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“We must bear in mind that imperialism is a world system, the last stage of capitalism-and it must be defeated in a world confrontation. The strategic end of this struggle should be the destruction of imperialism. Our share, the responsibility of the exploited and underdeveloped of the world, is to eliminate the foundations of imperialism: our oppressed nations, from where they extract capital, raw materials, technicians, and cheap labor, and to which they export new capital-instruments of domination-arms and all kinds of articles, thus submerging us in an absolute dependence.”

Source: Guerrilla Warfare

“The army should go back to their assigned duties, and police should take the responsibility of fighting the cartels.”

Should Fighting Responsibility Duty Army Police Cartels

Author:Vicente Fox

“When people start to write articles about what might be wrong with the 'Today' show you know where you should point the finger, point it at me because I have been there the longest. And it's my responsibility.”

People Knows Should Writing Has Beens Shows Might Today Responsibility Fingers Articles

Author:Matt Lauer

“It is a sound principle of finance, and a still sounder principle of government, that those who have the duty of expending the revenue of a country should also be saddled with the responsibility of levying and providing it.”

Should Stills Country Government Sound Responsibility Principles Duty Finance Providing Revenue Sounder

Author:Wilfrid Laurier

“Let me be clear: Any new approach must ensure the integrity of the game. One of my most important responsibilities as commissioner of the NBA is to protect the integrity of professional basketball and preserve public confidence in the league and our sport. I oppose any course of action that would compromise these objectives. But I believe that sports betting should be brought out of the underground and into the sunlight where it can be appropriately monitored and regulated”

“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

“The ultimate priority of humanity should not be to savour the power given to us, but rather to account for the according responsibility.”

Should Humanity Given Responsibility Ultimate Accounts Priorities Savour

Author:Christian Harrison

“It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous.”

People Knows Should Long Responsibility Rights Couple Gay Married Fairs Standing Should Have Stable Gay Marriage Horrific Married Couples Rights And Responsibilities Gay Relationship

Author:Ian Mckellen

“It is not the responsibility of the language to force good looking code, but the language should make good looking code possible.”

Should Language Force Responsibility Code Looking Good

Author:Yukihiro Matsumoto

“Students who are interested in learning about the environment should not be dissuaded from doing so, but only if they have proved their proficiency in other basic courses, such as U.S. history. Until then, we need to focus on producing well-educated citizens steeped in their country's history and mindful of their civic responsibilities.”

Ifs Needs Should Wells Country Courses Responsibility Environment Focus Students Citizens Educated Civics Well Educated Proficiency Civic Responsibility

Author:George Nethercutt

“Western governments should bear their responsibilities toward the welfare of their people and not try to make oil producers pay the costs”

People Should Trying Government Pay Responsibility Bears Cost Western Oil Producers Welfare

Author:Mohammad Khatami

“But there are a couple of places where it is clear to me that there should be no ambiguity of corporate responsibility - the environment and civil rights, .. As a corporation, you cannot let the desire for unanimity override your obligation for fairness.”

Should Desire Responsibility Clear Environment Rights Couple Obligation Civil Rights Corporate Corporations Fairness Ambiguity Unanimity Corporate Responsibility

Author:Leo Hindery

“In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us by a dictatorship.”

Should Enough Would Be Individual Responsibility Should Have Collectives Dictatorship Spain Collective Responsibility

Author:Federica Montseny

“Disaster management should be coordinated by the federal government, .. It is our exact responsibility.”

Should Government Responsibility Management Disaster Federal Government

Author:Alcee Hastings

“Hitherto the principle of causality was universally accepted as an indispensable postulate of scientific research, but now we are told by some physicists that it must be thrown overboard. The fact that such an extraordinary opinion should be expressed in responsible scientific quarters is widely taken to be significant of the all-round unreliability of human knowledge. This indeed is a very serious situation.”

Source: The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics

“I believe that prayer in public schools should be voluntary. It is difficult for me to see how religious exercises can be a requirement in public schools, given our Constitutional requirement of separation of church and state. I feel that the highly desirable goal of religious education must be principally the responsibility of church and home. I do not believe that public education should show any hostility toward religion, and neither should it inhibit voluntary participation, if it does not interfere with the educational process.”

Source: The Presidential Campaign 1976: President Gerald R. Ford. 2. v

“Children, it should be repeated, are not pocket editions of adults, because childhood is a period of physical growth and development, a period of preparation for adult responsibility and public and private life. A program of children cannot be merely an adaptation of the program for adults, nor should it be curtailed during periods of depression or emergency expansion of other programs.”

Should Children Growth Responsibility Childhood Development Periods Adults Program Preparation Pockets Expansion Emergencies Adaptation Private Life

Author:Grace Abbott

“Strength must build up, not destroy. It should outdo itself, not others who are weaker. Used without responsibility, it causes nothing but harm and death. I can lift the heaviest weights, but I can not take the responsibility off my shoulders. Because the way we use our strength defines our fate. What traces will I leave on my path into the future? Do we really have to kill in order to live? My true strength lies in not seeing weakness as weakness. My strength needs no victims. My strength is my compassion.”

Way Needs Should I Can Use Used Lying Order Causes Responsibility Compassion Path Fate Seeing Weakness Weight Victim Harm Shoulders Lifts Can Not True Strength

Author:Patrik Baboumian

“If photographers are responsible for creating or reflecting an image of women in society, then I must say, there is only one way for the future, and this is to define women as strong and independent. This should be the responsibility of photographers today: to free women, and finally everyone, from the terror of youth and perfection.”

“Obviously, the state's responsibility should be to legislate rules for a well-ordered society. It has no right or duty to creep into the bedrooms of the nation.”

Should Wells States Individual Nations Responsibility Crime Duty Bedroom Creeps Prohibition Individual Rights

Author:Pierre Trudeau

“Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.”

Knows Way Giving Feels Should Has Beens Responsibility Significant Fortunate Giving Back Prescriptions

Author:Bill Gates

“In short, competition has to shoulder the responsibility of explaining all the meaningless ideas of the economists, whereas it should rather be the economists who explain competition.”

Should Ideas Responsibility Competition Shoulders Meaningless Economist Explaining

Book:Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works

Source: Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works

“I try to tell people to do, or advise them, anyway, is adopt conservative philosophies like hard work, preparation, perseverance, love of God, love of country, personal responsibility. Start to think for yourself and then go out and vote. And I think that once they start to do that, they will know where their vote should go.”

“The Congress should not be creating money out of thin air, which is what Lincoln did when he created greenbacks. But it is a congressional responsibility to maintain gold and silver as a legal tender.”

Should Responsibility Air Creating Gold Congress Silver Gold And Silver Thin Air

Author:Ron Paul

“If responsibility is not in the hands of the Iraqi government, then I consider the responsibility for this event lies with the occupation forces which should either leave immediately or according to a timetable.”

Ifs Should Hands Government Lying Force Responsibility Events Occupation Timetables

Author:Muqtada al Sadr

“You should take some responsibility for the way you present yourself. But you should not be hung up on your looks, whether you are ugly or handsome, because it isn't an achievement.”

Way Should Looks Responsibility Achievement Ugly Hung Handsome

Author:Christopher Reeve

“A woman should have the ballot, because without this responsibility she cannot best develop her moral courage.”

Should Responsibility Moral Should Have Ballots Moral Courage

Author:Jane Addams

“Today the Israeli government continues seizures of Palestinian land for settlements, military incursions into surrounding countries and denial of the right of Palestinians expelled by terror to return. Ariel Sharon, Israel's prime minister, is a war criminal who should be in prison, not in office. Israel's own Kahan commission found that Sharon shared responsibility for the Sabra and Shatila massacres.”

“I think one must take responsibility for one's actions and one's decisions. But one should never take -- one should never assume that everything that happens for the good is achieved by one's self alone.”

Thinking Should Self Happens Action Decision Responsibility Assuming Taking Responsibility Never Assume

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“There's one bright spot in the generally gloomy picture know as the Pacific Conflict Zone. According to my calculations, by the year 2500 or so we should have killed off every last member of our species who is stupid enough to take part in so futile a pastime as this war between "ideals," and with luck they won't have left their genes behind because they'll typically have been killed at an age when society thinks they're too young to assume the responsibility of childbearing. After that we may get some peace and quiet for a change.”

“We should stay on the right track to the 21st century. Opportunity alone is not enough. I want to build an America in the 21st century in which all Americans take personal responsibility for themselves, their families, their communities and their country.”

Want Should Country Enough America Opportunity Community Responsibility Century Track 21st Century Personal Responsibility Right Track

Author:William J. Clinton

“We need government and business to work together for the benefit of everyone. It should no longer be just about typical "corporate social responsibility" where the "responsibility" bit is usually the realm of a small team buried in a basement office - now it should be about every single person in a business taking responsibility to make a difference in everything they do, at work and in their personal lives.”

“Abortion is the insurance against that fate worse than death which is called a family. Our no-fault insurance has removed our responsibility for car accidents, and no-fault divorce has removed our responsibility for marriage accidents; why should abortion not be our no-fault sexual insurance policy that removes our responsibility for sex accidents?”

Should Sex Responsibility Fate Car Policy Faults Divorce Accidents Abortion Remove Car Accident Insurance Policy

Book:Three Approaches to Abortion: A Thoughtful and Compassionate Guide to Today's Most Controversial Issue

Source: Three Approaches to Abortion: A Thoughtful and Compassionate Guide to Today's Most Controversial Issue

“We must seek support in the moral values that have ensured the progress of our civilization. Honesty and hard work, responsibility and faith in our strength are bound to bring us success. There should be no place for despondency. The crisis can and must be fought by uniting our intellectual, spiritual and material resources.”

“Magic doesn't suit everyone. Only those prepared to take full responsibility for themselves should apply.”

Should Responsibility Magic Prepared Suits

Author:Peter J. Carroll

“What is proposed herein is that we have no right, nor any ethical justification, for clearing land or using wilderness while we tread over lawns, create erosion, and use land inefficiently. Our responsibility is to put our house in order. Should we do so, there will never be any need to destroy wilderness.”

Needs Should Use Order House Responsibility Land Wilderness Ethical Justification Lawns Clearing Permaculture Erosion

Author:Bill Mollison

“One of the proven ways of getting workers more involved with their jobs is by dovetailing employee profit-sharing and stock ownership plans with greater responsibility sharing... Trade unions in this country should... consider these arrangements much more carefully than they have up to now... Expanded employee profit participation and stock ownership would provide workers with a greater measure of economic and social independence, thus stimulating increased productivity.”

“I'm always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect.”

Should Humans Given Animal Responsibility Treats Pushing Chimpanzees

Author:Jane Goodall

“Possession properly has two faces, two aspects: we all have a right to private property, but this is accompanied by our responsibility for its righteous use. These two things (which should be inseparable) are frequently divided today. Everyone admits that the farmer who own a horse is obligated to feed and care for it, but in the case of stocks and bonds, we often forget that the same principle should prevail.”

“Businesses should be focused on business and social responsibility should be government responsibility.”

Should Government Social Responsibility Focused Social Responsibility

Author:Terry Gou

“Fifty-fifty marriages are an impossibility. They do not work. They cannot work. In marriage someone has to be the final decision maker. Someone has to delegate responsibility, and God has ordained that this should be the husband.”

Should Decision Responsibility Husband Finals Fifty Makers Impossibility Delegates Decision Makers

Author:Wayne Mack

“We've learned that women can and should do 'men's jobs,' for instance, and we've won the principle (if not the fact) of getting equal pay. But we haven't yet established the principle (much less the fact) that men can and should do 'women's jobs': that homemaking and child-rearing are as much a man's responsibility, too, and that those jobs in which women are concentrated outside the home would probably be better paid if more men became secretaries, file clerks, and nurses, too.”

Ifs Men Should Children Facts Home Jobs Pay Responsibility Principles Havens Equal Paid Equality Instance Nurse Secretary Files Clerks Equal Pay Child Rearing Homemaking

Author:Gloria Steinem

“The habits of a lifetime when everything else had to come before writing are not easily broken, even when circumstances now often make it possible for writing to be first; habits of years - responses to others, distractibility, responsibility for daily matters - stay with you, mark you, become you. The cost of discontinuity (that pattern still imposed on women) is such a weight of things unsaid, an accumulation of material so great, that everything starts up something else in me; what should take weeks take me sometimes months to write; what should take months, takes years.”

Source: Silences

“I do think that it's a responsibility when there are so few of us as African Americans to kind of get to that place of success in a positive light. We should take a stance and stand for something and use that platform for positivity.”

Thinking Should Kind Use Light Responsibility Positivity African American Platforms Stance Stand For Something

Author:Misty Copeland

“For me, the political part of being an actor is very tough. To sit somewhere and tell somebody why you should feel this way or that way about my character does not feel like my responsibility. It feels like the responsibility of the writer and the person who created it.”

Way Feels Should Persons Doe Character Political Actors Responsibility Tough

Author:Emma Stone

“Surely it should be a matter of moral responsibility that we humans, different from other animals mainly by virtue of our more highly developed intellect and, with it, our greater capacity for understanding and compassion, ensure that medical progress slowly detaches its roots from the manure of non-human animal suffering and despair.”

“What is meant here is that man should not become immersed in loving the world which will make him forget the responsibilities that Allah had ordered him to hold, but he has to look at the world in its reality, in which it represents a place for obeying Allah.”

Men World Should Looks Reality Forget Responsibility Obeying

Author:Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

“When couples start a family, they give up their personal love to achieve a greater responsibility - to nurture their children into good human beings. Nothing should deter them from that goal until the kids are up on their own feet”

Giving Should Humans Children Kids Goal Human Beings Responsibility Greater Feet Achieve Couple Giving Up Nurture Good Human Being Personal Love

Author:Siddharth Katragadda

“The central attitudes driving the Demand Man are: It's your job to do things for me, including taking care of my responsibilities if I drop the ball on them. If I'm unhappy about any aspect of my life, whether it has to do with our relationship or not, it's your fault. You should not place demands on me at all. You should be grateful for whatever I choose to give. I am above criticism. I am a very loving and giving partner. You're lucky to have me.”

Ifs Men Giving Should Care Jobs Attitude Responsibility Lucky Demand Aspect Criticism Balls Grateful Faults Including Partners Driving Unhappy Our Relationship Be Grateful

Author:Lundy Bancroft

“I think the most dangerous word in the English language is 'should.' 'I should have done this.' Or 'I should do that.' 'Should' implies responsibility. It connotes demand. Which is just not the case. Life ebbs and flows.”

Thinking Should Done Language Responsibility Cases Dangerous Demand Flow Should Have Should I English Language Ebb And Flow

Author:Chris Pine