Samuel Sydney McClure Quotes

The emphasis has been on rights, not responsibilities. When it comes to piecing together the fragments of broken lives, we have tended to place the entire burden on the state and its agencies.

We too often prefer the individual thrill to collective responsibility.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.

There has to be a social commitment, a social consciousness that joins men together. On the basis of their coming together, they do not transgress against themselves and they do not transgress against others.

I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else.

The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.

The more the power of men and women increases, the greater is their responsibility as individuals and as members of the community.

We do ourselves in and expect society to pick up the tab.

There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.

The love of individual freedom has stood in the way of the appreciation of social obligations.

Since men are social by nature they are meant to live with others and to work for one another's welfare

The public interest is more than the sum total of the interest groups.

It's hard to mobilize various interest groups ... when its for the benefit of everyone.

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...

Everyone carries a part of society on his shoulders; no one is relieved of his share of responsibility …

I am only one. But I am one. I cannot do everything. But I can do something. What I can do I ought to do. What I ought to do I will do

The world does not owe any man a living, but we all owe one another a living.

Modern society places an emphasis on individual responsibility, whereas Islam places an emphasis on collective responsibility and the family.

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

The burden of citizenship is accepting that what is neither your fault nor your responsibility may be your problem.

We cannot shirk responsibility from concerns for the welfare of the next generation.

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

Frontiersman ideas of individualism stand exposed as we realise just how much our actions impact others.