“Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do.”
Source: Eating Animals
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Novelist 1977Related quotes

“It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.”

“We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.”

“We are responsible not only for what we do but also for what we could have prevented.”
Introduction (p. xv)
Writings on an Ethical Life (2000)

“Responsibility is the ability to respond.”

Source: No Way Out (2002), Ch. 7: What Kind Of Human Being Do You Want?
Context: The fact is that we don't want to be free. What is responsible for our problems is the fear of losing what we have and what we know. All these therapies, all these techniques, religious or otherwise, are only perpetuating the agony of man.

In Union There Is Strength (2020)

For My Legionaries: The Iron Guard (1936), Politics