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It is human nature to favor individuals and institutions who we know or for whom we feel responsible.

— David Boies

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.

— Nikki Giovanni

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

— Moliere

Psychologically, it's always more pleasurable to blame others for our problems than it is to acknowledge our own responsibility.

— Barry Eisler

Some of us are better at owning the responsibility of our actions than others.

— Joel Edgerton

We don't naturally want to take responsibility for our lives. We want to give the responsibility to someone else. We blame them when our lives aren't good.

— Donald Miller

Everybody has to be responsible for their own actions - and if they do something wrong, I believe in paying for it.

— Kate Mara

It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.

— Kenneth L. Pike

One person has a responsibility not just for himself but for inter-relationships with the existences of others and the world.

— Haskell Wexler

People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.

— P. Chidambaram

✗Opposing Perspectives

What influences our behavior, and what our level of responsibility is, are very complex issues. And anytime we try to make this simplistic, we don't serve people well.

— John Ortberg