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Responsibility Quotes by Ayn Rand
- The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he escapes responsibility, is…
- "Judge not, that ye be not judge"... is an abdication of moral responsibility: it is a moral blank check one gives to others in exchange…
- A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to protect you but your own…
- Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it-that no substitute can do…
- The evasion of responsibility is the major cause of most peoples frustrations and defeats.
- Living in a society, instead of on a desert island, does not relieve a man of the responsibility of supporting his own life.
- Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion. To declare that “everybody is white” or “everybody…
- Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgement and nothing can help you escape it - that no substitute…
- Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man…
- Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
- She fell asleep, lying there, her hand clasping his. Her last awareness, before she surrendered the responsibility of consciousness, was the sense of an enormous…
- You have been called selfish for the courage of acting on your own judgement and bearing sole responsibility for your own life. You have been…
- The ' pleasure' of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness.
- A man who seeks escape from the responsibility of supporting his life by his own thought and effort, and wishes to survive by conquering, ruling…
More Responsibility Quotes
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- I am the constitutionally and legitimately elected sheriff, and I absolutely refuse to surrender my responsibility to the federal government. — Joe Arpaio
- It was regarded as a responsibility of the BBC to provide programs which have a broad spectrum of interest, and if there… — David Attenborough
- Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its… — Richard Bach
- You have to be doing things that matter - responsibility, but also responsibility with epic and beautiful and noble tasks. — Michelle Bachelet
- I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible. — Kevin Bacon
- An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual. — Robert Baden-Powell
- The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond. — Robert Baden-Powell
- Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. — James A. Baldwin
- A movie star is someone people look at and go, 'I want to be like that person'. There's the responsibility of desire.… — Christian Bale
- Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face… — William Barclay