does that mean that the next dictator or the next terrorist that says you're not going to make a comedy about - or a film at all about ISIS. All of us in public life have a responsibility right now to speak out and to say, 'No, Sony, you did the wrong thing' and to say to Hollywood, come behind - the other studios should come behind Sony and offer their support.”

Life Should Mean Doe Film Next Speak Behinds Responsibility Support Comedy Right Now Offers Hollywood Studios Terrorist Dictator Isis Wrong Things Public Life Speaks Out Sony

Author:Ed Royce

“Prudence does not mean failing to accept responsibilities and postponing decisions; it means being committed to making joint decisions after pondering responsibly the road to be taken, decisions aimed at strengthening that covenant between human beings and the environment, which should mirror the creative love of God, from whom we came and towards whom we are journeying.”

“Right and responsibility go hand in hand. You can't give rights to those who are not responsible. If you want to let your canary out of the cage, the first thing you would do is to kick your cat out of the house. This does not mean you don't love your cat, but he has no right to stay in the house because he can't act responsibly. It would be foolish to wait until he kills the canary and then punish him. You already know the cat can't be trusted. The problem with Muslims is that they too can't be trusted and can't act responsibly.”

Ifs Knows Want Giving Firsts Mean Doe Problem Hands Would Be House Waiting Responsibility Rights Love You Cat Responsible Foolish Kicks Trusted Cages Hand In Hand Canaries

Author:Ali Sina

“I think the thing about capitalism is it's an evil necessity, capitalism. Communism has been tried and failed, and socialism, that doesn't work very well. Capitalism works, but the problem about capitalism is it does mean that a few individuals become very wealthy. Therefore, I think those individuals have enormous responsibility to redistribute that wealth either by creating new businesses or creating new jobs and making sure that money just doesn't lie in a bank account for future generations.”

“From this day forward, Flight Control will be known by two words: "Tough" and "Competent." Tough means we are forever accountable for what we do or what we fail to do. We will never again compromise our responsibilities. Every time we walk into Mission Control we will know what we stand for. Competent means we will never take anything for granted. We will never be found short in our knowledge and in our skills.”

Knows Mean Two Found Walks Responsibility Known Forever Failing Skills Tough Safety Missions Flight Compromise Granted Aviation This Day Competent Never Take Anything For Granted

Author:Gene Kranz

“Real man is someone who handles his responsibilities. Take care of all of his responsibilities. No matter how, by any means take care of your situations.”

Men Mean Real Matter Care Responsibility Situation Take Care Handle Real Men

Author:Curtis Jackson

“One shouldn't pursue the wrong policies just because one is afraid of not being reelected. Those who intend to govern have to take responsibility for their countries and for Europe as a whole. This means, if need be, that they have to pursue the right policies, even if many voters think they are the wrong ones.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Mean Country Whole Responsibility Policy Europe Pursue Voters Taking Responsibility

Author:Jean-Claude Juncker

“Self-care means accepting some risk, and accepting much responsibility. It is not for all people or all cases.”

People Mean Self Care Responsibility Accepting Cases Risk Self Care

Book:Doctor Yourself: Natural Healing That Works: Easyread Edition

Source: Doctor Yourself: Natural Healing That Works: Easyread Edition

“In the early 1970s, Milton Friedman argued that corporations should not be socially responsible because they had no mandate to be; they existed to make money, not to be charitable institutions. But in the economy of the 21st century, corporations cannot be socially responsible, if social responsibility is understood to mean sacrificing profits for the sake of some perceived social good. That's because competition has become so much more intense.”