Insightful Quotes for Social Responsibility

“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself."
~ Albert Camus


“The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself."
~ Noam Chomsky

 

“I ask you to join in a re-United States. We need to empower our people so they can take more responsibility for their own lives in a world that is ever smaller, where everyone counts.... We need a new spirit of community, a sense that we are all in this together, or the American Dream will continue to wither. Our destiny is bound up with the destiny of every other American."
~ Bill Clinton

“I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom."
~ Bob Dylan

“Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors … Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations."
~ Albert Einstein


“I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance."
~ William Faulkner


“The sister’s face
Fell all in wrinkles of responsibility.
She wanted to do right. She’d have to think."
~ Robert Frost

 

“... resistance to tyranny is man’s highest ideal."
~ Emma Goldman



“What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honourable, than that of teaching?"
~ Harriet Martineau


“I believe that no man who holds a leader’s position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone."
~ Mother Jones


“What does your conscience say? ... You must become who it is that you are.”
~ Friedrich Nietzsche


“... life is moral responsibility. Life is several other things, we do not deny. It is beauty, it is joy, it is tragedy, it is comedy, it is psychical and physical pleasure, it is the interplay of a thousand rude or delicate motions and emotions, it is the grimmest and the merriest motley of phantasmagoria that could appeal to the gravest or the maddest brush ever put to palette; but it is steadily and sturdily and always moral responsibility.”
~ Elizabeth Stuart Phelps


“Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself."
~ Bertrand Russell

“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."
~ George Bernard Shaw

"One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion."
~ Max Weber