Franz Wright Quotes

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Since we own our bodies, we also inevitably own the effects of our actions, be they good or bad. If we own the effects of our actions, then clearly we own that which we produce, whether what we produce is a bow, or a book - or a murder.

We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.

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 the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individuals of moral responsibility. The more we have, the more we grow.

I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge.

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

A problem is that if all of us are collectively responsible for a big world goal, then no single agency or politician is held accountable if the goal is not met. Collective responsibility for world goals works about as well as collective farms in agriculture, and for the same reason.

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

Do not you know that people's sin fall upon the prince, and the prince's sin falls upon the people?

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...

If a whole team doesn't perform, you cannot pick one player especially and say, 'He doesn't do this or do that.'

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.

It's important everyone knows their roles individually and collectively as a group.

I always say, whether it's Liverpool or England, it's not just me who is a leader.

Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.

In my teams, when we win, we all win, and when we lose, I lose.

The patrol system leads each boy to see that he has some individual responsibility for the good of his patrol.

In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty - all are responsible.

You can be free from everything but the consequences of what you do.

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.

Everybody's business is nobody's business.

Everybody has some responsibility. The point is, how are we going to fix it? And you don't fix it simply by blaming the other guy, or blaming the past.