Quotes About Responsibility

Everything happens to every man as if the entire human race were staring at him and measuring itself by what he does. So every man ought to be asking himself, Am I really a man who is entitled to act in such a way that the entire human race should be measuring itself by my actions? And if he does not ask himself that, he masks his anguish.

In choosing myself, I choose man.

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. Such is the first principle of existentialism.

The writer, a free man adressing free men, has only one subject - freedom

Every man ought to say to himself, Am I really the kind of man who has the right to act in such a way that humanity might guide itself by my actions?

Nous sommes seuls, sans excuses. C'est ce que j'exprimerais en disant que l'homme est condamné à être libre. Condamné, parce qu'il ne s'est pas créé lui-même, et par ailleurs cependant libre, parce qu'une fois jeté dans le monde, il est responsable de tout ce qu'il fait. […] L'homme, sans aucun secours, est condamné à chaque instant à inventer l'homme.

I felt that the success of the enterprise was in my hands: the moment had an obscure meaning which had to be trimmed and perfected; certain motions had to be made, certain words spoken: I staggered under the weight of my responsibility.

Seuls les actes décident de ce qu'on a voulu.

Man is not only that which he conceives himself to be, but that which he wills himself to be...

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

Everything happens to every man as though the whole human race had its eyes fixed upon what he is doing and regulated its conduct accordingly.

That is the idea I shall try to convey when I say that man is condemned to be free. Condemned, because he did not create himself, yet, in other respects is free; because, once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. The existentialist does not believe in the power of passion. He will never agree that a sweeping passion is a ravaging torrent which fatally leads a man to certain acts and is therefore an excuse. He thinks that man is responsible for his passion.

Le secret douloureux des Dieux et des rois: c'est que les hommes sont libres. Ils sont libres Egisthe. Tu le sais, et ils ne le savent pas.

Ama barda??m?n dibinde biram ?l?ksa, aynada koyu renkli lekeler varsa, fazlal?ksam; en içten ve en kat???ks?z ac?m, ay?bal??? gibi, hem bir y???n et hem gepgeniÅŸ bir deriyle ve insan?n içine dokunan ?slak, ama kötülük dolu gözlerle sürüklenip hantalla??yorsa bu benim kabahatim mi?

man being condemned to be free carries the weight of the whole world on his shoulders; he is responsible for the world and for himself as a way of being.

I glance around the room. What a comedy! All these people sitting there, looking serious, eating. No, they aren't eating: they are recuperating in order to successfully finish their tasks. Each one of them has his little personal difficulty which keeps him from noticing that he exists; there isn't one of them who doesn't believe himself indispensable to something or someone.

Unity may be achieved under a strong man, but the time comes when a people must stop looking for a savior and take responsibility for their own future.

And you, fathers and mothers, loving par-ents, lower your eyes humbly. They are there, your dead children, stretching their frail arms towards you, and all the happiness you denied them, all the tortures you inflicted, weigh like lead on their sad, childish, unforgiving hearts.

Man is condemned to be free.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. It is up to you to give [life] a meaning." – Jean-Paul Sartre

Varl??? bir rezaletti ve daha sonra üstüne alaca?? sorumluluklar bu rezaleti doÄŸrulamaya yetecekti.

But you have to choose: live or tell.

We all wish we did not exist. It is a state where we have no choice. This is because when you have a choice comes responsibility and anxiety.

The existentialist portrays a coward as one who makes himself a coward by his actions, a hero who makes himself heroic.