Individual Responsibility Quotes - Page 2

• The years I spent in a Steelers uniform & the years I spent in the military stressed the importance of teamwork and the sacrifices you had to make to accomplish the mission.  And each emphasized individual responsibility and accountability.

  Rocky Bleier

  Teamwork, Military, Responsibility

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• The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between the internal and the external, between the intellectual and the physical.

  Eugenio Montale

  Responsibility, Differences, Solitude

  Eugenio Montale (1976). “Poet in our time”, Calder Publications

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• The thoughts I express, whether clearly or ambiguously, are my own and they are my individual responsibility.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Responsibility, Individual, My Own

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• That way of life against which my generation rebelled had given us grim courage, fortitude, self-discipline, a sense of individual responsibility, and a capacity for relentless hard work.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Hard Work, Responsibility, Self

  Rose Wilder Lane (1985). “Old Home Town”, p.24, U of Nebraska Press

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• Anarchism is that political philosophy which advocates the maximization of individual responsibility and the reduction of concentrated power regal, dictatorial, parliamentary: the institutions which go loosely by the name of "government" to a vanishing minimum.

  Alex Comfort

  Philosophy, Responsibility, Government

  In the Preface of "People Without Government" by Harold Barclay, p. 7, 1982.

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• There are many other (besides testosterone) behaviour-eliciting hormones fundamental for humen well-being, including estrogen and progesterone in females. The fact that complex behavioural patterns can be triggered by a tiny concentration of moleculas coursing through the bloodstream, and that different animals of the same species generate different amounts of these hormones, is something worth thinking about when it's time to judge such matters as free will, individual responsibility, and law and order.

  Carl Sagan

  Responsibility, Thinking, Animal

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• Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. We join a mass movement to escape from individual responsibility, or, in the words of an ardent young Nazi, to be free from freedom. It was not sheer hypocrisy when the rank-and-file Nazis declared themselves not guilty of all the enormities they had committed. They considered themselves cheated and maligned when made to shoulder responsibility for obeying orders. Had they not joined the Nazi movement in order to be free from responsibility?

  Eric Hoffer

  Responsibility, Men, Order

  "The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements". Book by Eric Hoffer. Section 26, 1951.

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• How do we get America back to work? President Obama thinks the answer is more and more government. Government is not the answer. You are not doing anyone a favor by creating dependency, destroying individual responsibility.

  Ted Cruz

  Responsibility, Thinking, Government

  "Video: Ted Cruz Tells The Story Of America". Ted Cruz's speech at 2012 Republican National Convention, hotair.com. August 28, 2012.

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• Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.

  J. C. Watts

  Hard Work, School, Responsibility

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• Traditionalists like me believe the USA has become strong because of its core values, the freedom, individual responsibility and institutions like traditional marriage, which foster common goals.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Strong, Believe, Responsibility

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• Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.

  Thomas Szasz

  Meaningful, Anger, Responsibility

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1990). “The Untamed Tongue: A Dissenting Dictionary”, Open Court Publishing Company

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• Nations are beginning to look to some vague organization, some nebulous course of humanity, to pay their bills and tell them what to do. This is not local self-government. It is not American. It is not the method which has made this country what it is. We can not maintain the western standard of civilization on that theory. If it is supported at all, it will have to be supported on the principle of individual responsibility.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Country, Responsibility, Government

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• A minimal level of sportsman ethics afield is mandated by written law. Beyond that, say, when an action is legal but ethically questionable, or when (as Aldo Leopold long ago pointed out) no one is watching, hunter ethics is an individual responsibility. As the existentialists would have it, we determine our own honor minute by minute, action by action, one decision at a time.

  David Petersen

  Responsibility, Long Ago, Law

  "The North American Model for Wildlife Conservation Is an Endangered Species in Colorado" by David Petersen, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2013.

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• We also need to remember the enduring principles on which the National Party is based – individual responsibility, support for families and communities, and a belief that the State can't and shouldn't do everything.

  John Key

  Party, Responsibility, Support

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• A land ethic...reflects the existence of an ecological conscience, and this in
  turn reflects a conviction of individual responsibility for the health of the land.
  Health is the capacity of the land for self-renewal. Conservation is our effort
  to understand and preserve this capacity.

  Aldo Leopold

  Responsibility, Self, Land

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• We don't go to Sabbath meetings to be entertained or even solely
  to be instructed. We go to worship the Lord. It is an individual
  responsibility, and regardless of what is said from the pulpit, if one
  wishes to worship the Lord in spirit and truth, he may do so by
  attending his meetings, partaking of the sacrament, and
  contemplating the beauties of the gospel If the service is a
  failure to you, you have failed. No one can worship for you. You
  must do your own waiting upon the Lord.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Responsibility, Waiting, Wish

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• We affirm that the true story of capitalism is now beginning, because capitalism is not a system of oppression only, but is also a selection of values, a coordination of hierarchies, a more amply developed sense of individual responsibility.

  Benito Mussolini

  Responsibility, Stories, Hierarchy

  "Through Fascism to World Power: A History of the Revolution in Italy" by Ion Smeaton Munro, Books for Libraries Press, 1933.

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• The free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country. He will ask rather 'What can I and my compatriots do through government' to help us discharge our individual responsibilities, to achieve our several goals and purposes, and above all, to protect our freedom?

  Milton Friedman

  Country, Responsibility, Men

  Milton Friedman (2009). “Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition”, p.2, University of Chicago Press

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• The [nonprofit] sector enhances our creativity, enlivens our communities, nurtures individual responsibility, stirs life at the grassroots, and reminds us that we were born free.

  John W. Gardner

  Creativity, Responsibility, Community

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• Nature has come to a point where now, unless you take individual responsibility, you cannot grow.

  Rajneesh

  Nature, Responsibility, Individual

  "Satyam, Shivam, Sundram: Truth, Godliness, Beauty". Book by Rajneesh, 1988.

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• The West has given us the liberal miracle of individual rights, individual responsibility, merit, and human satisfaction.

  Ibn Warraq

  Responsibility, Rights, Miracle

  Ibn Warraq (2010). “Virgins? What Virgins?: And Other Essays”

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• The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of religion, of special revelation from God; but it is also a book which teaches man his own individual responsibility, his own dignity, and his equality with his fellow - man.

  Daniel Webster

  Book, Responsibility, Men

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• The patrol system leads each boy to see that he has some individual responsibility for the good of his patrol.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Responsibility, Boys, Individual

  Robert Baden-Powell (2013). “Playing the Game: A Baden-Powell Compendium”, p.276, Pan Macmillan

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• Friedrich Hayek made the point that one of the keystones of socialism is the denial of individual responsibility. Thus, the crusade for socialism always included attacks on individual responsibility. For if individuals do not have free will, and are not responsible for their actions, then their lives must be controlled somehow - preferably by the state - according to the socialists. They must be regulated, regimented and controlled - for their own good.

  Thomas DiLorenzo

  Responsibility, Denial, Action

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• While our institutional mission and destiny are not in doubt, how we each participate and understand our individual responsibilities requires constant attention, effort, and vigilance. BYU will progress and prosper, but our individual success is not guaranteed without our own personal best efforts and worthily received blessings.

  Cecil O. Samuelson

  Responsibility, Destiny, Blessing

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