2,642 Quotes About Responsibility

Our society needs criminals like Wolfgang Priklopil in order to give a face to the evil that lives within and to split it off from ... It needs the images of cellar dungeons so as not to have to see the many homes in which violence rears its conformist, bourgeois head. Society uses the victims of sensational cases such as mine in order to divest itself of the responsibility for the many nameless victims of daily crimes, victims nobody helps – even when they ask for help.

They say that people fall in and out of love, but do they, too, fall in hate? Or fall into indifference? It has hindered men for ages the notion that one falls in love rather than decides to truly love, the notion that his lack of control, on the B-side, can also make him fall in hate or indifference without the responsibility to help it or control it.

In dreams begin responsibilities.

The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.

When you start to accept responsibility for the results you get in life, you also take back the power to change your future outcome.

The corporate controlled government is completely okay with your health being damaged by your employer, but shirks its responsibility to give you disability payments when you have become too sick to work.

I am mindful that scientific achievement is rooted in the past, is cultivated to full stature by many contemporaries and flourishes only in favorable environment. No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid. In my own work this has been particularly true.

Be more receptive of your responsibility than you are of your rights.

In ourselves we carry echoes of every good or stupid ideas imparted in us, each in turn bouncing against each other and against us. The important thing is to recognize them for what they are and flush out the stupid ones into the abyss of insignificance where they belong; we are all capable of acting stupid, but the question is are we willing to continue to do so?