Cornel West Quotes

I think people have to take responsibility for their own actions.

I must be responsible and accountable for my actions.

If I'm not doing anything to make a change, then I'm responsible.

With freedom goes responsibility, a responsibility that can only be met by the individual himself.

We are not powerless. We have tremendous potential for good or ill. How we choose to use that power is up to us; but first we must choose to use it. We're told every day, You can't change the world. But the world is changing every day. Only question is who's doing it? You or somebody else?

Sociology should... be thought of as a science of action-of the ultimate common value element in its relations to the other elements of action.

For some men, nothing is Written unless they Write it.

There is always a very delicate interplay between individual actions and institutional conditions.

You are responsible for the predictable consequences of your actions.

It is the responsibility of every human to know their actions and the consequences of their actions and to ask questions and to question things when they are wrong.

We do not what we ought; What we ought not, we do; And lean upon the thought That chance will bring us through; But our own acts, for good or ill, are mightier powers.

Your happiness and suffering depend on your actions and not on my wishes for you.

Where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power to not act.

This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.

You always have a choice. Don't ever imagine you don't. Whatever you do, it's a decision and you have to accept responsibility for it. That's when honor becomes more than empty words.

I am inclined to believe that a man may be free to do anything he pleases if only he will accept responsibility for whatever he does.

Man is a social animal formed to please in society.

Due to circumstances beyond my control, I am master of my fate and captain of my soul.

If you should see people in a room, you would not think that you had made those people, or that you were responsible for them.

Civilisation is a conspiracy.

We can now destroy or we can cherish-the choice is ours.

Choices may be unbelievably hard but they're never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts.

What you do comes from what you think.

If we empower ourselves with responsibility over our actions, responsibility over our destinies and responsibility for directing and maintaining and creating our own ethical and moral frameworks, which is the most important thing really isn’t it because perhaps the greatest insult to humanism is this idea that mankind needs a god in order to have a moral framework.

As a general principle you should not force young men to do their duty, but let them do it voluntarily and thereby develop their characters.