“Clearly something had gone wrong, badly, only I wasn't quite sure what—apart from knowing that I was responsible somehow, in the generalized miasma of shame and unworthiness and being-a-burden that never quite left me.” LeftGoneKnowingResponsibleShameBurdenNever Quit Book:The Goldfinch Source: The Goldfinch
“If a bank fails in China, they behead the men at the top of it that was responsible... If we beheaded all of ours that were responsible for bank failures, we wouldn't have enough people left to bury the heads.” PeopleIfsMenEnoughLeftBusinessFailingHe ManResponsibleChina Author:Will Rogers
“I consider myself responsible to the coming generations, which are left stranded in a blitzed world, unaware of the soul trembling in awe before the mystery of life.” WorldSoulLeftResponsibilityGenerationsMysteryResponsibleAweTremblingMystery Of LifeStranded Book:Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980): memorial exhibition Source: Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980): memorial exhibition
“Slackers might look like the left-behinds of society, but they are actually one step ahead, rejecting most of society and the social hierarchy before it rejects them. The dictionary defines slackers as people who evade duties and responsibilities. A more modern notion would be people who are ultimately being responsible to themselves and not wasting their time in a realm of activity that has nothing to do with who they are or what they might be ultimately striving for.” PeopleLooksMightWould BeLeftSocialBehindsResponsibilityStepsModernDutyActivityResponsibleStriveNotionRealmsRejectsHierarchyDictionaryBeing ResponsibleRejectingSlackerSocial Hierarchy Author:Richard Linklater
“Every man who is not for us in this prolonged struggle for liberty is responsible for the present degradation of the mothers of the race. It is pitiful to see how few men ever have made our cause their own, but while leaving us to fight our battle alone, they have been unsparing in their criticism of every failure. Of all the battles for liberty in the long past, woman only has been left to fight her own, without help and with all the powers of earth and heaven, human and divine, arrayed against her.” MenHumansLongHas BeensMadeHelpingEarthPastMotherFightingLeftHeavenCausesRaceLibertyStruggleDivineBattleCriticismResponsibleLeavingEvery ManDegradationPitifulMale Dominance Book:History of Woman Suffrage ...: 1883-1900 Source: History of Woman Suffrage ...: 1883-1900
“We have failed...through our lack of responsible awareness...and thus added to suffering around the world. All of us are cripples-some physically, some mentally, some emotionally. We must, therefore, strive cooperatively to create a new world. There is no time left for destruction, for hatred, for anger. We must build, in hope and joy and celebration.” WorldJoySufferingLeftAwarenessDestructionHatredResponsibleEnvironmentalStriveAround The WorldNew WorldCelebrationStewardshipCripplesTime Left Author:Ivan Illich