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“There are many other (besides testosterone) behaviour-eliciting hormones fundamental for humen well-being, including estrogen and progesterone in females. The fact that complex behavioural patterns can be triggered by a tiny concentration of moleculas coursing through the bloodstream, and that different animals of the same species generate different amounts of these hormones, is something worth thinking about when it's time to judge such matters as free will, individual responsibility, and law and order.”

“Conscious evolution begins as we take responsibility for clearing our own obstructions.”

Responsibility Evolution Conscious Taking Responsibility Clearing Obstruction

Book:No Ordinary Moments: A Peaceful Warrior's Guide to Daily Life

Source: No Ordinary Moments: A Peaceful Warrior's Guide to Daily Life

“It's partly the fault of the institutions of education. But it's partly the decision to be relieved of responsibility. Literature is simply the most focused form of the demands on the evolution of the species. It imposes a certain responsibility, moral, ethical and esthetic responsibility, and the species simply doesn't want to oblige.”

Want Form Certain Literature Decision Responsibility Moral Evolution Demand Institutions Faults Species Focused Ethical Relieved

Author:Joseph Brodsky

“The evolution of a bourgeoisie is a healthy phenomenon when it grows and prospers thanks to bourgeois values: hard work, honesty, personal responsibility.”

Hard Values Grows Responsibility Honesty Hard Work Evolution Healthy Thanks Phenomenon Personal Responsibility Bourgeois Bourgeoisie

Author:Anne Applebaum

“This evolution towards a real responsibility for others is sometimes blocked by fear. It is easier to stay on the level of a pleasant way of life in which we keep our freedom and our distance. But that means that we stop growing and shut ourselves up in our own small concerns and pleasures.”

Way Mean Real Sometimes Pleasure Levels Responsibility Growing Evolution Easier Concern Distance Pleasant Blocked

Book:Community and Growth

Source: Community and Growth

“Man has risen, not fallen. He can choose to develop his capacities as the highest animal and to try to rise still farther, or he can choose otherwise. The choice is his responsibility, and his alone. There is no automatism that will carry him upward without choice or effort and there is no trend solely in the right direction. Evolution has no purpose; man must supply this for himself. The means to gaining right ends involve both organic evolution and human evolution, but human choice as to what are the right ends must be based on human evolution.”

Source: The Meaning of Evolution: A Study of the History of Life and of Its Significance for Man

“We hold these truths to be self-evident; All people are born creative; Endowed by our Creator with the inalienable right and responsibility to express our creativity for the sake of ourselves and our world.”

People World Self Born Responsibility Creativity Creative Evolution Sake Creator Our World Evident

Author:Barbara Marx Hubbard

“If humankind would accept and acknowledge this responsibility and become creatively engaged in the process of evolution, consciously as well as unconsciously, a new reality would emerge, and a new age could be born.”

Ifs Wells Character Reality Age Spirituality Process Born Consciousness Responsibility Accepting Evolution Angel Acknowledge Engaged Humankind New Age

Author:Jonas Salk

“Animals are our younger brothers and sisters, also on the ladder of evolution but a few rungs lower. It is an important part of our responsibilities to help them in their ascent, and not to retard their development by cruel exploitation of their helplessness.”

Important Helping Animal Responsibility Compassion Brother Development Evolution Exploitation Brothers And Sisters Ladders Helplessness Ascent Retard Younger Brother

Author:Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding

“Traditionalists like me believe the USA has become strong because of its core values, the freedom, individual responsibility and institutions like traditional marriage, which foster common goals.”

“A three billion year old planet floating in the vast universe with mountains, seventy percent seas and oceans, fertile lands, immense forests, rivers and lakes, sea shores and deserts, this is where we humans have the privilege to live, the latest, most advanced newcomers in evolution. What an immense, incredible responsibility we have to be a right, positive element in the further evolution of that planet. That is the big question before us in the new century and millennium.”