Irresponsibility Quotes

59 Irresponsibility quotes by 57 unique authors

In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse, lying,… — Anthony Zinni
The magnificent title of the Functional School of Anthropology has been bestowed on myself, in a way on myself, and to a large extent out… — Bronislaw Malinowski
Tutelage is a comfortable relationship for the senior partner, but it is demoralizing in the long run. It breeds illusions of omniscience on one side… — Henry A. Kissinger
There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage... between compromise - even calculated risk - and irresponsibility and… — Ehud Barak
The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility. — Jacques Delors
Today, as in the Gilded Age, we live in a world where a morality of personal responsibility rubs shoulders with a culture of greed and… — Charles Derber
The artist's duty to himself is a combination of immense responsibility and immense irresponsibility. I think those two interlock. — David Cronenberg
Irresponsibility, cowardice, personal vanity, whining and chaos are becoming the maxims of political action. There is a stink in Berlin - a huge one! — Edmund Stoiber
This writer, who is horribly perspicacious and vigorous, demonstrates the certainty of a great European war, and regards it with the peculiar satisfaction excited by… — George Gissing
I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are… — Henry A. Kissinger
There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility. — Tony Kushner
But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility. — Erwin Rommel
The traits the word 'childish' addresses are seen so often in adults that we should abolish this age-discriminatory word when it comes to criticizing behavior… — Adora Svitak
That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. Our nation is at war, against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred.… — Barack Obama
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 absurd man will not commit suicide; he wants to live, without relinquishing any of his certainty, without a future, without hope, without illusions …… — Jean-Paul Sartre
A man's life is always dealing with permanence, that is the most dangerous kind of irresponsibility is to think of your doings as temporary. — Wendell Berry
The obscenities of this country are not girls like you. It is the poverty which is obscene, and the criminal irresponsibility of the leaders who… — F. Sionil JosÃ©
Exasperation with the threefold frustration of action -- the unpredictability of its outcome, the irreversibility of the process, and the anonymity of its authors --… — Hannah Arendt
The complete irresponsibility of man for his actions and his nature is the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow. — Friedrich Nietzsche
On the way from the Renaissance to our days we have enriched our experience, but we have lost the concept of a Supreme Complete Entity… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
...often, stepping outside your comfort zone is not careless irresponsibility, but a necessary act of obedience. — Andy Stanley
Being single is pretty good. It's a nice sense of irresponsibility. — Michael Douglas
An old man, having retired from active life, regains the gaity and irresponsibility of childhood. He is ready to play, he cannot run with his… — Andre Maurois
Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility. — Orhan Pamuk

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