Literature for me… tries to heal the harm done by stories. (How much harm? Most of the atrocities of history have been… — Geoff Ryman Copy Share Image
“A very important but difficult piece of renewing relationships is accepting responsibility for our part in any conflict. If we have a… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The word "Guru", as it is used in the contemporary American scene, is someone who takes all your money and tells you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Taking a man's money without his consent, is also as much robbery, when it is done by millions of men, acting in… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
I can't convince you to put the drink down if you're an alcoholic, you have to want to do that. I can't… — Don Young Copy Share Image
“The scientific study of suffering inevitably raises questions of causation, and with these, issues of blame and responsibility. Historically, doctors have highlighted… — Bessel A. van der Kolk Copy Share Image
It is of the utmost importance that our service members are adequately compensated for their duties, and that we offer them a… — Carl Levin Copy Share Image
I think India is very passionate about films. It's almost a second religion back home. Due to that, I think film stars… — Abhishek Bachchan Copy Share Image
Bill Cosby was charged with sexual assault. No matter the outcome of this case this moment is an important public acknowledgement that… — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
We lost our minds in the '80s and '90s; we really as a society just felt that everyone could only care about… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
I don't believe in luck. Everything is our doing or undoing. If something doesn't come out right, then as a director, you… — S. S. Rajamouli Copy Share Image
Christian people should surely have been in the vanguard of the movement for environmental responsibility, because of our doctrines of creation and… — John Stott Copy Share Image
We don't pray for the land. We pray for the humans, all humans... starting with the president, Mohammed Morsi, and all officials,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We discussed politics, but we also talked about the importance of hard work, personal responsibility, living within your means, keeping your word.… — Bob Ehrlich Copy Share Image
The universe that we inhabit and our shared perception of it are the results of a common karma. Likewise, the places that… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The formal granting of independence created a more Manichean system of dependency and exploitation, since for those who practice it, it means… — Kwame Copy Share Image
We have two responsibilities when it comes to an election as citizens. We have the responsibility to vote and then to honor… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
The writer’s job is to write with rigor, with commitment, to defend what they believe with all the talent they have. I… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
The Bible unites its interpreters as a shared focus of attention, but it does not demand consensus. On the contrary, it invites… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
People in China have a range of strong views about how children should be protected when they go online and whether the… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
In an ideal world, social responsibility would be a prerequisite for design, and designers would vow to produce beautiful, useful, positive, responsible,… — Paola Antonelli Copy Share Image
A lot of other wealthy people feel the responsibility to take some of the wealth they've been given and give back: to… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
“As was the case for Nobel's own invention of dynamite, the uses that are made of increased knowledge can serve both beneficial… — Nicolaas Bloembergen Copy Share Image
The idea of having no responsibilities except general edification seems like such a luxury now. When I had it, all I wanted… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
Sometimes it works out well, and certain household responsibilities fall naturally to those who like doing them. For example, my wife likes… — Paul Reiser Copy Share Image
A lot of love records or breakup records, a lot of the songs can tend to be on the blame side and… — Nicole Atkins Copy Share Image
Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
I take responsibility for the times I was arrested and the things that I did. Me being 33 now, I look back… — Gucci Mane Copy Share Image
I really feel a sense of responsibility first as a creation of a force that I call God, that's bigger than myself.… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
In uncertain times, it is of heightened importance that our elected representatives exercise their democratic duty and use all levers at parliament's… — Gina Miller Copy Share Image
Anyone who has actually had to take responsibility for consequences by running any kind of enterprise whether economic or academic, or even… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A splendid storehouse of integrity and freedom has been bequeathed to us by our forefathers. In this day of confusion, of peril… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
I think that fiction has this special responsibility or this special ability to help people to empathize, to demand of people that… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
... the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Today the Israeli government continues seizures of Palestinian land for settlements, military incursions into surrounding countries and denial of the right of… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
It is not in violence and crime that our greatest danger lies. These evils are so perfectly apparent that they very quickly… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
We attempted to try to solve every problem in the world, out of a sense of moral obligations, and attitudes, and our… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
