“When do we reach a point where people become responsible for their own actions?”
Source: Ancient Shores (1996), Chapter 13 (pp. 124-125)
“We are all guilty,” he said. “We are all innocent. Only when we accept responsibility for our own actions do we become free. And only when every one of us accepts their share of responsibility will the world become safe for us all.”
Book 2, Chapter 8 “Revolutions” (p. 422)
Oswald Bastable, The Steel Tsar (1981)
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