Quotes About Avoiding Responsibility

#1. Because blaming our behavior on forces outside ourselves is a way of avoiding responsibility.

James Redfield

#2. Here we have some people who call themselves Christians and they forget Jesus Christ was a Jew. Something like anti-Semitism is an artificial way of avoiding responsibility. You blame the problems in your country on someone else, on some group.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#3. It's always seemed to me that flirtation is a man's device for avoiding responsibility. He can say whatever he wants and knows he won't be taken seriously.

G.G. Vandagriff

#4. Baseball is a rookie, his experience no bigger than the lump in his throat as he begins fulfillment of his dream.

Ernie Harwell

#5. Many dogs will give a greeting grin much like a human smile.

Richard A. Clarke

#6. No, that was my privilege.

Dodie Smith

#7. For years, reality has been nipping at the heels of satire. Now, it's finally caught up. I don't need to make this stuff up.

Paul Krassner

#8. The reason he wouldn't be drawn into political or even theological debate was that he was indifferent to other people's opinions and felt no urge to engage with or oppose them.

Ian McEwan

#9. The best prose is written by authors who see their universe with a poet's eyes.

Vera Brittain

#10. Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion; it is a business of meeting obligations or avoiding them. To every man the choice is continually being offered, and by the manner of his choosing you may fairly measure him.

Ben Ames Williams

#11. I've changed a lot, too! I'm different, too. I have far more in some ways to offer and far less in other ways to offer. That's life. And, you know, life goes on!

Elaine Stritch

#12. Addictions always originate in pain, whether felt openly or hidden in the unconscious. They are emotional anesthetics. Heroin and cocaine, both powerful physical painkillers, also ease psychological discomfort.

Gabor Mate

#13. Animal hoarding was a dirty secret until hoarders appeared on our TV screens and showed how they are compelled to collect so many dogs, cats or parrots that the animals end up in cages only inches bigger than their own bodies. For life.

Ingrid Newkirk