Irresponsible Quotes

• It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.

  Tony Blair

  Government, Priorities, Arrogant

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• The press is so powerful in its image-making role, it can make the criminal look like he's a the victim and make the victim look like he's the criminal. This is the press, an irresponsible press. It will make the criminal look like he's the victim and make the victim look like he's the criminal. If you aren't careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

  Malcolm X

  Powerful, Hate, Media Control

  Malcolm X's speech at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem (December 13, 1964) as quoted in "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements" edited by George Breitman (p. 93), 1965.

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• There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Men, Addiction, Fear And Loathing

  "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream".

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• A warrior is free to be a hero and pull off daring do and the soldier is irresponsible if he does it.

  C. J. Cherryh

  Hero, Warrior, Soldier

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• Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it.

  John C. Calhoun

  Exercise, Liberty, Inconsistent

  JOHN C. CALHOUN (1855). “REPORTS AND PUBLIC LETTERS”, p.29

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• Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspiring, Responsible, Being Responsible

  1950 Radio broadcast, 26 Aug.

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• I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.

  Boyd Rice

  Anger, Thinking, Rights

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• The third group [of society] are those irresponsible and reckless ones having little regard for the consequences of their acts, or whose religious scruples prevent their exercising control over their numbers. Many of this group are diseased, feeble-minded, and are of the pauper element dependent upon the normal and fit members of society for their support. There is no doubt in the minds of all thinking people that the procreation of this group should be stopped.

  Margaret Sanger

  Religious, Exercise, Thinking

  The Morality of Birth Control, delivered 18 November 1921, Park Theatre, NY

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• It is the individual's task to differentiate himself from all the others and stand on his own feet. All collective identities . . . interfere with the fulfillment of this task. Such collective identities are crutches for the lame, shields for the timid, beds for the lazy, nurseries for the irresponsible. . . .

  Carl Jung

  Feet, Lazy, Individuality

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• There is never finality in the display terminal's screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the touch of a key. The significance of the past, as expressed in the manuscript by a deleted word or an inserted correction, is annulled in idle gusts of electronic massacre.

  Alexander Cockburn

  Past, Keys, Massacres

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• To go against gangs or drugs is meaningless unless this is mostly done by filling in the empties, the vacuums, and stop the neglect and harm we do as detached, mean, irresponsible adults and communities. The answer is in our hands.

  Luis J. Rodriguez

  Mean, Hands, Community

  Elvira Carrizal-Dukes, www.epl.org. June 29, 2011.

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• I've met many irresponsible people in my life but never an irresponsible cat.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Cat, People, Mets

  "What We Can Learn From Animals" by Rita Mae Brown, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• To me, I think people who don't think it's a big deal to toss a plastic bottle in the garbage are not only being irresponsible, but I think they're being disrespectful of all the other humans on earth.

  Sophia Bush

  Thinking, People, Bottles

  "Do Something Awards 2011: Sophia Bush Explains Why She Fights for the Environment" by by Sophie Schillaci, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 15, 2011.

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• The fairytale is irresponsible; it is frankly imaginary, and its purpose is to gratify wishes, as a dream doth flatter.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Dream, Wish, Purpose

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• Girls think that being glamorous means making mistakes and being irresponsible. And that's just not true.

  Danica McKellar

  Girl, Mistake, Mean

  "Person of the Week: Danica McKellar". abcnews.go.com. August 10, 2007.

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• I wake up around noon, light a cigarette, get a cup of coffee, sit in the bathtub for an hour and daydream, and I usually come up with some ideas... It's a very irresponsible life. The only decisions I make are about the notes I'm writing.

  Hans Zimmer

  Coffee, Writing, Light

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When people abuse these freedoms to enrich themselves at the expense of others, then the public will demand the government to step in. That is how government grows, and how freedom is diminished.... When financial meltdowns occur, the public's outrage drives government to take over part of the private sector. When the government does so, it replaces irresponsible executives with unaccountable bureaucrats. That takes us out of the frying pan and into the fire.

  Ken Blackwell

  Fire, Government, People

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• We should pledge ourselves to the proposition that the irresponsible life is not worth living.

  Thomas Szasz

  Life Is, Should, Cognitive Therapy

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1989). “Law, Liberty, and Psychiatry: An Inquiry Into the Social Uses of Mental Health Practices”, p.255, Syracuse University Press

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• The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.

  Joseph Conrad

  Power, Sea, Generosity

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “The Mirror of the Sea”, p.118, Xist Publishing

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• I was kind of like chasing my tail and trying to do the right thing, and was a little bit stupid. Or irresponsible, which is the same thing I guess. It's just been really busy and I had a lot of great opportunities.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Stupid, Opportunity, Trying

  "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - Robert Downey Jr interview". IndieLondon interview, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• There are a lot of little tricks you can do to inject a bit more time into the day. Most important is limiting yourself to a 40 hour week, not working 50 hours or 60 or 70. It's just crazy. It's actually irresponsible to you and irresponsible to your family and friends. Why should your employer's profits be more important than your own family? You're not even going to get any of the profits - all you get is not losing your job. It's a very negative system.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Jobs, Crazy, Important

  "How To Be Idle: An Interview with Tom Hodgkinson". Interview with Katie Renz, www.motherjones.com. June 8, 2005.

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• A coach is often responsible to an irresponsible public.

  Robert Zuppke

  Responsible, Coaches

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• Pacifism in the face of war is not only irresponsible - it is immoral. Refusing to meet force with force in the name of peace will beget not peace, but further death and destruction, the very violence the pacifists seek to avoid.

  David Limbaugh

  Peace, War, Names

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• The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written you have to stand by it. You may have said it to see whether you believed it or not.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Fun, May, Should

  Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.115, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• To believe something in the face of evidence and against reason - to believe something by faith - is ignoble, irresponsible and ignorant, and merits the opposite of respect.

  A.C. Grayling

  Believe, Opposites, Ignorant

  A.C. Grayling (2012). “Against All Gods: Six Polemics on Religion and an Essay on Kindness”, p.8, Oberon Books

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