Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have…

Just the responsibility of wanting to see my mother have a better life; making sure my sister had a better life. I went ahead…

— Yo Gotti

“Anger always involves projection of separation, which must ultimately be accepted as one's own responsibility, rather than being blamed on others.”

— Foundation for Inner Peace

“Betterment is perpetual labor. The world is chaotic, disorganized, and vexing, and medicine is nowhere spared that reality. To complicate matters, we in medicine…

— Atul Gawande

“You, alone, chose and accepted responsibility for your path, and that is why you will leave this chamber on your own two feet.”

— Jennifer Turner

Our veterans accepted the responsibility to defend America and uphold our values when duty called.

— Bill Shuster

Everyone aimed at security: no one accepted responsibility. What was plainly lacking, long before the barbarian invasions had done their work, long before economic…

— Lewis Mumford

I'm no shrinking violet. I played hockey until half my teeth were knocked down my throat. And I'm extremely competitive on a tennis court.…

— Peter Burwash

“I will persist until I succeed. I was not delivered into this world in defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am…

— Og Mandino

You eat the burger but you don't want the slaughterhouse next door to where you live.

— Chicken John

I became vegan because I saw footage of what really goes on in the slaughterhouses and on the dairy farms.

— Ellen DeGeneres

Trying to exhaust himself, Vaughan devised an endless almanac of terrifying wounds and insane collisions: The lungs of elderly men punctured by door-handles; the…

— Anonymous

Wherever he goes, whatever he does, he will always see that word: murder—immortally inscribed upon the pediment of that vast slaughterhouse—humanity.

— Octave Mirbeau

Factory-farm lobbyists are so powerful and so well funded and they do everything in their power to hide the truth about farming. They keep…

— Moby

It's commonly said that if slaughterhouses had clear glass walls, nobody would eat meat. I think people go out of their way to remain…

— Steve-O

Nearly all the writing of our time is likely to disappear in a hundred years. Certainly most readers - and nearly all critics -…

— Michael Dirda