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The emphasis has been on rights, not responsibilities. When it comes to piecing together the fragments of broken lives, we have tended to place the entire burden on the state and its agencies.

— Jonathan Sacks

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.

— Georges Bernanos

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

— Moliere

As a civilised society, we have a duty to support those among us who are vulnerable and in need. When times are hard, that duty should be felt more than ever, not disappear or diminish.

— Justin Welby

We have a responsibility as a state to protect our most vulnerable citizens: our children, seniors, people with disabilities. That is our moral obligation. But there is an economic justification too - we all pay when the basic needs of our citizens are unmet.

— John Lynch

We have obligations towards the innocent, the dead, towards the living, towards our children and their children.

— Ricardo Lagos

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

— Imelda Marcos

In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.

— Lou Holtz

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

— John D. Rockefeller

We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.

— Bill Maher

✗Opposing Perspectives

Every State has the primary duty to protect its own population from grave and sustained violations of human rights, as well as from the consequences of humanitarian crises, whether natural or man-made.

— Pope Benedict XVI