Responsibility n: A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God Fate Fortune Luck or one's neighbour. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.
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.
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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...
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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...
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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?
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Robert B. Reich
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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William James
More Quotes By Ambrose Bierce
What gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind.
How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.
When I want to find the vanguard of the people I look to the uneasy dreams of an aristocracy and find what they dread most.
You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned 70 or given up all hope of the Presidency.
Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is a much higher and truer courage.
