Collective Responsibility Quotes

• It is our collective and individual responsibility to preserve and tend to the environment in which we all live.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Responsibility, Environmental

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• ‎Interdependence is a fundamental law of nature. Even tiny insects survive by mutual cooperation based on innate recognition of their interconnectedness. It is because our own human existence is so dependent on the help of others that our need for love lies at the very foundation of our existence. Therefore we need a genuine sense of responsibility and a sincere concern for the welfare of others.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Relationship, Wise

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• There are five fundamental qualities that make every team great: communication, trust, collective responsibility, caring and pride. I like to think of each as a separate finger on the fist. Any one individually is important. But all of them together are unbeatable

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Volleyball, Team, Communication

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• I don't believe in collective guilt, but I do believe in collective responsibility.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Believe, Responsibility, Guilt

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• When you are a member of an organization, life isn't only about you. As part of a circle of people who depend on one another, you watch one another's back and remain loyal to the concept of brotherhood.

  Sonny Barger

  Circles, Organization, People

  Sonny Barger (2009). “Freedom: Credos from the Road”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• Our fortunes rise together, and they fall together. 'All men are brothers,' said the Analects. We have a collective responsibility-to bring about a more stable and more prosperous world, a world in which every person in every country can reach their full potential.

  Christine Lagarde

  Country, Brother, Fall

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• Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility.

  Richard Aldington

  Military, Responsibility, Patriotism And Nationalism

  Colonel's Daughter (1931) pt. 1, ch. 6

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• Today, as in the Gilded Age, we live in a world where a morality of personal responsibility rubs shoulders with a culture of greed and of flagrant social irresponsibility. Now as then, business has shed its collective responsibility for employees - just as government has for its citizens.

  Charles Derber

  Responsibility, Government, Greed

  Charles Derber (2015). “Sociopathic Society: A People's Sociology of the United States”, p.107, Routledge

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• It is the collective responsibility of the citizens in a modern state to ensure by all means necessary that its government adheres to the rule of law, not just domestically, but internationally. There are no bystanders. No one is entitled to an 'apolitical' exemption from such obligation. Where default occurs, either by citizens endorsement of official criminality or by the failure of citizens to effectively oppose it, liability is incurred by all

  Ward Churchill

  Mean, Responsibility, Bystanders

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• Our culture is at a critical cusp - a time that requires that we define what it means to be a citizen in a democracy. Within our nation we need to foster a greater sense of collective responsibility.

  Robert Neelly Bellah

  Mean, Responsibility, Democracy

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• On my recent trip to Israel, I had the opportunity to visit Yad Vashem, Israel's national Holocaust memorial, and reaffirm our collective responsibility to confront anti-Semitism, prejudice, and intolerance across the world. On this Yom Hashoah, we must accept the full responsibility of remembrance, as nations and as individuals-not simply to pledge "never again," but to commit ourselves to the understanding, empathy and compassion that is the foundation of peace and human dignity.

  Barack Obama

  Responsibility, Opportunity, Compassion

  Statement from the President on Yom Hashoah, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. April 08, 2013.

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• We don't have to reinvent the wheel, just go back to what it was in terms of how corporations acted in terms of their collective responsibility just 20 years ago.

  Joe Biden

  Responsibility, Years, Corporations

  Interview with Rachel Maddow, www.msnbc.com. February 18, 2016.

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• Companies that recognize the need to be creative about their businesses are going to pursue this creative thinking with us or without us. It's our collective responsibility, our collective future to make sure they choose to do it with us.

  Bob Schmetterer

  Business, Responsibility, Thinking

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• I once gave a workshop and I asked the women poets there, If you went back to that little town you've come from - these were from small towns - would you say, I'm a poet? And one of them said, If I said I was a poet in that town, they'd think I didn't wash my windows. And that stayed with me for so long, the sense of the collective responsibility of someone as against the individual thing it takes to be a poet.

  Eavan Boland

  Responsibility, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I can't accept collective responsibility for the decision to commit Britain now to military action in Iraq without international agreement or domestic support.

  Robin Cook

  Military, Responsibility, Agreement

  "Cook resigns from cabinet over Iraq" by Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2003.

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• A citizen of the Roman Empire, for example, would have placed less value on individual liberty in the modern Western sense than on collective responsibility.

  Stephen Baxter

  Responsibility, Liberty, Example

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• In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us by a dictatorship.

  Federica Montseny

  Responsibility, Should Have, Spain

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• Bodily pain affects man as a whole down to the deepest layers of his moral being. It forces him to face again the fundamental questions of his fate, of his attitude toward God and fellow man, of his individual and collective responsibility and of the sense of his pilgrimage on earth.

  Pope Pius XII

  Pain, Attitude, Responsibility

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