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Dietrich Bonhoeffer Theologian
Responsibility

"In the first place, the church can ask the state whether its actions are legitimate and in accordance with its character as state, i.e., it can throw the state back on its responsibilities. Secondly, it can aid the victims of state action. The church has an unconditional obligation to the victims of any ordering of society, even if they do not belong to the Christian community. The third possibility is not just to bandage the victims under the wheel, but to put a spoke in the wheel itself."

Character Christian Responsibility
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Benjamin Watson Football Player
Responsibility

"I'M CONFUSED, because I don't know why it's so hard to obey a policeman. You will not win!!! And I don't know why some policeman abuse their power. Power is a responsibility, not a weapon to brandish and lord over the populace."

Winning Responsibility Confused
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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
Responsibility

"Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way."

Giving Way Responsibility
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Albert Camus Philosopher, Writer
Responsibility

"When the throne of God is overturned, the rebel realizes that it is now his own responsibility to create the justice, order, and unity that he sought in vain within his own condition, and in this way to justify the fall of God. Then begins the desperate effort to create, at the price of crime and murder if necessary, the dominion of man."

Men Fall Responsibility
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Albert Schweitzer Philosopher, Theologian
Responsibility

"The quiet conscience is the invention of the devil. No one of us may permit any preventable pain to be inflicted even though the responsibility for that pain is not ours. No one may shut his eyes and think that the pain which is therefore not visible, is non-existent."

Eye Pain Responsibility
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Ali Sina Philosopher, Writer
Responsibility

"Is driving a right? You are entitled to a driving license if you can abide by the traffic laws and drive responsibly. If your driving endangers the lives of others, that license will be taken away from you. So rights and responsibilities are inseparable. If you can't respect the rights of others, if by your belief and conduct you endanger the lives of other people, you are not entitled to any right."

Taken Responsibility Rights
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Andrea Jung Business Executive
Responsibility

"It's an unbelievable responsibility to influence decisions, shareholder value and most important to me, people's careers and livelihoods."

People Responsibility Careers
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Angela Davis Political Activist, Scholar
Responsibility

"I think that has to do with my awareness that in a sense we all have a certain measure of responsibility to those who have made it possible for us to take advantage of the opportunities."

Reality Opportunity Responsibility
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery Writer, Aviator
Responsibility

"Treason implies responsibility for something, control over something, influence upon something, knowledge of something. Treason in our time is a proof of genius. Why, I want to know, are not traitors decorated?"

Want Responsibility Genius
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Aristotle Philosopher
Responsibility

"But since there is but one aim for the entire state, it follows that education must be one and the same for all, and that the responsibility for it must be a public one, not the private affair which it now is, each man looking after his own children and teaching them privately whatever private curriculum he thinks they ought to study."

Children Responsibility Teaching
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Ayn Rand Philosopher, Novelist
Responsibility

"Under fascism, citizens retain the responsibilities of owning property, without freedom to act and without any of the advantages of ownership. Under socialism, government officials acquire all the advantages of ownership, without any of the responsibilities, since they do not hold title to the property, but merely the right to use it -- at least until the next purge. In either case, the government officials hold the economic, political and legal power of life or death over the citizens."

Government Political Responsibility
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Arianna Huffington Author, Businesswoman
Responsibility

"It is the Fourth Instinct (the spirit - RJ) that urges us to exceed ourselves ... by awakening our intuitive selves, and striving to be all that we were intended to be. It takes us beyond self-centeredness and enables us to resist the combined forces of indifference and meaninglessness. It awakens us to a sense of responsibility for those most in need of our society as well as for that world that future generations will inherit."

World Self Responsibility
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Tarek Saab Artist, Designer
Responsibility

"To be a real man is to be unattached - not from responsibility or justice - but from those dependencies that inhibit responsibility and justice."

Men Real Responsibility
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Rainer Maria Rilke Poet, Novelist
Responsibility

"Perhaps the great renewal of the world will consist of this, that man and woman, freed of all confused feelings and desires, shall no longer seek each other as opposites, but simply as members of a family and neighbors, and will unite as human beings, in order to simply, earnestly, patiently, and jointly bear the heavy responsibility of sexuality that has been entrusted to them."

Men Responsibility Confused
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