One always pulls the trigger out of self-interest and quotes history to avoid responsibility or pangs of conscience.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this from the start during World War II.
Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.
One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.
I look at modern life and I see people not taking responsibility for their lives. The temptation to blame, to find external causes to one's own issues is something that is particularly modern. I know that personally I find that sense of responsibility interesting.
It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.
I'm a historian. The act of predicting the future discomfits me, in any event - and the bigger the prediction, the more distrusting I am.
One person has a responsibility not just for himself but for inter-relationships with the existences of others and the world.
If everyone is to be made responsible for everything they do, you must extend responsibility beyond the level of conscious intention.
Whenever one pulls the trigger in order to rectify history's mistake, one lies. For history makes no mistakes, since it has no purpose.