"The concept of 'individual responsibility' is a necessary fiction. Although societies must hold individuals accountable for their own actions, people's behavior is largely determined by forces not of their own making."
Related:
- One often hears about the need for individuals to take responsibility for their own lives.
However, the conditions in which people find themselves... - Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior,
we do so by attempting to give that responsibility... - Blaming society makes it awfully easy for a person of weak character
to shrug off his own responsibility for his actions.
Stanley... - Responsibility is the linchpin of our society. Each man responsible for his
own actions,
each action contributing to the greater good. -- Major... - If a society is to thrive,
it must put its own overall success before the well... - If you would understand your own age, read the works
of fiction produced in it.
People in disguise speak freely... - People must be free to work, to save, to own their own home,
to take risks, to invest in each other and, in essence... - Security is the individual's
responsibility... - People don't own cats,
cats own PEOPLE...
From the same category:
- Governments should focus more on solving the immediate
problems of today rather than trying to solve the anticipated... - The study of history has value only to the extent that
it is relevant to our daily lives... - Colleges should require students to engage in public-service activities in order to assure that each student receives a balanced,
well-rounded education... - The purpose of education should be to provide students with a value system,
a standard, a set of ideas.not to prepare them for... - Censorship is rarely, if ever,
justified...
