Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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  3. Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands. - Roy T. Bennett

  4. If you hang out with chickens, you're going to cluck and if you hang out with eagles, you're going to fly. - Steve Maraboli

  5. Character – the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life – is the source from which self-respect springs. - Joan Didion

More Quotes By Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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  2. When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh.

  3. Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

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  5. Many people seek fellowship because they are afraid to be alone...let him who cannot be alone beware of community. He will do harm to himself and to the community. Alone you stood before God when he called you; alone you had to answer that call;...

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