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Responsiveness Quotes (page 40)

Don Marquis quote: "An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe it."
An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe it. Don Marquis
Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies."(Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.) Voltaire
I feel I owe you another explanation Harry," said Dumbledore hesitantly. "You may, perhaps, wondered why I never chose you as a prefect? I must confess...that I rather thought...you had enough responsibility to be going on with."Harry looked up at him and saw a tear trickling down Dumbledore's face into his long silver beard. J. K. Rowling
Let us leave political questions to be decided by the powers concerned," Sir Ralph would say, "as we have adopted a form of government which forbids us to discuss our interests ourselves. If a nation is responsible for the faults of its legislature, what one can you find that is guiltier than yours? George Sand
Spalding Gray quote: "All the beautiful waitresses existed like eternal..."
All the beautiful waitresses existed like eternal responsibilities. Spalding Gray
The future is up for grabs. It belongs to any and all who will take the risk and accept the responsibility of consciously creating the future they want. Robert Anton Wilson
Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so. Noam Chomsky
work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it, because in fact everything in life does count on it. Gordon B. Hinckley
I think that nothing is so important for freedom as recognizing in the law each individual’s natural right to property, and giving individuals a sense that they own something that they’re responsible for, that they have control over, and that they can dispose of. Milton Friedman
There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else (parents in the case of children, God in the case of adults) has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point. . . . The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed. Richard Dawkins
Ernest Hemingway quote: "Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But..."
Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself. Ernest Hemingway
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. Robert A. Heinlein
In some men compassion for a woman goes beyond all conceivable limits. Their responsiveness places her in unrealizable positions, not to be found in the world, existing only in imagination, and on account of her they are jealous of the surrounding air, of the laws of nature, of the millennia that went by before her. Boris Pasternak
Will you stay to dinner?" Adam asked."I will not be responsible for the murder of more chickens," said Samuel."Lee's got a pot roast."Well, in that case-- John Steinbeck
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "For the moral basis, it is obvious that man's ethical..."
For the moral basis, it is obvious that man's ethical responsibility varies with his knowledge of consequences Gilbert K. Chesterton

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