Quotes about Responsibility

Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.

We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.

The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.

Let us destroy, but don't let us pretend that we are commiting an act of virtue.

Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it—that no substitute can do your thinking—that the vilest form of self-abasement and self-destruction is the subordination of your mind to the mind of another, the acceptance of an authority over your brain, the acceptance of his assertions as facts, his say-so as truth, his edicts as middle-man between your consciousness and your existence.

To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accessory to the torture and murder of his victims.

You will follow me, if we are what we are, you and I, if we live, if the world exists, if you know the meaning of this moment and can't let it slip by, as others let it slip, into the senselessness of the unwilled and unreached.

Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence.

No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.

There's no such thing as a lousy job-only lousy men who don't care to do it.

If lightning strikes a rotten tree and it collapses, it's not the fault of the lightning.

The only guilt of the victims, he thought, had been that they accepted it as guilt.