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Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it. -- John C. Calhoun
For thousands of years, you humans have been throwing in everything as you come across--hopes, dreams, wishes that never came true. Irresponsible waste management, if you ask me. -- Rick Riordan
It's all about love. We're either in love, dreaming about love, recovering from it, wishing for it or reflecting on it. That's what this record [Call Me Irresponsible] is about. -- Michael Buble
Gossip is irresponsible communication. Irresponsible because it is at the expense of another person who is not there to defend herself. Irresponsible because it is not constructive: it helps no one, least of all the person being gossiped about. -- Rita Mae Brown
I believe the media pretty much dictates the way relationships are handled, even in the way we handle ourselves. Abuse, cheating, threesomes, it's inspired by music and television. Irresponsible artists and writers with a hidden agenda, just working against the moral fabric that God intended for us to have. -- Tony Gaskins
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I've met many irresponsible people in my life but never an irresponsible cat. -- Rita Mae Brown
War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder. -- Alexander Berkman
I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible. -- Orson Welles
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong. -- Winston Churchill
There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge. -- Hunter S. Thompson
It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose. -- Tony Blair
I know that in my past I was young and irresponsible - but that's what growing up is. You learn from your mistakes. -- Lindsay Lohan
Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances then you'll never have a winning hand, and I've no regrets. -- Bernard Cornwell
The insatiable need for heartless power and ruthless control is the telltale sign of an uninitiated man - the most irresponsible, incompetent and destructive force on earth. -- Michael Leunig
It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed. -- Walter Benjamin
If you destroy the credibility of those people or institutions that could undermine your own, you create an opportunity for your voice, however irresponsible or misleading it may be, to gain traction. -- John Yarmuth
The mainstream media spins stories that are largely racist, violent, and irresponsible - stories that celebrate power and demonize victims, all the while camouflaging its pedagogical influence under the cheap veneer of entertainment. -- Henry Giroux
Governments are out of control, irresponsible, never have enough money, never tighten their own belts, and when they are forced to, they always threaten to shut down police departments and teachers and all these things. -- Rush Limbaugh
Every woman needs one man in her life who is strong and responsible. Given this security, she can proceed to do what she really wants to do-fall in love with men who are weak and irresponsible. -- Richard J. Needham
Knowledge is power. Most of us agree that something has to be done to strengthen Social Security, and I believe it's irresponsible to arbitrarily dismiss any idea, Republican nor Democrat, without giving it a hard look. -- Conrad Burns
I think it's irresponsible when celebrities imply they're doing it all themselves. My son has aunties and uncles around all the time, and my husband is my hero. He's really full-on. I couldn't do it any other way. -- Alanis Morissette
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
The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt. -- Larry Elder
Many writers, including myself, have detailed how irresponsible government actions slow economic recoveries. Similar behavior by individuals impedes growth, too. If you can't find someone reliable to do a deal with, you simply don't do the deal at all. -- Amity Shlaes
You're an actor, are you? Well, all that means is: you are irresponsible, irrational, romantic, and incapable of handling an adult emotion or a universal concept without first reducing it to something personal, material, sensational - and probably sexual! -- George Herman
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.
We must wake up to the insane reality of our time. We are all irresponsible, unless we demand from the responsible decision makers that modern armaments must no longer be made available to people whose former battle axes and swords our ancestors condemned. -- Thor Heyerdahl
The Republican argument that raising the debt ceiling encourages additional future spending is logically irresponsible. The debt ceiling has to be raised to authorize spending already approved by Congress. Despite that fallacy, the GOP has been able to score political points with its argument. -- Eliot Spitzer
What I learned at that moment on the subway 30 years ago, staring at my blank passport, was this: If you have an impulse to do something, and it's not totally irresponsible, why not do it? It might just be the journey you've always needed. -- Timothy Hutton
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All racists are irresponsible. -- James A. Baldwin
Gossip is irresponsible communication. -- Rita Mae Brown
He laughed like an irresponsible foetus. -- T. S. Eliot
Idiot! Lunatic! Moron! Jackass! Selfish irresponsible fool! -- Stephenie Meyer
Myths are seldom simple, and never irresponsible. -- Robert Graves
Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible. -- Lois McMaster Bujold
A consistently highly creative person is generally irresponsible. -- Theodore Levitt
The master's irresponsible power has no such bound. -- Fanny Kemble
To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster. -- Robert A. Heinlein
A coach is often responsible to an irresponsible public. -- Robert Zuppke
To dispense knowledge without moral guidance would be grossly irresponsible. -- Wayne Gerard Trotman
Ignorance might be bliss, but it's irresponsible and dangerous too. -- Robyn Carr
I can't forgive a woman who is irresponsible and dishonest -- Lee Taemin
I may be irresponsible but I am a good irresponsible. -- Nicholas Sparks
When I was young and irresponsible, I was young and irresponsible. -- George W. Bush
Whenever possible, the left and the Democrats have de-stigmatized irresponsible behavior. -- Dennis Prager
Be childish. Be irresponsible. Be disrespectful. Be everything this society hates. -- Malcolm Mclaren
It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions. -- Steve Earle
It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater. -- Edward Albee
Confronting an irresponsible person is not painful to him; only consequences are. -- Henry Cloud
The greatest menace to the world today is the growing, exploiting, irresponsible imperialism. -- Mahatma Gandhi
In the newspapers there is insulting and stirring up hatred. Those irresponsible daubers! -- Joseph Goebbels
The education cuts in the President's budget are both irresponsible and morally unjustifiable. -- Chaka Fattah
Anyone who says the Republicans have been irresponsible aren't looking at the facts. -- Jim DeMint
Many black men leave because they are financially responsible--not because they are emotionally irresponsible. -- Warren Farrell
Disinformation about the state of climate change science is extraordinarily if not criminally irresponsible... -- Donald Brown
I personally do not believe I'm irresponsible. Everything I do revolves around my children. -- Nadya Suleman
If you want irresponsible politicians to spend less, you must give them less to spend. -- Irwin Schiff
We should pledge ourselves to the proposition that the irresponsible life is not worth living. -- Thomas Szasz
There are level-headed actors and outlandish actors and financially responsible actors and financially irresponsible actors. -- Rob McClure
People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish... but that's only if it's done properly. -- Banksy
Girls think that being glamorous means making mistakes and being irresponsible. And that's just not true. -- Danica McKellar
I think pot should be legalized, but I think the promotion of party culture is irresponsible. -- Krist Novoselic
One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it. -- Rollo May
As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don't recognize those notions, they're for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists. -- Gilles Deleuze
We think there is an ecological problem, but the real problem is irresponsible growth of human population. -- Jaggi Vasudev
My father had no influence on my political beliefs, and to imply otherwise is wrong and irresponsible. -- M.I.A.
I think it would be absolutely reckless and irresponsible for anyone to try and break up Microsoft. -- Steve Ballmer
As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes. -- Woodrow Wilson
Not to dream more boldly may turn out to be, in view of present realities, simply irresponsible. -- George Leonard
A management decision is irresponsible if it risks disaster this year for the sake of a grandiose future. -- Peter Drucker
Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk -- Margaret Chase Smith
I haven't been faithful to my wife. Our marriage has been tainted with my infidelities. I was irresponsible. -- David Boreanaz
Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. -- Margaret Chase Smith
Every high C accurately struck demolishes the theory that we are the irresponsible puppets of fate or chance. -- W. H. Auden
If one's patriotism is merely instinctive it is irrational and irresponsible, and consequently a danger to one's country. -- Paul Monroe
The imposition of anomalous models and lifestyles are alien to people's identity and, in the end, are irresponsible. -- Pope Francis
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Give no answer to contentious arguments or irresponsible accusations. Let such things "fly out open windows" until they spend themselves. -- Stephen Covey
What I've witnessed, managers are divisive and allow musicians to become clouded, irresponsible, and unaware of the world around them. -- Jacob Bannon
The fairytale is irresponsible; it is frankly imaginary, and its purpose is to gratify wishes, as a dream doth flatter. -- Susanne Katherina Langer
I'm super down with being irresponsible. I'm just trying to make sure my lack of responsibility no longer hurts people. -- Ezra Miller
All nations that have nuclear weapons think that they are responsible and it is the other guys who are irresponsible. -- Joseph Cirincione
I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible. -- Boyd Rice
I think we will work our way towards a position that says that having more than two children is irresponsible. -- Jonathon Porritt
I was doing sketches that were funny but socially irresponsible. I felt I was deliberately being encouraged and I was overwhelmed. -- Dave Chappelle
What is socially irresponsible, once again, is just all my opinion. But there are things that I don't think are cool. -- India.Arie
I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep. -- Joni Mitchell
Limiting birth by artificial means is an absurdly wrong step. The consequences of this act are irresponsible fatherhood or frustrated motherhood. -- Sathya Sai Baba
I'm a terribly irresponsible eater - I love soft-boiled eggs and chocolate. I never met a chocolate I could not eat. -- Danielle Steel
If you decide that you cannot beat a temptation, what you are really doing is giving yourself permission to be irresponsible. -- Gary Zukav
In a culture that gives men irresponsible power and women powerless responsibility, the advancement of civilization cannot be a serious goal. -- Mary Blakely
The right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well. -- Bono
It would seem that the more irresponsible and crafty one is, the more likely one is to have a talent for storytelling. -- Osamu Dazai
WikiLeaks is irritating and annoying for Germany, but not a threat. From an international perspective, I see their actions as totally irresponsible. -- Thomas de Maiziere
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
The technology [semiconductors] which has transformed practical existence is largely an application of what was discovered by these allegedly irresponsible [natural] philosophers. -- Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error. -- Karl Popper
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action. -- George Washington
A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes. -- Ray Stannard Baker
For more irresponsible that human beings can be, nature always finds (not always healthy) a way to teach us how to be treated. -- Da Anunciação Marco
The difficulty that WikiLeaks has, of course, is that we can't go around speculating on who our sources are. That would be irresponsible. -- Julian Assange
There is a sweetness in being the sole source, the autocratic and irresponsible cause of the greatest joy and profoundest pain to another. -- Ivan Turgenev
What is called matriarchy is simply moral anarchy, in which the mother alone remains fixed because all the fathers are fugitive and irresponsible. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Leadership means firmness, not harshness or bullying; understanding, not weakness; justice, not irresponsible freedom; humaneness, not intolerance; generosity, not selfishness; pride, not egotism. -- Omar N. Bradley
Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of joining Europe they could not have found a better way. -- Jacques Chirac
Aggressive and irresponsible steps endanger the peace and stability of the world, and the international community feels the need to protect itself from Iran. -- Moshe Katsav
Bill Clinton has done some incredibly reckless, irresponsible things as president. But his campaign to expand Medicare entitlements has to rank among the worst. -- Virginia Postrel
The price we pay for our irresponsible explanatory urge is that we often spoil our most pleasant experiences by making good sense of them. -- Daniel Gilbert
Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13. -- Larry Elder
I want to say to each of you, simply, and directly, I am deeply sorry for my irresponsible and selfish behavior I engaged in. -- Tiger Woods
An irresponsible person is a person who makes vague promises, then breaks his word, blames it on circumstances and expects other people to forgive it. -- Ayn Rand
In school, I wasn't a very good student - I was very irresponsible and never did the studying but always liked to get the laugh. -- Ray Romano
Today's tax cuts provide yet another illustration of the Republicans' fiscally irresponsible economic policies that ignore the needs of America's middle class, students, and working families. -- Ellen Tauscher
We need to start by having a conversation about climate change. It would be irresponsible to avoid the issue just because it's uncomfortable to talk about. -- Al Franken
It is irresponsible for this Congress to not investigate the President's lack of an exit strategy, and the fraud, waste, and abuse of U.S. tax dollars. -- Russ Carnahan
Executives can no longer hide behind the corporate veil. They need to be accountable for what their companies do, because entities are responsible for socially irresponsible behavior. -- Simon Mainwaring
It [England] is a family in which the young are generally thwarted and most of the power is in the hands of irresponsible uncles and bedridden aunts. -- George Orwell
...nuclear threats and nuclear weapons are the last argument of weak, stressed and irresponsible politicians. People must act very quicky to stop the movement to nuclear war. -- Alla Yaroshinskaya

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