We're not responsible, he thought. This planet is a temporary affair. It's whizzing with all kinds of other ones, a whole range of planetary stuff, toward a star in the Milky Way. On that kind of a planet we're not responsible, he thought.
-
Bertolt Brecht
We prefer to imagine brutal wars and atrocities as events that "just happen" every now and then, much like tornadoes or lightning strikes; this metaphor suggests that we can't generalize from them, since they are radically discontinuous with ordinary life. But wars and atrocities do...
-
Rosa Brooks
The people of Hiroshima went to work at once to restore human society in the aftermath of the great atomic flood. They were concerned to salvage their own lives, but in the process they also salvaged the souls of the people who have brought the...
-
Anonymous
Along with individual responsibility goes some societal responsibility to enable young people and their parents to do what they need to do. Otherwise, what is a society?
-
Robert B. Reich
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
-
William James
More Quotes By Orrin Woodward
Lessons from the past create hope for the future and action in the present.
Fame and fortune await the few with the faith to fall forward despite frustrating failures.
The birth of new knowledge begins with an admission of old ignorance.
What kills leadership growth isn't ignorance, but rather the illusion of knowledge.
More powerful than the will to win is the courage to begin.
