Responsibility

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

Personal responsibility increases as that of the Gods decreases - Andrﾎ Gide

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible - Stanislaw Lec

Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life — is the source from which self-respect springs - Joan Didion http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/12/20/simone-de-beauvoir-on…)

You have to take responsibility for everything and everyone - Fyodor Dostoyevsy, The Brothers Karamazov

You have to take responsibility for everything and everyone - Fyodor Dostoyevsy, The Brothers Karamazov

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose - Antoine de Saint-Exup

When one does nothing, one believes oneself responsible for everything - Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-80) French philosopher The Condemned of Altona (1961), pt. 1