Dick Gregory Quotes

The tradition of our Navy mandates that senior officials bear the ultimate responsibility for their command.

If words of command are not clear and distinct, if orders are not thoroughly understood, the general is to blame.

You learn in the pros that errors can be costly.

As a real estate investor, you're ultimately accountable to you and your checkbook. Of course, you will need to stay on top of your local coding regulations and ordinances. But once you get the hang of it, you really shouldn't have any problems with ordinances.

I just can't. I'm married. I made my bed and now I have to lie in it.

Listen to what I tell you and do it. If you do, three things can happen: One, it will work and you'll get credit. Two, it won't work and I'll get the blame. Three, you'll do it wrong and you'll be gone.

If a man….who’s playing in front of the public, is being well paid, and he doesn’t dedicate himself to the job, I’d be hard on him. If I could I would put him in jail, out of the road of society. Because he’s a menace

The Navy has a custom-if a ship runs aground, the captain is relieved regardless of who is responsible. That's how Abu Ghraib should be handled.

The plea of ignorance will never take away our responsibilities.

The mistakes you make now count. Not for everything, and not forever. But they do matter, and they shape you.If you take nothing else from what I've been through, at least remember this: make your choices well. Because you'll always be accountable for them. That's what being an adult is all about.

We are not free to break our covenants and escape the consequences.

A good banker isn't careless with pennies; a good leader isn't sloppy about details.

To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning.

You can be free from everything but the consequences of what you do.

Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

Pay what you owe and you'll know what's your own.

In order not to be misunderstood, I want it perfectly clear that I believe it is incumbent on us to conduct our lives in a way that takes into account all the consequences of our actions, including the consequences to other people, and the consequences to the environment.

I don't want to mess up my life. You only get one shot. I don't want to let my fans or anybody else down. So, I always think before I act. And as long as I do that, I'll be okay.

When the deeds that you do don't add up to zero.

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.

Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.

War crimes will be prosecuted. War criminals will be punished. And it will be no defense to say, 'I was just following orders.'

People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences; in fact it was just the opposite.

It must be the ultimate punishment, don't you think, to finally gain wisdom, only to realize that the consequences of your actions are irrevocable?