Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“When there is no personal responsibility in any society, there cannot be a responsible government.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The welfare state shields people from the consequences of their own mistakes, allowing irresponsibility to continue and to flourish among ever wider… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Creative individuals tend to be smart, yet also naive at the same time... Creative individuals have a combination of playfulness and discipline,… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 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
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
If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge. — James S. Coleman 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
The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility. — Jacques Delors Copy Share Image
The Reagan-Bush years have exalted private gain over public obligation, special interests over the common good, wealth and fame over work and… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
The modern poet has no essential alliance with regular schemes of any sorts.He reserves the right to adapt his rhythm to his… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people.… — Henry A. Kissinger 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
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 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
[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
In the legislature, the House of Representatives is chosen by less than half the people, and not at all in proportion to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Casually, unconsciously, but with deadly effectiveness, western man all round the globe destroyed the traditional gods and the ancient societies with his… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
In five days, you can turn the page on policies that put greed and irresponsibility on Wall Street before the hard work… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Euripides seems to have felt that the dignified perfection of Sophocles could be challenged only by novelty and irresponsibility. The religious conditions… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
In Islam there is a line between let's say freedom and the line which is then transgressed into immorality and irresponsibility and… — Cat Stevens 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
“ 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
“As bitter as it may be, the fact remains: It is the irresponsibleness of masses of people that lies at the basis… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
...often, stepping outside your comfort zone is not careless irresponsibility, but a necessary act of obedience. — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
The artist's duty to himself is a combination of immense responsibility and immense irresponsibility. I think those two interlock. — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image