Jack McDevitt Quotes

We are responsible not only for what we do but also for what we could have prevented.

Who can protest and does not, is an accomplice in the act.

There is no shame in black athletes not wanting to be role models, but there should be shame when they don't behave like one. It's a free country and people can do whatever they want. But just because we can doesn't mean we should.

We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.

My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

If we sit by and become complacent and put our heads in the sand, we're complicit.

A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

I want to know what he did and who he failed.

If you sit on the sidelines [and not vote], you are responsible for what happens.

No man ought to be condemned for exhorting people to pursue justice in a certain line, though he may foresee that in the pursuit of that justice the opposition given to those who are proceeding in a just course may produce collision, and that collision lead to the commission of crime; but our duty, as I conceive, is to seek for the injustice, and there to impute the crime… It is to that injustice, and not to those who pursue a just course for the attainment of a right end, that the guilt is to be ascribed.

If I do bad, shoot me.

Anybody that has had a brush with what feels like undiluted evil often ends up asking themselves the same questions - whether it's something that was a consequence of their own actions or actions that were taken against them or actions that they were caught up in.

I shall claim full amends for every fall and stubbed toe, if you do not lead us well.

Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.

There is an expectation that we can talk about sins but no one must be identified as a sinner.

Inaction counted as a choice.

You can't run a society or cope with its problems if people are not held accountable for what they do.

That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.

It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts.

You think it doesn't really matter if you screw up this time around because you can just sort it all out in paradise

The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of sin.

We cannot withdraw our cards from the game. Were we as silent and mute as stones, our very passivity would be an act.

Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all! Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none: And some condemned for a fault alone.

You have to recognise your responsibility to your community for your actions. Liberty doesn't mean that you are not held accountable. Without accountability, there can be no freedom. I know it seems like a paradox.