#responsibility

Each of us should take personal responsibility for our diet, and our children's diet, and the government's role should be to make certain it provides the best information possible to help people stay healthy. ↗

— Jim Talent

#best #certain #children #each #government

'Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions. ↗

— Antony Jay

#committee #decisions #device #matter #referring

My dad has no control over who works with me. Me, me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything. ↗

— Shane MacGowan

#anything #control #dad #me #over

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. ↗

— Frederica Montseny

#dictatorship #enough #imposed #individual #intelligence

It was not enough that food aplenty was within Man’s grasp: he wanted more. It was not enough that prey surrendered themselves to Man according to the natural order: Man wanted to cook his prey. Man had discovered fire when lightning stuck and set a tree or two alight, but he was clumsy and greedy and stupid and could not keep the flame alive ↗

— David Bowles

#myth #religion #responsibility #food

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#consequences #karma #pay-it-forward #reciprocity #responsibility

I'm convinced that responsibility is some kind of psychological disease. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#humor #mental #responsibility #humor

Stand in your own two shoes. ↗

— T. Scott McLeod

#empowering-beliefs #empowerment #responsibility #self-responsibility #self-belief

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#absolutely #accepting #every #feel #happiest

In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it. ↗

— Barack Obama

#change #civic-responsibility #patriotism #trial #change