The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.
Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller.
Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.
I think there is a huge responsibility upon governments to understand the consequence of their decisions.
Those who have the power and should be the most responsible are often the least responsible.
Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries where government is at the mercy of alienated intellectuals, rambunctious colonels, and rioting students.
Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
If you're going to give people authority and hold them responsible and ultimately accountable for their performance, you've got to get out of the way.
Between an uncontrolled escalation and passivity, there is a demanding road of responsibility that we must follow.