Individual Responsibility Quotes

“Environmental cleanliness begins with each individual desire to be clean.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Each of us has an undeniable responsibility to ourself and the rest of the world to be our personal best on any given day.”
― Laurie Buchanan

“Malaria prevention and eradication should be inspired by General George Patton’s advice: “A good plan executed violently today is better than a perfect plan in a week.” In this war of attrition, millions of people will be lost while waiting on researchers to finally emerge triumphant from their labs with the perfect malaria cure; yet meanwhile, there are plenty of time-proven, practical actions that individuals, families and communities can do today with what is already in hand that can decisively defeat malaria transmission if applied with vigor and disciplined consistency.”
― T.K. Naliaka

“Every individual has a role to play for the betterment of our nation.”
― Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

“Politicians obfuscate. It gets them re-elected. If no-one can understand what is going on, then the perception is that we need someone to guide us through the fog. Many people want to be led. A few people even think that they need to be led.”
― Sieg Pedde

“There are those that want freedom from individual responsibility, and then there are those that want individual liberty. "Freedom" and "liberty" no longer mean what they used to. A desire for dependence has been made fashionably desirable.”
― A.E. Samaan

“There are those that want "freedom" from individual responsibility. Then there are those that want individual "liberty." I choose the latter. I am a Libertarian”
― A.E. Samaan

“When you expand from expectation to moderation, the world expands from war to peace.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier

“Systemkritik ist oft ein ­elegantes Alibi, um die Verantwortung des einzelnen Individuums kleinzureden.

Criticism of the system is often an elegant alibi, to downgrade the responsibility of the individual.”
― Niko Paech, All you need is less: eine Kultur des Genug aus ökonomischer und buddhistischer Sicht

“Big revolution changes party, small everyday revolution changes paradigm.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Corazon Calamidad: Obedient to None, Oppressive to None

“If you do not live in some out-of-the-way place in the world, if you live in a populous city, and you direct your attention outwards, sympathetically engrossing yourself in this way into the world around you, that in this relation, you relate yourself to yourself as an individual with eternal responsibility? Or do you press yourself into the crowd, where the one excuses himself with the others, where at one moment there are, so to speak, many, and where in the next moment, each time that the talk touches upon responsibility, there is no on? Do you judge like the crowd, in its capacity as a crowd? You are not obliged to have an opinion about what you do not understand. No, on the contrary, you are eternally excused from that. But you are eternally responsible as an individual to render and account for your opinion, and for your judgement. And in eternity, you will not be asked inquisitively and professionally, as though by a newspaper reporter, whether there were many that had the same--wrong opinion. You will be asked only whether have held it, whether you have spoiled your soul by joining in this frivolous and thoughtless judging, because the others, because the many judged thoughtlessly. You will be asked only whether you may not have ruined the best within you by joining the crowd in its defiance, thinking that you were many and therefore you had the prerogative, because you were many, that is, because you were many who were wrong. In eternity it will be asked whether you may not have damaged a good thing in order that you also might judge with them that did not know how to judge, but who possessed the crowd's strength, which in the temporal sense is significant but to which eternity is wholly indifferent.”
― Soren Kierkegaard, Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing: Spiritual Preparation for the Office of Confession

“But that man is slow to pass judgment who bears in mind, that he is an individual, and that the final and highest responsibility for the judgement rests solely upon him.”
― Soren Kierkegaard, Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing: Spiritual Preparation for the Office of Confession