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Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life.
Albert Schweitzer1875–1965Kulturphilosophie (1923), Vol. 2: Civilization and Ethics
- Morality
We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
Dag Hammarskjöld1905–1961Vägmärken · Markings (1963), 1950
- Life & Death
The worst of doing one’s duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.
Edith Wharton1862–1937The Age of Innocence (1920), Ch. 34In context
Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
Jane Goodall1934–2025With Love (1999)
- Inspiration
America is an idea, but it’s an idea that brings with it some baggage, like power brings responsibility.
Bonoborn 1960PENN Address (2004)
- America
I am convinced that everyone can develop a good heart and a sense of universal responsibility with or without religion.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lamaborn 1935Nobel acceptance speech (1989)
- Religion
The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country, than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger.
Andrew Jackson1767–1845To troops who had abandoned their lines during the Battle of New Orleans (8 January 1815).
- Courage
Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
John Stuart Mill1806–1873Inaugural Address Delivered to the University of St. Andrews, Feb. 1st 1867 (1867) p. 36.
- Good & Evil
Happiness can not come to any man capable of enjoying true happiness unless it comes as the sequel to duty well and honestly done.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919Address at the Prize Day Exercises at Groton School (1904)
- Happiness
I hate when I’m on a flight and I wake up with a water bottle next to me like oh great now I gotta be responsible for this water bottle.
Kanye Westborn 1977October 16, 2011 tweet
- Comedy
It is quite certain that in seeing the people who treat us so well despite their own misfortune, we are more obliged than ever to work hard for their happiness.
Marie Antoinette1755–1793Letter to her mother, Empress Maria Theresa (June 1775), after Louis XVI’s coronation at Reims; as quoted in Antonia Fraser, Marie Antoinette: The Journey (2001), p. 135
- Leadership
It seemed to me a matter of course that we should all take our share of the burden of pain which lies upon the world.
Albert Schweitzer1875–1965Out of My Life and Thought (1931), Epilogue
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn’t the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.
John Lennon1940–1980Interview for KFRC RKO Radio (8 December 1980)
- History
We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.
Karl Popper1902–1994The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945), Introduction
For freedom is not the property of one generation; it’s the obligation of this and every generation. It’s our duty to protect it and expand it and pass it undiminished to those still unborn.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004Final speech as President (1989)
- Freedom