shared culpability Quotes

Few are guilty, but all are responsible.

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.

Because everyone is guilty for everyone else. For all the 'wee ones,' because there are little children and big children. All people are 'wee ones.' And I'll go for all of them, because there must be someone who will go for all of them.

No-fault guilt: This is when, instead of trying to figure out who's to blame, everyone pays.

No individual rain drop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

[There is] an increasing tendency among modern men to imagine themselves ethical because they have delegated their vices to larger and larger groups.

And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone.

To those who say Ted Bundy should burn forever in eternity I would only say, so should I, so should all of us.

Collective crimes incriminate no one.

Membership in a conspiracy, as in an army, frees people from the sense of personal responsibility.

I have become convinced, through my studies, that the only way to achieve a safe, just and viable world is to live by the Golden Rule. This is what drives my writing. I want to point out this interconnectedness, point out the beauty of the faith in all traditions without exception, show the complexity of the atrocities that we have experienced, and our shared culpability as a species.

We are all both victims and victimizers. Just as everyone suffers, no one is innocent of causing suffering themselves.

The men who have gotten women pregnant need to be accountable if we are. If we are going to jail, the men are coming too. Religious rhetoric will bite its own ass trying to nail only women in a two-person process.