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“What is necessary to keep providing good care to nature has completely fallen into ignorance during the materialism era.”

Care Growth Nature Responsibility Ignorance Eras Fallen Materialism Providing Consumption

Author:Rudolf Steiner

“The plea of ignorance will never take away our responsibilities.”

Responsibility Ignorance

Book:Lectures on Architecture and Painting

Source: Lectures on Architecture and Painting

“To ignore [the] great social facts -- political facts, if you please -- and over-emphasize the old moral responsibility of the 'domestic' mother is a hollow mockery and betrays a hopeless ignorance of industrial and urban conditions in the Twentieth Century. ... Everything that counts in the common life is political.”

“There can be no truly moral choice unless that choice is made in freedom; similarly, there can be no really firmly grounded and consistent defense of freedom unless that defense is rooted in moral principle. In concentrating on the ends of choice, the conservative, by neglecting the conditions of choice, loses that very morality of conduct with which he is so concerned. And the libertarian, by concentrating only on the means, or conditions, of choice and ignoring the ends, throws away an essential moral defense of his own position.”

“Crimes increase as education, opportunity, and property decrease. Whatever spreads ignorance, poverty and, discontent causes crime.... Criminals have their own responsibility, their own share of guilt, but they are merely the hand.... Whoever interferes with equal rights and equal opportunities is in some real degree, responsible for the crimes committed in the community.”

“So long as mathematicians can impose up-and-down semantics upon students while trafficking personally in the non-up-and-down advantages of their concise statements, they can impose upon the ignorance of man a monopoly of access to accurate processing of information and can fool even themselves by thought habits governing the becoming behavior of professional specialists, by disclaiming the necessity of, or responsibility for, comprehensive adjustment of the a priori thought to total reality of universal principles.”

“To rail and rant against tyranny is to manifest inferiority, for there is no tyranny but ignorance; to be conscious of one's powers is to lose consciousness of tyranny. Self government is not a remote aim. It is an intimate and inescapable fact. To govern oneself is a natural imperative, and all tyranny is the miscarriage of self government. The first requisite of freedom is to accept responsibility for the lack of it.”

“Most ignorances are vincible, and in the greater number of cases stupidity is what the Buddha pronounced it to be, a sin. For, consciously, or subconsciously, it is with deliberation that we do not know or fail to understand-because incomprehension allows us, with a good conscience, to evade unpleasant obligations and responsibilities, because ignorance is the best excuse for going on doing what one likes, but ought not, to do.”

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Book:Complete Essays: 1936-1938

Source: Complete Essays: 1936-1938

“It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.”

Inspirational Humans Motivational Responsibility Rights Ignorance West Human Rights Christian Inspirational Obligation East And West

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Actions have consequences. Ignorance about the nature of those actions does not free a person from responsibility for the consequences. (28)”

Persons Doe Action Responsibility Ignorance Consequence Actions Have Consequences

Author:Stephen Dobyns

“One must care about a world one will not see.”

World Care Peace Responsibility Ignorance Future Caring

Author:Bertrand Russell