William Easterly Quotes

Divide responsibility and nobody is responsible.

Everybody's business is nobody's business.

So I think we got together as the Academy to give ourselves that sort of responsibility and to play well.

The goat which has many owners will be left to die in the sun.

Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind.

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

Questions have arisen about the policing of science. Who is responsible for the policing? My answer is: all of us.

That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

If we really wish to put an end to our ongoing international and social problems we must eventually declare Earth and all of its resources as the common heritage of all the world's people.

More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.

What's everybody's work is nobody's work.

Posterity will judge / Did we good or did we evil, / But for now - hand in hand - Let's move forward, our steps more sure!

Boards are screens. What “the Board” does is the act of nobody; and nobody can be made to answer for it.

We too often prefer the individual thrill to collective responsibility.

The nebulocity known as the international community is ultimately accountable to nobody.

With each protest we all said to each other that we’ve got to keep the crazies in check. We didn’t do it, but the next time we said again, “we’ve got to keep the crazies in check.”

A single Executive may be responsible, but a numerous one cannot be responsible.

Most politicians will not stick their necks out unless they sense grass-roots support ... neither you nor I should expect someone else to take our responsibility.

Responsibility is a unique concept... You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but it is still with you...

Everyone must understand that you can't demand solidarity when there's a problem and shirk your duties when there are solutions.

Solitary decisions, no matter how well-founded they may appear to individuals, must belong to the past - along with national, unilateralist action.

I feel like personally, it's on everybody to hold each other accountable.

It is a team game, we all play for each other; obviously we win and lose as a team, but I like to take the blame when we lose.

If you are going to call out your teammates, you have to call out yourself, too. You can't just separate yourself from the rest, because if you are going to get 90 percent of the credit when you win, you have to be willing to take 90 percent of the blame when you lose.