Responsibility Avoidance Quotes

It's a lot easier to let someone else be Caesar.

There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.

I have a natural affinity with children and adults who can't accept adult responsibility.

I'd like to live permanently in October 1988, when I started college. I had no responsibility and the energy to do whatever I wanted. My optimism wasn't dented by experience or low self-esteem.

Being a bureaucrat means never having to say you're sorry.

Don't try to shift your responsibilities on to somebody else.

I'm really not tailored for responsibility.

There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free ourselves from the responsibility for acts which are prompted by our own questionable inclinations and impulses. Both the strong and the weak grasp at this alibi. The latter hide their malevolence under the virtue of obedience: they acted dishonorably because they had to obey orders. The strong, too, claim absolution by proclaiming themselves the chosen instrument of a higher power -- God, history, fate, nation, or humanity.

Excuses sound best to the person that's making 'em up!

Responsibility always stops at the president's desk.

Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.

I don’t want to be that person, who just takes things.

Widespread personification of “society” is another verbal tactic that evades issues of individual responsibility. Such use of the term “society” is a more sophisticated version of the notion that “the devil made me do it.” Like much of the rest of the special vocabulary of the anointed, it is used as a magic word to make choice, behavior, and performance vanish into thin air.

Having a scapegoat means not knowing that we have one.

In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.

I don't deal with the nuts and bolts of life.

The ' pleasure' of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness.

I'd love to be the first one to say this, but it automatically turns into - we all have those responsibilities that we ignore because we don't feel like they're ours.

where everybody is guilty, nobody is.

Men don't want any responsibility, and neither do I.

My interpretation is different. God asks Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?" [Genesis 4:9] And Cain answers "Lo yadati, "I don't know" or "I didn't know." Then comes a period, followed by "Am I my brother's keeper?"

I don't think I was ever responsible for anything being canceled.

Everyone seems to be fleeing from the responsibilities that come from being who you are. I think that is why the blogosphere is thriving. It allows people to develop a fantasy self.

The air will always be to filled with something. Your body too sore or tired. Your father too drunk. Your wife too cold. You will always have some excuse not to live your life.