Quotes About Irresponsibility

#1. Perhaps it suddenly brought to us the sense of change. Or irresponsibility. But don't forget that, though the people in the twenties seemed like flops, they weren't. Fitzgerald, the rest of them, reckless as they were, drinkers as they were, they worked damn hard and all the time.

Dorothy Parker

#2. [I]n America, at least, we have a pretty good record for behaving in a fiscally responsible fashion, with one exception - namely, the fiscal irresponsibility that prevails when, and only when, hard-line conservatives are in power.

Paul Krugman

#3. I suppose the only thing at 50 you can really start to look forward to is just total irresponsibility. As you get older, you can just sit in a chair, wear anything you want, you know you can walk down; old people dress cool. You know they wear sweatpants. The elderly have it down.

Johnny Depp

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

#5. And I told him that a man's life is always dealing with permanence - that the most dangerous kind of irresponsibility is to think of your doings as temporary. That, anyhow, is what I've tried to keep before myself. What you do on the earth, the earth makes permanent.

Wendell Berry

#6. After you finish a book, you know, you're dead. But no one knows you're dead. All they see is the irresponsibility that comes in after the terrible responsibility of writing.

Ernest Hemingway,

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

Wally Amos

#8. Problems arise when people act as if their "boulders" are daily loads, and refuse help, or as if their "daily loads" are boulders they shouldn't have to carry. The results of these two instances are either perpetual pain or irresponsibility.

Henry Cloud

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

David Cronenberg

#10. In a country authored and sustained by criminal irresponsibility.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#11. 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 much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.

Henry A. Kissinger

#12. 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 son, but he can totter with his grandson. Our first and last steps have the same rhythm.

Andre Maurois

#13. Friends, since when has irresponsibility become a Nigerian factor?

Sunday Adelaja

#14. Creative individuals tend to be smart, yet also naive at the same time ... Creative individuals have a combination of playfulness and discipline, or responsibility and irresponsibility.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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

Pauline Kael

#16. Irresponsibility was something which, in the very nature of things, could not co-exist with independence.

C.S. Forester

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

Frederick Herzberg

#18. 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 associated with irresponsibility and irrational thinking.

Adora Svitak

#19. You've called your carelessness love and made a virtue of irresponsibility.

Stephen King

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

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#21. An artist owed a duty to nothing except his own irresponsibility. It was OK for an artist to frolic in the water, no matter how bloody the waves or how high the tide rose. An ethicist had an obligation to drown.

Howard Jacobson

#22. But fantasies are often the best thing we can make of our multiple and contradictory wishes; they allow us to inhabit one reality without destroying the other. Fantasizing spares those we care about from the full irresponsibility and scary strangeness of our urges.

Alain De Botton

#23. 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

#24. There were two unpleasant surprises [about Washington]. One was the inertia of Congress, the length of time it takes to get a complicated piece of legislation through ... and the other was the irresponsibility of the press.

Jimmy Carter

#25. The trouble with traditional American conservatism is that it lacks a naturally cheerful, optimistic disposition. Not only does it lack one, it regards signs of one as evidence of unsoundness, irresponsibility.

Irving Kristol

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

Terri Apter

#27. Caprice and irresponsibility ... .
Those two words sum you up; your whole nature's contained in those
two words.

Ivan Turgenev

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

Bill Crawford

#29. The social havoc wreaked by unfettered economic greed comes to be interiorised as the personal weakness and irresponsibility of those principally affected.

David Smail

#30. Veterans are driven by the same frustrations that the public has with what is happening in Washington ... the fiscal irresponsibility and the financial crisis that our country is facing.

Pete Hegseth

#31. We see then that the principle of sexual autonomy is fundamentally antisocial. It not only retreats from social responsibility; it breeds social irresponsibility.

Anthony M. Esolen

#32. The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it.

Harry Browne

#33. I envied the men. I envied the irresponsibility their surroundings and genitals allowed. I envied the artificial affection they bought. But most of all, I envied that flicker of euphoria they got to feel, like a quick sip of whiskey that warmed their chest and eased their pain.

Maggie Young

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

Andy Stanley

#35. But a great number of educators spoke of "personal responsibility" in a country authored and sustained by a criminal irresponsibility.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#36. I live in an ecotone. Employment must coexist with goofing off. Responsibility must coexist with irresponsibility.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

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

Jacques Delors

#38. What now strikes as remarkable about the new moneyed class of the nineteenth century is their complete irresponsibility;they see everything in terms of individual success, with hardly any consciousness that the community exists.

George Orwell

#39. The welfare state shields people from the consequences of their own mistakes, allowing irresponsibility to continue and to flourish among ever wider circles of people.

Thomas Sowell

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

Orhan Pamuk

#41. The abortion license has not brought freedom and security to women. Rather, it has ushered in a new era of irresponsibility toward women and children, one that now begins before birth.

Robert Casey

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

Noam Chomsky

#43. It is my experience that people who don't participate in society, who don't have jobs, who don't have friends, are just very stuck in irresponsibility and cultism and all kinds of nonsense.

Frederick Lenz

#44. 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 of flagrant social irresponsibility. Now as then, business has shed its collective responsibility for employees - just as government has for its citizens.

Charles Derber

#45. We often blame our government for their lack of responsibility, socially and politically. We forget that that is only a result of the societal irresponsibility in general.

Sunday Adelaja

#46. The search for liberation is a rejection of the responsibilities of freedom in favor of a release into the irresponsibility of rights. And a right is irresponsible because it is a legally entrenched liberty that does not contain within itself the limitations instinctive in a free society.

Kenneth Minogue

#47. The Iliad represents no creed nor opinion, and we read it with a rare sense of freedom and irresponsibility, as if we trod on native ground, and were autochthones of the soil.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Marlon Brando

#49. 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

#50. There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage ... between compromise - even calculated risk - and irresponsibility and capitulation.

Ehud Barak

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

Ambrose Bierce

#52. What Paul is saying is that when we "do church," we are to do it in a proper and fitting manner. There should be order, not chaos. There should be sensibility, not insensitivity. There should be consistency, not discord. There should be guidance, not irresponsibility.

Robert H. Welch

#53. But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.

Erwin Rommel

#54. 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

#55. You have accused me of upsetting order by my free drinks, and I have showed you that there is a more dreadful fermentation in the Sermon on the Mount than in my beer-barrels. Christ thought it in the irresponsibility of His omnipotence.

W.B.Yeats

#56. You have to resist unfaithfulness and irresponsibility

Sunday Adelaja

#57. We live in an era of organized irresponsibility.

Otto Scharmer

#58. 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, incompetence and corruption.

Anthony Zinni

#59. There is a lot of willful irresponsibility in electrical utility companies.

Steven Magee

#60. Apparently the only people who are supposed to be responsible are the taxpayers - and they are increasingly made responsible for other people's irresponsibility.

Thomas Sowell

#61. The United States can no longer rely upon foreign nations such as China to bail us out of our economic irresponsibility. We must live within our means and implement creative, free-market solutions to put Americans back in jobs and to create economic opportunities.

Pete Sessions

#62. If you protect your children from the pain of irresponsibility, you set them up for many struggles in adulthood.

Henry Cloud

#63. Modernity starts with the state monopoly on violence, and ends with the state's monopoly on fiscal irresponsibility.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

Tony Kushner

#65. What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid all its perfumed and hypnotic inducements to mate, a tireless tribe of spirochetes and viruses that torture and kill us for following orders?

John Updike

#66. The Reagan-Bush years have exalted private gain over public obligation, special interests over the common good, wealth and fame over work and family. The 1980s ushered in a Gilded Age of greed and selfishness, of irresponsibility and excess, and of neglect.

William J. Clinton

#67. When I was a child? Only the nostalgia for those days of utter, absolute irresponsibility, now long gone. But for her (and this she would never have admitted to anyone), those days weren't gone at all. She still felt totally irresponsible.

Francoise Sagan

#68. The frontier in space, embodied in the space colony, is one in which the interactions between humans and their environment is so much more sensitive and interactive and less tolerant of irresponsibility than it is on the whole surface of the Earth.

Rusty Schweickart

#69. Your responsibility is your accurate response to the ability within you, when you respond less accurately than the ability you have it becomes irresponsibility.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#70. You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible.

Thomas Sowell

#71. In a liberal scientific society, to claim that you are above error is the height of irresponsibility.

Jonathan Rauch

#72. Since when has irresponsibility and lack of accountability in public service become a Nigerian factor?

Sunday Adelaja

#73. Now that I know you're okay, what bothers me most is your irresponsibility. I have no idea what's gotten into you.
I do, she wanted to say. He's around six-two, heavily tattooed and fucks like a god.

Cherrie Lynn

#74. Humanism is the affirmation of man as a free and responsible being. Nothing degrades man more than the proclamation of irresponsibility. Man is responsible, animals and things are not.

Alija Izetbegovic

#75. We have complete choice as individuals: the only decisions we can take are our own. And yet so many species use the state of being an individual as an excuse for inaction, helplessness and irresponsibility.No situation is so overwhelming that action is pointless.
Targassat of Surang.

Karen Traviss

#76. He seems to me to be headed for his ideal fate, which is compulsive psychosis dashed with a jigger of psychopathic irresponsibility and violence

Jack Kerouac

#77. I am one of the most irresponsible beings that ever lived. Irresponsibility is part of my invisibility; any way you face it, it is a denial. But to whom can I be responsible, and why should I be, when you refuse to see me?

Ralph Ellison

#78. Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical, sentimental irresponsibility and when it is a valid expression of our deepest desires and values.

Helen Lynd

#79. But anybody who's never had delirium tremens even in their early stages may not understand that it's not so much a physical pain but a mental anguish indescribable to those ignorant people who dont drink and accuse drinkers of irresponsibility.

Jack Kerouac

#80. 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 and attitudes of impotent irresponsibility on the other.

Henry A. Kissinger

#81. 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 of my own sense of irresponsibility.

Bronislaw Malinowski

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

Jack London

#83. To dispense knowledge without moral guidance would be grossly irresponsible.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#84. Nationalism is an infantile thing. It is the measles of mankind.

Albert Einstein

#85. The devil may not be interested in preventing you from knowing the undone job. What he may do is to make you think it's somebody's job and not yours.

Israelmore Ayivor

#86. When people who remember her better than me talk of her, she is always described as headstrong and irresponsible, which, if you think about it, are just different words for untameable. The wind is untameable, and so are rivers, and there is something poetic in that.

Claire Wong