“…if what I say is responsible, I alone am responsible for the saying of it…”
Edward R. Murrow (1908–1965) Television journalist
RTNDA Convention Speech (1958)
The Untamed Tongue: A Dissenting Dictionary (1990)
“…if what I say is responsible, I alone am responsible for the saying of it…”
Edward R. Murrow (1908–1965) Television journalist
RTNDA Convention Speech (1958)
Jean Paul Sartre book Being and Nothingness
Part 4, Chapter 1, III
Being and Nothingness (1943)
Context: I am responsible for everything … except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my being. Therefore everything takes place as if I were compelled to be responsible. I am abandoned in the world … in the sense that I find myself suddenly alone and without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant.
Pol Pot (1925–1998) former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea
As reported by David Ashley (1995) and quoted in Brother Number One (1999) by David P. Chandler
Attributed
“That's your response to everything: drink?"
"No, that's my response to nothing.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Hamid Karzai (1957) President of Afghanistan
[http://www.rferl.org/content/article/1072624.html President Karzai Discusses Worsening Security (March 9, 2006)
2006
“I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it.”
Quentin in After the Fall (1964) Act II
After the Fall (1964)
Dean Acheson book Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department
Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department (1969), Purpose of the Book
“The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, "I've got responsibilities."”
Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
“Nothing happens to advance our potential until we step and say “I am responsible.””
John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn