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Responsibility has become the fundamental imperative in modern civilization, and it should be an unavoidable criterion to assess and evaluate human actions, including, in a special way, development activities.

— Hans Jonas

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.

— Allan Massie

If everyone is to be made responsible for everything they do, you must extend responsibility beyond the level of conscious intention.

— William S. Burroughs

Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber.

— Frank Crane

You have to be doing things that matter - responsibility, but also responsibility with epic and beautiful and noble tasks.

— Michelle Bachelet

Every human must take responsibility for his actions.

— Jalal Talabani

Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence.

— Michael Polanyi

To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.

— Alexis Carrel

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Moliere

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

— Arnold J. Toynbee

✗Opposing Perspectives

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