The Iliad represents no creed nor opinion, and we read it with a rare sense of freedom and irresponsibility, as if we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
An old man, having retired from active life, regains the gaity and irresponsibility of childhood. He is ready to play, he cannot… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
I think that asserting that former President Obama wasn't born in the United States was just the height of irresponsibility, of course.… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Irresponsibility, cowardice, personal vanity, whining and chaos are becoming the maxims of political action. There is a stink in Berlin - a… — Edmund Stoiber Copy Share Image
Apparently the only people who are supposed to be responsible are the taxpayers - and they are increasingly made responsible for other… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The magnificent title of the Functional School of Anthropology has been bestowed on myself, in a way on myself, and to a… — Bronislaw Malinowski Copy Share Image
The trouble with traditional American conservatism is that it lacks a naturally cheerful, optimistic disposition. Not only does it lack one, it… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
There is perhaps no sort of self more subject to dangerous egotism than that which deludes itself with the notion that it… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
“The reason why women are abandoned has always been a puzzle to me, until I started realizing that it goes back to… — Kent Lamarc Copy Share Image
It is the modern feminists who are the real male chauvinists, lusting for reproductive freedom (sexual irresponsibility) like playboys and demanding empowerment,… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Liberals and conservatives disagree over what are the most important sins. For conservatives, the sins that matter are personal irresponsibility, the flight… — E. J. Dionne Copy Share Image
“ Without the power to put them into practice, truths are of no use. They remain academic. Power, no matter what kind… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
The obscenities of this country are not girls like you. It is the poverty which is obscene, and the criminal irresponsibility of… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
An institution that...would permit Iraq, a terrorist state that refuses to disarm, to become soon the chair of the United Nations Commission… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
A man's life is always dealing with permanence, that is the most dangerous kind of irresponsibility is to think of your doings… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I am one of the most irresponsible beings that ever lived. Irresponsibility is part of my invisibility; any way you face it,… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility,… — Anthony Zinni Copy Share Image
[I]n America, at least, we have a pretty good record for behaving in a fiscally responsible fashion, with one exception - namely,… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
It is my experience that people who don't participate in society, who don't have jobs, who don't have friends, are just very… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“When people refuse to pay the price of personal responsibility for the problems of the nation, these same people end up paying… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage... between compromise - even calculated risk -… — Ehud Barak Copy Share Image
The frontier in space, embodied in the space colony, is one in which the interactions between humans and their environment is so… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
On the way from the Renaissance to our days we have enriched our experience, but we have lost the concept of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb. Ineffable socialities are in me. I would sit down and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I don't want to write poems that are just really clear about how I'm aware of all the traps involved in writing… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
Beneath all the rhetoric about relevance lies a profoundly disturbing possibility - that people may base their lives upon an illusion, upon… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
Selfishness is like a disease that suffocates our capacity to love. While love asks us to deny ourselves for the sake of… — Stephen Kendrick Copy Share Image
When America's creditors consider our behavior they see total fiscal irresponsibility. They see a deluded country that acts as if it is… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
I think we left out one of the really important elements contributing to the dynamism of society, and that is the right… — Chester Barnard Copy Share Image
Exasperation with the threefold frustration of action -- the unpredictability of its outcome, the irreversibility of the process, and the anonymity of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Perhaps it suddenly brought to us the sense of change. Or irresponsibility. But don't forget that, though the people in the twenties… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
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