Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government. 'Am I my brother's keeper?' Most certainly I am! I cannot escape my responsibility by saying the State will do all that is necessary. It is a tragedy that nowadays so many think and feel otherwise.

Few are guilty, but all are responsible.

I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest.

In the U.K., a lot of writers won't show up to support activist issues because they figure they're already repairing the world. I don't want to be one of those people.

My public life is before you; and I know you will believe me when I say, that when I sit down in solitude to the labours of my profession, the only questions I ask myself are, What is right? What is just? What is for the public good?

The error of the Christian right is that in its attempt to codify the requirements of faith in a legislative program, it crowds out the demands of the Love Commandment …. ‘Thou shalt love they neighbor as thyself.’[

If I choose to keep my opinions and my activism to myself, then I'm not effecting any change in my time here on Earth.

There was just this stage where I realised that people were listening to what I was saying and I could actually say something I believe in and, like... why wasn't I doing that? It's not because I think I have a responsibility as a pop star or whatever; it's because I think I have a responsibility as a human being.

We all have a social responsibility and have to be mindful of what we do and say.

I have a responsibility to my fellow my community, to my fellow man, and woman. With that said, I create from a place of selfishness, but I'm also cognizant of potential impact on others. And I try to make that impact positive.

In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom

The true source of rights is duty.

When our interests and values are at stake, we have a responsibility to act.

Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility with regard to everything that has life.

I do feel a responsibility to address things that are problematic, but I don't have to go out of my way to do that.

Life is moral responsibility.

What, then is our duty? It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our small energies to a specific battlefield. The more we are in phase with the current which leads the way, the more we aid man in his difficult, uncertain, danger-fraught ascent toward salvation.

I will suppose that you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life — that you cannot look back to those to whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection; but it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty — for your active exertions are due not only to society, but in humble titude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to serve yourself and others.

When you have a voice and a platform and you know better, it becomes your moral obligation to support that community. And by extension, you're supporting your family.

Life has no meaning except in terms of responsibility.

The world is our responsibility. We cannot evade it.

One victim lives in tragedy, another victim stops to stare, and still another walks on by pretending not to see