Collective Responsibility Quotes

“Criminal justice" is what happens after a complicated series of events has gone bad. It is the end result of failure--the failure of a group of people that sometimes includes, but is never limited to, the accused person.”
― Paul Delano Butler, Let's Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice

“A citizen of the Roman Empire, for example, would have placed less value on individual liberty in the modern Western sense than on collective responsibility.”
― Stephen Baxter, Proxima

“A great many a drop of water will create a creek.”
― Giovanni Morassutti

“This strategy goes against the established management practice of “holding people accountable,” and thus deserves some additional discussion. If people aren’t even asked to commit on a given task, won’t they relax too much, slow down, and lose focus? It turns out that the answer is no— people, as a rule, enjoy being highly productive— and tend to have even higher motivation when they can manage their own pace of work. Especially in high-risk environments like projects, it actually helps build unity of purpose and trust when staff see that managers above them are assuming responsibility for project risk, and buffering the task-level risk as needed. The aggregated risk approach frees everyone from the need to have the “how aggressively can you commit?” conversation, and allows all team members to focus instead on how to be a high-performing team. And if certain team members decide to take advantage of the “no-commitment” approach by slowing things down, it won’t take long for managers and other team members to notice it and take appropriate action.”
― Michael Hannan

“The burden of keeping the world, every corner of it, safe is one that has to be evenly shared...This is especially more so for the interconnectivity of the global system in our generation.”
― Ray Anyasi, How to Terrorize Terrorism: a more effective answer to global terrorism

“I believe that whether we live in America or in any part of the world, we need to stand against turning ourselves into customers. We are first and foremost humans and citizens, and those attributes allow us to have a dialogue with each other, to fight injustice and violence together, to hold those in power accountable together, to protect the vulnerable and the disempowered members in our society together, and to help each other in times of need collectively. As customers, we are just lonely and isolated individuals measured by our paychecks, the expiration dates on our corporate cards, and the ability to afford or not afford this or that corporate service. It weakens our collective power. Being a customer or a consumer turns everything human, beautiful, and enjoyable into an unpleasant job responsibility. It robs us the pleasure of living.”
― Louis Yako

“Collectivity in individuality is the definition of humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America

“Within suffering, there is a message. Suffering tends to take us to a convergence of what is bearable and what is not—a do or die situation. We are now at that juncture where we are either going to do things very differently or face our demise. We’ve are reaching the final act of a species-wide experiment based on the deep premise of how to go about being humans together in relationship to the world.”
― Michael Ronin, Modern Masculinity for the Conscious Man: Making Sense in Troubled Times

“The philanthropic spirit is a rich soil where seeds of generosity, when sown collectively, sprout into forests of positive change.”
― Linsey Mills, Currency of Conversations: The Talk You've Been Waiting For About Money