There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
When there is hell to pay, it is usually cheaper to pay it than to finance an endless purgatory.
Power is only too happy to make football bear a diabolical responsibility for stupefying the masses.
For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here.
Each man of us is living his own personal work of art, and cannot evade artistic responsibility for his product.
The artist's duty to himself is a combination of immense responsibility and immense irresponsibility. I think those two interlock.
You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of man? ... Does man have any responsibility for the preservation of a decent balance in nature, for the preservation of rare species, or even for the indefinite continuance of his race?
Man needs knowledge in order to survive, and only reason can achieve it; men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason, can exist only as parasites on the thinking of others.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
You are solely responsible for doing the work required to become better.
In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.
In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
Let's create an integrated global community where we have shared benefits and responsibilities, and we don't fight because of our differences.
Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.
All the old bogeys of 'dignified subject-matter,' of 'balanced compositions,' of 'correct drawing' were laid to rest. The artist was responsible to no one but his own sensibilities for what he painted and how he painted it.
All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.
The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
Duty is what one expects from others.
Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular job. It lies with each of us individually.
Our generation has the ability and the responsibility to make our ever-more connected world a more hopeful, stable and peaceful place.
It's the artist's duty to have an artist's life, somehow to obtain time and freedom and then to muster the desire and discipline to make good work out of the life, whether that goodness is in the world's aesthetics, its radicalism, its candor, its singularity, or its universality.
All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.
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