2,642 Quotes About Responsibility

It's true, it's our responsibility because we are the only ones here.

You can't dodge your responsibilities by saying they don't exist!

The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition.

Writing should be useful. If it can't instruct people a little bit more about the responsibilities of consciousness there's no point in doing it.

It is not enough to hold the line against the dark. It is your responsibility to lead into the light. People don't like the light--it reveals too much. But hand in hand with the creative artist, you can lead people into the wisdom that is known to all other animals: simply, that it is the dark we have to fear.

For good or ill, I'm a person of leadership. I do my best. I don't dodge responsibility.

There's only one cook in the kitchen, only one chef. I let the soloists do their thing - you've gotta let a man do a solo the way he wants - but as far as picking the tunes and working on the arrangements, I take full responsibility for it.

By assigning his political rights to the state the individual also delegates his social responsibilities to it: he asks the state to relieve him of the burden of caring for the poor precisely as he asks for protection against criminals. The difference between pauper and criminal disappears - both stand outside society.

where everybody is guilty, nobody is.