Quotes About Responsibility

La découverte des réactions atomiques en chaîne ne constitue pas pour l'humanité un danger plus grand que l'invention des allumettes. Mais nous devons tout entreprendre pour supprimer le mauvais usage du moyen.

am quite aware that it is necessary for the achievement of the objective of an organization that one man should do the thinking and directing and generally bear the responsibility. But the led must not be coerced, they must be able to choose their leader. An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion, soon degenerates. For force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels.

La vida es muy peligrosa. No por las personas que hacen el mal, sino por las que se sientan a ver lo que pasa

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal. ~Albert Einstein

Cei care au privilegiul de a ?ti, au datoria de a ac?iona

You will renounce all relations with me. You will make my meals and tidy my house. You are my servant and nothing more. [rules for his first wife Mileva Maric and his second wife Elsa Einstein]

My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities.

You are still a person who completed a perfect project, but never a good person for doing so." "How, then, do I become an incompetent or bad person?" "You don't! When you do incompetent or evil acts, you become a person who acted badly—never a bad person.

Choice gives you doubts and uncertainties. Therefore, you are always somewhat anxious

All these are readers, and their gestures, their craft, the pleasure, the responsibility and the power they derive from reading, are common with mine. I am not alone.

to lend a book is an incitement to theft. A Reader on Reading p. 281

But who shall be the master? The writer or the reader?

I used to think I had no will to power. Now I perceive that I vented it on thoughts, rather than people. Conquering an unknown province of knowledge. Getting the better of a problem. Forcing ideas to associate or come apart. Bullying recalcitrant words to assume a certain pattern. All the fun of being a dictator without any risks and responsibilities.

Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

The quality of moral behaviour varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

Even science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy. Yes even science.

I would rather,' he said, 'give a healthy boy or a healthy girl a phial of prussic acid than this novel.' (And here let me pause to make Mr. Douglas a sporting offer. I will provide a healthy boy, a phial of prussic acid, and a copy of The Well of Loneliness, and if he keeps his word and gives the boy the prussic acid I undertake to pay all expenses of his defense at the ensuing murder trial and to erect a monument to his memory after he has been hanged.)

It is their duty to be infantile, even against their inclination.

The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray. It is better than one should suffer than that many should be corrupted.

Mass communication, in a word, is neither good nor bad; it is simply a force and, like any other force, it can be used either well or ill. Used in one way, the press, the radio and the cinema are indispensable to the survival of democracy. Used in another way, they are among the most powerful weapons in the dictator's armory.

Science and technology would be used as though, like the Sabbath, they ahd been made for man, not as though man were to be adapted and enslaved to them.

VÄ›cí vlády je zasedat, nikoli mlátit. Vládne se hlavou a zadkem, nikoli pÄ›stí.

Reformers should aim at delivering men from the temptations of sloth no less than from the temptations of ambition, avarice and the lust for power and position. Conversely, no reform which leaves the masses of the people wallowing in the slothful irresponsibility of passive obedience to authority can be counted as genuine change for the better.

Cuando el individuo siente, la comunidad se resiente.