John Ruskin Quotes

Few are guilty, but all are responsible.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

I always said that when Madrid win, it wasn't just because of Ronaldo, Kaka, or another, and when you lose, it is not fair to blame the failures on these people alone.

Collective crimes incriminate no one.

To punish the individual for the sins of the system makes no sense. We're responsible for changing it, yes. But we can't actually invent another universe, so we have to start where we are.

Membership in a conspiracy, as in an army, frees people from the sense of personal responsibility.

It's not about one person doing one big thing ... It's about a lot of people doing small things that really make the difference.

While there's no 'I' in team, there's also no 'you', okay? So back off.

No-fault guilt: This is when, instead of trying to figure out who's to blame, everyone pays.

All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.

Dog's owners don't call me. It's their neighbors or family members. We call them the whistleblowers, but it's more like the pack. It's making sure that one pack member gets in line. Before it was the owners, now it's the community.

People vote against their own interests that all the time. But when you do the polling in the U.S., it has gone from less than 50 percent who thought climate change was real to 70-odd percent. And if you listen to the Republicans in Congress, they used to say, "Oh, climate change doesn't exist." Then they switched to "Well, it exists, but it's not man-made," to "Well, I'm going to address the issue." Why? Because when they go home, the local constituent says, "Wait a second. What are you talking about? We just had a flood. We haven't had rain in a long time." They can't get away from it.

The bigger the crowd, the more negligible the individual.

Communities tend to be guided less than individuals by conscience and a sense of responsibility. How much misery does this fact cause mankind! It is the source of wars and every kind of oppression, which fill the earth with pain, sighs and bitterness.

No one is strong enough  -  given the magnitude of the task, everyone has to step up their game.

What concerns everyone can only be resolved by everyone.

Nothing depends upon the death of an individual, be he ever so great, but much depends upon the freedom of India.

One man cannot make a team.

It's the work that's important, not the individual who does it.

One individual cannot possible make a difference, alone. It is individual efforts, collectively, that makes a noticeable difference - all the difference in the world!

Each step is not too improbable for us to countenance, but when you add them up cumulatively over millions of years, you get these monsters of improbability, like the human brain and the rain forest. It should warn us against ever again assuming that because something is complicated, God must have done it.

It isn't myself that's important in this transaction apparently; the individual doesn't count much in the situation...all of us are more or less pawns. We're moved about like chessmen by circumstances over which we have no control.

If somebody murders somewhere, I have a part in it. Even if I am a sleeper - I was sleeping, I don´t know about the man, I will never hear about him - and somebody somewhere, in the Himalayas, commits a murder, if we are not individuals I have a part in it, I am also responsible. It is not so easy to throw the responsibility: "I am not committing a murder, I am a saint." No saint is a saint because every sinner is implied in him.

Do not think your single vote does not matter much. The rain that refreshes the parched ground is made up of single drops.

Be assured that our individual actions, collectively, make a huge difference.