Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2002-04-29 Apr 29, 2002I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.~ John Enoch PowellThe first step to truly living a good and fearless life, is accepting responsibility for your actions. Accepting what part you had in any situation. Difficult, to say the least, but liberating.~ Jann ArdenLet everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Apr 26, 2002Our job this day is to become part of the answer to the world's immense and protracted suffering rather than continuing our ancient task of being part of the difficulty.~ Hugh PratherNobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.~ Edmund Burke Apr 25, 2002With every civil right there has to be a corresponding civil obligation.~ Edison HainesI believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.~ John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Apr 24, 2002Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.~ Sigmund FreudA free man is as jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties.~ Cyril James Apr 23, 2002Too many Americans have twisted the sensible right to pursue happiness into the delusion that we are entitled to a guarantee of happiness. If we don't get exactly what we want, we assume someone must be violating our rights. We're no longer willing to write off some of life's disappointments to simple bad luck.~ Susan Jacoby Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print