Mutual Responsibility Quotes

You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people.

We recognize and accept our own deep involvement in the destiny of men everywhere.

Transparency is key to reciprocal accountability, which we use to be both free and smart. It is the miracle tool that enables us to question the lies of monsters.

For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.

Right therefore and obligation are, as logicians express it, correllative terms; one of these ideas necessarily supposes the other; and we cannot conceive a right without a corresponding obligation.

A decent society is not based on rights. It is based on duty. Our duty to one another. To all should be given opportunity; from all responsibility demanded.

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

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

We do not wish to say only that a man is responsible for his own individuality, but that he is responsible for that of all men.

The world owes us nothing; we owe each other the world.

It takes two to destroy a marriage.

Reciprocal accountability, or criticism [is] the only known antidote to error.

I expect a lot. And, I hold my teammates accountable and they've got to hold me accountable.

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

We say yes to the society of solidarity and democracy where free people together, in mutual respect and under mutual responsibility, shape a life where everyone has equal opportunities and equal value.

It takes two hands to clap.

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.

Chung Yu asked the Master about government, and was answered:] Require of others only what you have first taught them.

It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it.

Healing yourself is connected with healing others.

another tradition to politics, a tradition (of politics) that stretched from the days of the country’s founding to the glory of the civil rights movement, a tradition based on the simple idea that we have a stake in one another, and that what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart, and that if enough people believe in the truth of that proposition and act on it, then we might not solve every problem, but we can get something meaningful done.

Now, do I think there has to be shared sacrifice among other nations in the world who want a stable and secure world? Absolutely, there has to be. But I don't think that America can ever abdicate its leadership role in the world because of who we are and where we've come from. We are the symbol for the world for freedom and liberty.

I devoutly believe that there is no difficulty between two people for which both are not responsible.

Social progress makes the well-being of all more and more the business of each.

In the name of freedom, there has to be a correlation between rights and duties, by which every person is called to assume responsibility for his or her choices, made as a consequence of entering into relations with others.