Irresponsibility Quotes · Page 2

We live in an era of organized irresponsibility.

— Otto Scharmer

The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it.

— Harry Browne

There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility.

— Tony Kushner

“Responsible government is an off shoot of a culture of personal responsibility.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it.

— John C. Calhoun

“Mental illness is an illness , not an excuse for irresponsibility .”

— Talitha Day Fair

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

— Anonymous

TABLE D'HOTE, n. A caterer's thrifty concession to the universal passion for irresponsibility.

— Ambrose Bierce

Irresponsibility breeds irresponsibility. The finances of government are so central. You'd think that would be pretty obvious.

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility.

— Orhan Pamuk

“Your responsibility is your accurate response to the ability within you, when you respond less accurately than the ability you have it…

— Agu Jaachynma N.E

The abortion license has not brought freedom and security to women. Rather, it has ushered in a new era of irresponsibility toward…

— Robert Casey

Tutelage is a comfortable relationship for the senior partner, but it is demoralizing in the long run. It breeds illusions of omniscience…

— Henry A. Kissinger

Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical, sentimental irresponsibility and when it is a valid expression…

— Helen Lynd

The United States can no longer rely upon foreign nations such as China to bail us out of our economic irresponsibility. We…

— Pete Sessions

Veterans are driven by the same frustrations that the public has with what is happening in Washington... the fiscal irresponsibility and the…

— Pete Hegseth

After the first International Days of Protest in October, 1965, Senator Mansfield criticized the 'sense of utter irresponsibility' shown by the demonstrators.

— Noam Chomsky

If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge.

— James S. Coleman

Many guys see relationships with women as a zero-sum game: If she wins, he loses. Marriage is the ultimate contest: Her job…

— Michael Kimmel

In five days, you can turn the page on policies that put greed and irresponsibility on Wall Street before the hard work…

— Barack Obama

Euripides seems to have felt that the dignified perfection of Sophocles could be challenged only by novelty and irresponsibility. The religious conditions…

— Laura Riding

Today, as in the Gilded Age, we live in a world where a morality of personal responsibility rubs shoulders with a culture…

— Charles Derber

[T]he democratic principle of "one man, one vote," viewed against a background of voting masses numbering several millions, only serves to demonstrate…

— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

In Islam there is a line between let's say freedom and the line which is then transgressed into immorality and irresponsibility and…

— Cat Stevens

The technological overflow from scientific research has brought scientific research this bad name about carrying an irresponsibility and an alienation from God…

— George Coyne

No one can learn tolerance in a climate of irresponsibility, which does not produce democracy. The act of tolerating requires a climate…

— Paulo Freire

The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility.

— Jacques Delors

“Those who want to sink will surely seek and find an impending shipwreck. - On Human Stupidity.”

— Lamine Pearlheart

The complete irresponsibility of man for his actions and his nature is the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its own…

— Henry A. Kissinger

The four pillars of wisdom that support journalistic endeavors are: lies, stupidity, money-grubbing, and ethical irresponsibility.

— Marlon Brando

Idleness, indifference and irresponsibility are healthy responses to absurd work.

— Frederick Herzberg

Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.

— Anonymous

His bondage had softened him. Irresponsibility had weakened him. He had forgotten how to shift for himself. The night yawned about him.

— Jack London

The artist's duty to himself is a combination of immense responsibility and immense irresponsibility. I think those two interlock.

— David Cronenberg

There are two reasons why people fail. One is irresponsibility. The second is fear.

— Wally Amos

...often, stepping outside your comfort zone is not careless irresponsibility, but a necessary act of obedience.

— Andy Stanley

“...irresponsibility was something which, in the very nature of things, could not co-exist with independence.”

— C.S. Forester

“There is so much woman in many a girl and too much boy in many a man.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You never want to tie your responsibility to another's irresponsibility.

— Bill Crawford