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"The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort."
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"And despite the insignificance of the instant we have so far occupied in cosmic time, it is clear that what happens on and near Earth at the beginning of the second cosmic year will depend very much on the scientific wisdom and the distinctly human sensitivity of mankind."
"We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civilized world. We've come to the point where it's irresponsible to try to protect them from the irrational world they will have to live in when they grow up. The children themselves haven't yet isolated themselves by selfishness and indifference; they do not fall easily into the error of despair; they are considerably braver than most grownups. Our responsibility to them is not to pretend that if we don't look, evil will go away, but to give them weapons against it."
"Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause."
"A responsible woman is one who sees opportunities of service and responds to them quickly. In her dwells the ability to see and respond to opportunities."
"Accept responsibilities for all your actions. Learn from your past and your mistakes."
"Christians don't the moral right to be indifferent."
"The devil may not be interested in preventing you from knowing the undone job. What he may do is to make you think it's somebody's job and not yours."
"We have a duty to care for the environment."
"Stop the blame game, you can't win it! All fans of blame are defeated in every way... Don't join them!"
"Your life is your responsibility. Choose the right paths for journey of a life time."
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"The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else."
"The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying his wastes before releasing them."
"Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable."
"However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious."
"A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero."
"Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed."
"Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum."
"A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future."
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