Self-responsibility is the core quality of the fully mature, fully functioning, self-actualizing individual.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.
You can't dodge your responsibilities by saying they don't exist!
We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
Socialism has been preached for so long, the British people no longer have any sense of personal responsibility.
Divide responsibility and nobody is responsible.
In the form of security and sufficiency for the men who labor to the profit of others, and in the form of registering and controlling them in the form of an organized public supervision of their labor, slavery is already afoot. When slavery shall succeed it will succeed through the acquiescence of those who will be enslaved, for they will prefer sufficiency and security with enslavement, to freedom, responsibility, insecurity and the threat of insufficiency.
The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of religion, of special revelation from God; but it is also a book which teaches man his own individual responsibility, his own dignity, and his equality with his fellow - man.
She had the same responsibility as everybody else did: to live as softly as she could in the world.
Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
We have usurped many of the powers we once ascribed to God. Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world of all living things. The danger and the glory and the choice rest finally in man. The test of his perfectibility is at hand. Having taken Godlike power, we must seek in ourselves for the responsibility and the wisdom we once prayed some deity might have.
Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility.
Life has no meaning except in terms of responsibility.
There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake.
The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he cannot stay in this seductive and incorporeal realm. He must return to the material world in order to do his work. It's the artist's responsibility to balance mystical communication and the labor of creation.
A compassionate open home is part of Christian responsibility, and should be practiced up to the level of capacity.
We need a new system of values, a system of the organic unity between humankind and nature and the ethic of global responsibility.
The great escape of our times is escape from personal responsibility for the consequences of one's own behavior.
The moral difference between a soldier and a civilian is that the soldier accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the body politic of which he is a member. The civilian does not.
I feel it's my social responsibility to shine a light on areas that don't get seen. My personal feeling is that it's an artist's responsibility to be engaged with the culture. And when the culture is going through turmoil, I think an artist can't ignore that. I don't feel that every artist has to be politically engaged, but I can't imagine that you can be an active participant of this culture and not in some way reflect that in the work you are creating.
Whether it is under the guise of survival and self-defence or directly expressed through dominion and greed, the failure to recognize the common humanity shared by us all lies at the heart of our difficulties. To overcome it, we should begin to develop, from the level of the individual through that of society to the world at large, what I call a sense of universal responsibility; a deep respect for every living being who lives on this one small planet and calls it home.
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