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| Why do children want to grow up? Because they experience their lives as constrained by immaturity and perceive adulthood as a condition of greater freedom and opportunity. But what is there today, in America, that very poor and very rich adolescents want to do but cannot do? Not much: they can "do" drugs, "have" sex, "make" babies, and "get" money (from their parents, crime, or the State). For such adolescents, adulthood becomes synonymous with responsibility rather than liberty. Is it any surprise that they remain adolescents? (Thomas Szasz) | [▲] | [▼] |
| With every civil right there has to be a corresponding civil obligation. (Edison Haines) | [▲] | [▼] |
| I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty. (Bill Maher) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. (Erica Jong) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted; they have torn me, and I bleed. I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed. (Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage) | [▲] | [▼] |
| When you blame others, you give up your power to change. (Unknown) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular. (Bernard M. Baruch) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. (Albert Ellis) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Duty is what one expects from others. (Oscar Wilde) | [▲] | [▼] |
| For me the diamond dawns are set In rings of beauty, And all my ways are dewy wet With pleasant duty. (John Townsend Trowbridge) | [▲] | [▼] |
| A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed. (William James) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow. (Henry S. Haskins) | [▲] | [▼] |
| You are not responsible for the programming you picked up in childhood. However, as an adult, you are one hundred percent responsible for fixing it. (Ken Keyes, Jr.) | [▲] | [▼] |
| God has entrusted me with myself. (Epictetus) | [▲] | [▼] |
| We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until... we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say "I lost it." (Sidney J. Harris) | [▲] | [▼] |
| It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action. (Stanley Milgram) | [▲] | [▼] |
| When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself. (Louis Nizer) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Whether or not you have children yourself, you are a parent to the next generation. If we can only stop thinking of children as individual property and think of them as the next generation, then we can realize we all have a role to play. (Charlotte Davis Kasl, Finding Joy) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. (Dietrich Bonhoeffer) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us. (Woodrow Wilson) | [▲] | [▼] |