We must earn true respect and equal rights from men by accepting responsibility - Amelia Earhart (1898-1937) U.S. aviator, speech (1935)
We live at one of the most exciting times in the whole of human history, the fate of our humanity (and many other species) is, literally, in our hands. We have a job to do. Every single one of us is responsible for the destiny of mankind - Neil
We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe - John Henry Newman (1801-90) British theologian. Letter to Mrs. Froude (June 27, 1848)
There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you - JK Rowling, http://harvardmagazine.com/go/jkrowling.html
The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity - Naomi Klein
The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all - Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, Russian author and winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature. Nobel lecture, (1970)
The notion of obligations comes before that of rights, which is subordinate and relative to the former. A right is not effectual by itself, but only in relation to the obligation to which it corresponds, the effective exercise of a right springing not from the individual who possesses it, but from other men who consider themselves as being under a certain obligation towards him. Recognition of an obligation makes it effectual. An obligation which goes unrecognized by anybody loses none of the full force of its existence. A right which goes unrecognised by anybody is not worth very much - Simone Weil
The buck stops here - Harry S. Truman (1884-1972) U.S. president. Sign on his desk while president. Quoted in Presidential
The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works - Miguel de Cervantes
Responsibility is the price of greatness - Winston Churchill