Irresponsibility Quotes

When we begin to set boundaries with people we love, a really hard thing happens: they hurt. They may feel a hole where you used to plug up their aloneness, their disorganization, or their financial irresponsibility. Whatever it is, they will feel a loss. If you love them, this will be difficult for you to watch. But, when you are dealing with someone who is hurting, remember that your boundaries are both necessary for you and helpful for them. If you have been enabling them to be irresponsible, your limit setting may nudge them toward responsibility.

It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a 'dismal science.' But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance.

John von Neumann gave me an interesting idea: that you don't have to be responsible for the world that you're in. So I have developed a very powerful sense of social irresponsibility as a result of von Neumann's advice. It's made me a very happy man ever since. But it was von Neumann who put the seed in that grew into my active irresponsibility!

I don’t see why we have to let a country go Marxist just because its people are irresponsible.

A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.

Are those making these charges better equipped to deal with the Ebola threat than those they castigate? These easy charges, nurtured in hindsight, by people by people who have never had to make decisions or have responsibilities in the matter, play into the national penchant for finger-pointing and feed panic.

The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon. Probably at the next gas station.

Mostly the problems when I was down were caused by myself. There were times when I was not responsible enough or decisive enough.

Using, as an excuse, others' failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.

Vimes's lack of interest in other people's children was limitless.

What the proprietorship of these papers is aiming at is power, and power without responsibility—the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

’Tis the time’s plague when madmen lead the blind.

How many really capable men are children more than once during the day!

A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

You’re not an adult at all - you're just a tall child holding a beer, having conversations you don't understand...

Listen, here it is: Technically, I never quit. I'm seven years late for work.

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

I hate it when people are late, and I hate being late.

A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.

When one is young, one can become distracted and overconfident.

When I was young and irresponsible, I was young and irresponsible.

As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.

I'm sick of all these young people just boogeying around, wasting their lives, you know.