#responsibility

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him. ↗

— James Baldwin

#him #people #produced #responsibility #who

In der gegenwärtigen 'Kultur' geben sich wenige die Mühe, zwischen Aufrichtigkeit und dem Vorspielen von Aufrichtigkeit zu unterscheiden - ja, wenige sind zu dieser Unterscheidung überhaupt in der Lage -, wie auch nur wenige zwischen religiösem Glauben und dem Einhalten religiöser Vorschriften unterscheiden. ↗

— J.M. Coetzee

#responsibility #religion

Your pain is not prescribed by your creator, He is the healer thus not giver of misery. We are victims of others; lay the blame where it belongs. Mankind is responsible for its environment and culture, the earth was in its purest form when Adam arrived (blessing on our first prophet) Culture created by man for power. The day we take responsibility for our actions, will be the day God walks through the door smiling ↗

— Zarina Bibi

#islamic #religion #responsibility #religion

We are free to choose our paths, but we can't choose the consequences that come with them. ↗

— Sean Covey

#consequences #responsibility #teen

... I could not bank on the phlegmatic Chinese; I would have to take care of it myself. This would be safer and also consistent with my own responsibility. The latter is the anarch’s ultimate authority. ↗

— Ernst Jünger

#authority #self-responsibility #anarchism

‎"If there is no discipline, there is anarchy. Good citizenship demands attention to responsibilities as well as rights. ↗

— Joe Clark

#responsibility #anarchy

It's none of your concern what others say or think about you. Your happiness is your own responsibility. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#happiness #ignoring #independent #joy #responsibility

People who hardly ever cook at all, suddenly at the holidays, feel like it's their responsibility to not only cook dinner for large groups of people suddenly, but to serve things that are fussy or fancy or formal. And I don't think that's what anybody really wants, especially if you're not good at it. ↗

— Ted Allen

#cook #dinner #especially #ever #fancy

In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#conception #concrete #responsibility #universal #vanishes

I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But the kicker is you have a responsibility to make the characters large enough that you will not have sinned against them. ↗

— Dorothy Allison

#absolute #against #characters #enough #i