#responsibility

A movie star is someone people look at and go, 'I want to be like that person'. There's the responsibility of desire. It's not something I'm interested in trying. I would fail miserably at it, so why even bother? ↗

— Christian Bale

#desire #even #fail #go #i

Excuses are a time thief. Have a goal, accept responsibility, and take action! ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#dreams #excuses #goal #goals #happiness

When you become active in the system and communicate to your representatives, and they don't vote in accordance with your values, your responsibility is to support candidates who will. ↗

— Joan Blades

#active #become #candidates #communicate #representatives

How easy is murder when one calls it by a different name? How much easier is it for the conscience to condone “reaping” than “killing”—and when one knows that death isn’t the end, does it stop the killing hand for fear of retribution, or does it simply make it easier to kill, because, if life continues, how can murder be murder at all? ↗

— Neal Shusterman

#euphemisms #killing #responsibility #death

A man must be prepared to face life, as well as death, there's no escape from either. ↗

— Ellis Peters

#courage #death #life #responsibility #courage

The problem with ID, of course, is that it leaves open the possibility that the intelligence behind nature may have a moral interest in us, having communicated already with humanity in the past, and might try to boss you around in your private affairs. With hypothetical advanced aliens residing at a safely distant address in the hypothetical multiverse, that is - to the relief of folks like Gribbin, Dawkins and the New Scientist - manifestly not the case. ↗

— David Klinghoffer

#aliens #dawkins #extraterrestrials #id #intelligent-design

If a mistake is made the honorable thing to do is to own up to it.' Of course I was talking about Levi owning up to his mistakes. But as I finish this book, I realize it applies equally to myself, and to all of us as we try but fail to live up to the standards we know are right. Our inability and unwillingness to keep the standards don't make the standards any less valuable and good. ↗

— Bristol Palin

#equality

Completing the circle is both philosophical and tactical - there is a growing sense of mastery that comes with practice, diligence, and experience. ↗

— Eric Mann

#progressivism #responsibility #experience

So much about life in a global economy feels as though it has passed beyond the individual's control--what happens to our jobs, to the prices at the gas station, to the vote in the legislature. But somehow food still feels a little different. We can still decide, every day, what we're going to put into our bodies, what sort of food chain we want to participate in. We can, in other words, reject the industrial omelet on offer and decide to eat another. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#food #responsibility #food

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. It is up to you to give [life] a meaning. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#life #personal-responsibility #freedom