Quotes about Responsibility

Man has both potentialities within himself; which one is actualized depends on decisions but not on conditions. Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.

The last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

Thus, logotherapy sees in responsibleness the very essence of human existence

that no one has the right to do wrong, not even if wrong has been done to them.

ultimately responsible for the state of the prisoner's inner self was not so much the enumerated psychophysical causes as it was the result of a free decision.

Freedom is but the negative aspect of the whole phenomenon whose positive aspect is responsibleness.

I therefore felt responsible for writing down what I had gone through, for I thought it might be helpful to people who are prone to despair.

Man is that being which invented the gas chambers; but he is at the same time that being which walked with head held high into these very same gas chambers, the Lord's Prayer or the Jewish prayer for the dead on his lips.

the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.

It did not really matter what we expected from life but rather what life expected from us.

never permit the patient to pass to the doctor the responsibility of judging.

that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from