quotations about responsibility
Responsibility I believe accrues through privilege. People like you and me have an unbelievable amount of privilege and therefore we have a huge amount of responsibility. We live in free societies where we are not afraid of the police; we have extraordinary wealth available to us by global standards. If you have those things, then you have the kind of responsibility that a person does not have if he or she is slaving seventy hours a week to put food on the table; a responsibility at the very least to inform yourself about power.
NOAM CHOMSKY
interview, The Observer, 2003
Why don't you take some responsibility?
You're pointing fingers and blaming everybody
Shudder to think if I lived like you
They would be shaking too, if they only knew
EXODUS
"Shudder to Think"
One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.
P. J. O'ROURKE
Rolling Stone, November 30, 1989
The price of greatness is responsibility.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
speech at Harvard University, September 6, 1943
In the moral and social duties of life there are responsibilities resting upon us which, if neglected, become so great a burden that we fall under their oppressiveness.
ANNIE E. LANCASTER
attributed, Day's Collacon
You become responsible forever for what you've tamed.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY
The Little Prince
The victim mindset dilutes the human potential. By not accepting personal responsibility for our circumstances, we greatly reduce our power to change them.
STEVE MARABOLI
Unapologetically You
"Responsibility" is a fundamental legal concept, a basic building block of legal thought and reasoning.
PETER CANE
Responsibility in Law and Morality
The fact that responsibility is a threshold concept in no way undermines my claim that responsibility tracks hypercapacity, but rather it yet again helps to underscore and to emphasize it.
NICOLE A. VINCENT
Neuroscience and Legal Responsibility
A lot of responsibility is learned over time and comes with experience. The best we can do is try our hardest and be self-aware.
MACY HOW
"Student Life: Learning Responsibility", Powell River Peak, November 24, 2017
He who weighs his own responsibilities can bear them.
NEPOS
attributed, Day's Collacon
I'm convinced that responsibility is some kind of psychological disease.
BRANDON SANDERSON
Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia
Don't know myself but now my back against the wall
Responsibility, responsibility workin'
Double shifts and not getting any sleep workin'
Double shifts and not getting any sleep
I finally found a day to spend on myself
I finally found a day but someone bought my health
Had a little money in my pocket for a minute
A little money in my pocket but it's gone my time is runnin' out and my chances are few
It wouldn't look so easy if you only knew
Responsibility
FEAR
"Responsibility"
There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free ourselves from the responsibility for acts which are prompted by our own questionable inclinations and impulses. Both the strong and the weak grasp at this alibi. The latter hide their malevolence under the virtue of obedience: they acted dishonorably because they had to obey orders. The strong, too, claim absolution by proclaiming themselves the chosen instrument of a higher power -- God, history, fate, nation, or humanity.
BRUCE LEE
Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
Responsibility sits so hard on my shoulder
Like a good wine, I'm better as I grow older
LOU REED
"A Gift"
At the end of the day, taking responsibility is a huge premium price creator. As a client, the more I pay, the more I expect to be taken care of.
PIA SILVA
"Are You Disciplined Enough To Charge Premium Prices?", Forbes, November 15, 2017
Let us not shrink from the responsibility which comes down upon the age in which we live. The great and mighty problem of the universe has been given to the whole human family for its solution.
O. M. MITCHELL
The Pulpit and Rostrum
Distributing responsibility is an effective way to build proficiencies, increase personal accountability, and test how people handle their newfound freedom.
DAVID KAHN
"Three leadership strategies to embrace right now if you're thinking about scaling up your business", Insider, November 27, 2017
Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done.
HUBERT SELBY JR.
Requiem for a Dream
Exercising responsibility is a matter of constant interpretation, individual discretion and judgement. In other words, responsibility is not a finalised notion but rather an open one, subject to additions and alterations that change with time and place. One may encounter as many views on responsibility as there are periods of history, contexts, conventions, religions, laws, interpretations, not to speak of a variety of interests and objectives.
EDITH SIZOO
Responsibility and Cultures of the World: Dialogue Around a Collective Challenge