Lack of Responsibility Quotes

I hate committing myself to anything. It's probably the lack of discipline, honestly. I'm probably a spoiled brat worried about getting my way every time.

It is in the nature of political bodies always to see the evil in the opposite group, just as the individual has an ineradicable tendency to get rid of everything he does not know and does not want to know about himself by foisting it off on somebody else. Nothing has a more diverse and alienating effect upon society than this moral complacency and lack of responsibility, and nothing promotes understanding and rapprochement more than the mutual withdrawal of projections.

Those who have the power and should be the most responsible are often the least responsible.

I never had to grow up. Everybody did everything for me. I was the first generation in my family to have money, and I had no idea what to do.

The man gave a shrug which indicated that, although the world did indeed have many problems, this was one of them that was not his.

Jesse ain't running nothin' but his mouth.

Some people prefer the passenger role, because it imposes no real pressure to decide or stand accountable for their life results.

It's easy being vice president - you don't have to do anything.

Under the Bush administration, openness and accountability have been replaced by secrecy and evasion of responsibility. They abuse their power, conceal their actions from the American people, and refuse to hold officials accountable.

Letting someone else take the blame ... every politician does that if they can, every politician.

The joy of being a consumer is that it doesn't require thought, responsibility, self-awareness or shame: All you have to do is obey the first urge that gurgles up from your stomach. And then obey the next. And the next. And the next.

If my advice is lost on the wind and you will not do as I wish, then I do not recognize you as my son…. I see that you go at too lazy a pace in these crucial days to concern yourself with business…. I grow worried when I see you, the heir to the throne, who are so very useless for the conduct of state affairs….How often have I not scolded you for this, and not merely scolded you but beaten you... but nothing has succeeded, nothing is any use, all is to no purpose, all is words spoken to the wind, and you want to do nothing but sit at home and enjoy yourself….But if you do not change for the better, understand that I shall deprive you of the succession and cast you off like a gangrened limb.

He didn't have to worry about the music, because he wasn't doing any of it. Eazy was a blessed dude.

And after all this time that you still owe, you're still a good-for nothing I don't know.

What type of 'person' is the for-profit corporation? A spoiled brat - all rights and no responsibilities, a traditional conservative argument would say.

I've got four dogs, and I just don't do dog doo. I'm a diva when it comes to that.

A person who has been seduced by the consumer value system, whose identity is dissolved in an amalgam of the accouterments trappings of mass civilization, and who has no roots in the order of being, no sense of responsibility for anything higher than his own personal survival, is a demoralized person. The system depends on this demoralization, deepens it, is in fact a projection of it into society.

Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.

Because I have a dog, it's easier to work at home: I sit in a horrible weird 'Mastermind'-style chair and bask in my own mediocrity. Being single, I've no family life to distract me at the end of the day. Apart from taking the dog for a walk, I have no other responsibilities.

People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves.

When you abandon making choices, you enter the vast world of excuses.

I think probably the one trait that would concern me about brother Bing would be his lack of responsibility.

The beauty of HTML was that one-way linking made it very simple to spread because you could put something up and take no responsibility whatsoever. And that creates a society in which people display no responsibility whatsoever. That's the problem.

The degradation of our environment is undeniably a direct result of our lack of regard, lack of accountability, and lack of responsibility.

Everyone aimed at security: no one accepted responsibility. What was plainly lacking, long before the barbarian invasions had done their work, long before economic dislocations became serious, was inner go. Rome’s life was now an imitation of life: a mere holding on. Security was the watchword – as if life knew any other stability than through constant change, or any form of security except through a constant willingness to take risks