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'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.
Peter Ustinov

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
Jean-Paul Sartre

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
Voltaire

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
Winston Churchill

Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
Thomas Szasz

The concept of disease is fast replacing the concept of responsibility. With increasing zeal Americans use and interpret the assertion "I am sick" as equivalent to the assertion "I am not responsible": Smokers say they are not responsible for smoking, drinkers that they are not responsible for drinking, gamblers that they are not responsible for gambling, and mothers who murder their infants that they are not responsible for killing.
Thomas Szasz

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are.
Jean-Paul Sartre