“If you’re part of the 'I didn’t make this mess. It’s not my problem' crowd, you are part of the problem.”— Joel L. Daniels, twitter.com
“Among the basic freedoms to which men aspire that their lives might be full and uncramped, freedom from fear stands out as both a means and an end. A people who would build a nation in which strong, democratic institutions are firmly established as a guarantee against state-induced power must first…”— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com
“It is undeniably easier to ignore the hardships of those who are too weak to demand their rights than to respond sensitively to their needs. To care is to accept responsibility, to dare to act in accordance with the dictum that the ruler is the strength of the helpless.”— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com
“I killed all those people. Something I did went very wrong and everybody died. It's all my fault, it's all my fault, all the houses and the people and the entire town. I feel all of it. I feel pain, I feel guilt. Is this what you wanted from me? You want to see me broken? Because I am broken, there…”— Beth Szymkowski, Barrett McIntyre, Tyler Chase, imdb.com
“You want me to believe that my dad is responsible for turning people into monsters, right? That he did this to Trent.”— Kristine Huntley, Barrett McIntyre, Tyler Chase, imdb.com
“I don't want the responsibility of other people's lives. I can barely deal with my own, okay? I don't want to bring any more pain.”— Jessica Goldberg, Eddie Lane, Aaron Paul, imdb.com
“Directly and indirectly, you’re responsible for other people’s lives, whether you like it or not.”— Sade Andria Zabala, thoughtcatalog.com
“Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shirk neither. We have become a great nation, forced by the fact of its greatness into relations with the other nations of the earth, and we must behave as be seen as a…”— Theodore Roosevelt, millercenter.org
“The thoughtless person playing with penicillin treatment is morally responsible for the death of the man who succumbs to infection with the penicillin-resistant organism. I hope this evil can be averted.”— Alexander Fleming, amazon.com
“I felt like I had kind of played it out, and I wanted to see what was next, and then came Mythbusters. You know, it's the best job I've ever had, on its worst day it's better than anything else, but it's a huge amount of responsibility, and there are days when just going into work and building somet…”— Adam Savage, tv.avclub.com
“The idea of the banality of heroism debunks the myth of the ‘heroic elect,’ a myth that reinforces two basic human tendencies. The first is to ascribe very rare personal characteristics to people who do something special — to see them as superhuman, practically beyond comparison to the rest of us. T…”— Philip Zimbardo, greatergood.berkeley.edu
“I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a vital organ.”— Anaïs Nin, goodreads.com
“As leaders, we are never responsible for filling anyone else's cup. Our responsibility is to empty ours.”— Andy Stanley, amazon.com
“You know, it’s quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don’t do it. I know I’ll never jump again.”— Jean-Paul Sartre, amazon.com
“Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness,…”— Louis de Bernieres, amazon.com
“I don’t see how you can carry around as much love as I have given you.”— Zelda Fitzgerald, theparisreview.org
“Love isn’t something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn’t a feeling, it is a practice.”— Erich Fromm, amazon.com
“I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if others see us reading, then we learn, we exercise our imaginations. We show others that reading is a good thing.”— Neil Gaiman, theguardian.com