Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

A person's either responsible for themselves or we're all responsible for each other.

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

It is time to break the bad habit of expecting something for nothing from our Government or from each other. Let us all take more responsibility not only for ourselves and our families but our communities and our country.

The most dangerous aspect of contemporary life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility.

I don't believe in collective guilt, but I do believe in collective responsibility.

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.

Each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity.

I'd have to say I've become more aware of my communal responsibility.

There is no public out there who needs to change. It's each one of us.

We are accountable for each other.

Freedom & Duty always go hand in hand and if the free do not accept the duty of social responsibility, they will not long remain free.

The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves.

The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.

Having an experience is taking part in the world. Taking part in the world is really about sharing responsibility.

Man must now assume the responsibility for his world. He can no longer shove it off on religious power.

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.

I do not believe in collective guilt.

I think it's the responsibility of every human being, not just those who wear the identity of poet, activist, voter, religious person... it's the responsibility of every person. Our responsibility is to use our intelligence as clearly and coherently as we possibly can.

When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility.

We do good by ourselves, but we seldom do wrong alone.

Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular job. It lies with each of us individually.

You cannot change any society unless you take responsibility for it, unless you see yourself as belonging to it and responsible for changing it.

You deserve whoever governs you ... Everyone is responsible for the actions of their leaders.

You have to recognise your responsibility to your community for your actions. Liberty doesn't mean that you are not held accountable. Without accountability, there can be no freedom. I know it seems like a paradox.

Does a human being know the responsibility he has to himself and to all of mankind