The responsibility of love: To keep another's heart safe.
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Those who commit acts of violence are surely responsible for them; they are not dupes or mechanisms of an impersonal social force, but agents with responsibility. On the other hand, these individuals are formed, and we would be making a mistake if we reduced their actions to purely self-generated acts of will or symptoms of individual pathology of 'evil'.
Judith Butler, Precarious Life
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"Anyone who doesn't care for little things
will fail when it comes to the big ones."
Lao Tzu.
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The fundamental question of philosophy (like that of psychoanalysis) is the same as the question of the detective novel: who is guilty?
Umberto Eco, Postscript to the Name of the Rose
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To keep our hearts open is probably the most urgent responsibility you have as you get older.
-- Leonard Cohen
(Copenhagen, Denmark)
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Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
Sigmund Freud
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That was the big problem with being a witch. It was up to you. It was always up to you.
Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith
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Now this is powerful. Having felt bogged down all the time by thinking I had to be responsible for things that I didn't even have reason to know about was exhausting. Freeing is the feeling of just saying, "I'm not responsible for that," and actually clearing all of whatever it is out of your mind.
Source: Dr. Glenn Doyle
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A crowd in its very concept is the untruth, by reason of the fact that it renders the individual completely impenitent and irresponsible, or at least weakens his sense of responsibility by reducing it to a fraction.
Søren Kierkegaard, The Point of View
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