Quote by Moli

It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do for which we are accountable.

It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do for wh

Summary

This quote implies that our actions and our inactions both carry the weight of responsibility. It suggests that while we may consciously choose to take certain actions, we must also acknowledge the consequences and accountability for the things we choose not to do or neglect to do. It emphasizes that our inaction can have just as profound an impact and hold us just as accountable as our deliberate actions.

Topics

By Moli

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

A conception not reducible to the small change of daily expe

A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption it is not a symbol, but a fraud.

George Santayana

It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south ce

It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.

Forest Whitaker

It was 100 feet of 16 mm black-and-white film of a car comin

It was 100 feet of 16 mm black-and-white film of a car coming to a stop sign, and driving off. I had to decide how to frame and light it. It was magic. There was a sense of mystery.

'Star Wars' is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and peo

'Star Wars' is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It's what they want.

I know in my own marriage I stayed in it to provide my son w

I know in my own marriage I stayed in it to provide my son with what I thought was a stable background and to give him what I thought was the family life a child should have with two parents. But that isn't always the best way, and it took me taking my son to therapy after the divorce to really see it.

May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixe

May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best -- out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters.

I learned you have to fight for yourself in the picture busi

I learned you have to fight for yourself in the picture business.

I've always had questions about what it meant to be a protes

I've always had questions about what it meant to be a protester, to be in the minority. Are the people who are trying to find peace, who are trying to have the Constitution apply to everybody, are they really the radicals? We're not protesting from the outside. We're inside.

Gil Scott-Heron

What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page.

What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no

Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.

Frank Moore Colby

That's really what science is just trying to figure stuff ou

That's really what science is just trying to figure stuff out, and I like figuring stuff out.