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REPUTATION --- RESEARCH --- RESENTMENT
RESOLUTION(S)
RESPECT --- RESPECTABILITY --- RESPONSIBILITY

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REPUTATION

see: "APPLAUSE"
see: "FAME"
see: "GLORY"
see: "GOSSIP"
see: "GREATNESS"
see: "HONOR"
see: "POPULARITY"
see: "RUMOR"
see: "SCANDAL"
see: "CHARACTER" for other related links


There is nothing that more betrays a base
ungenerous spirit than the giving of secret
stabs to a man's reputation. Lampoons
and satires, that are written with wit and
spirit, are like poisoned darts, which not
only inflict a wound, but make it incurable.
--Joseph Addison (1672—1719)
English essayist, poet, and dramatist.
"The Spectator" [27 March 1711]

The devil's most devilish when respectable.
--Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806—1861)
English poet.
"Aurora Leigh" [1857]

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Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall
where it will. And outlive the bastards.
--Lois McMaster Bujold (b. 1949)
American science fiction author.
_A Civil Campaign_ [1999]


Reputation is what other people know about
you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
--Lois McMaster Bujold (b. 1949)
American science fiction author.
_A Civil Campaign_ [1999]

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Speak with contempt of no man. Every one hath a tender
sense of reputation. And every man hath a sting, which he
may, if provoked too far, dart out at one time or other.
--Robert Burton (1577—1640)
English scholar, cleric, and author.

[T]he three most serious losses which a man can suffer are those
affecting money, health, and reputation. Loss of money is far the
worst, then comes ill-health, and then loss of reputation; loss of
reputation is a bad third, for, if a man keeps health and money
unimpaired, it will be generally found that his loss of reputation
is due to breaches of parvenu conventions only, and not to
violations of those older, better established canons whose
authority is unquestionable. In this case a man may grow a new
reputation as easily as a lobster grows a new claw, or, if he have
health and money, may thrive in great peace of mind without
any reputation at all.
--Samuel Butler (1835—1902)
English novelist, essayist, and critic.
_The Way of All Flesh_ [1903]

Be more concerned with your character than
with your reputation. Your character is what
you really are while your reputation is
merely what others think you are.
--Dale Carnegie (1888—1955)
American writer and lecturer.

There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be
praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is
best, however, to secure the former, because it will be
invariably accompanied by the latter.
--C.C. Colton (1780—1832)
English clergyman and writer.
_Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words; Addressed to Those Who Think_ [1820]

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing
opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things
that other people think about us.
--Quentin Crisp [Denis Pratt] (1908—1999)
English writer.
_How to Become a Virgin_, ch. 2 [1981]

Speak with contempt of no man. Every one hath a tender
sense of reputation. And every man hath a sting, which he
may, if provoked too far, dart out at one time or other.
--Thomas Fuller (1654—1734)
English writer and physician.
Comp., _Introductio ad Prudentiam_ [1731]

On the choice of friends,
Our good or evil name depends.
--John Gay (1685—1732)
English poet and dramatist.
_Fables_ [1727]

The world sees only the reflection of merit; therefore when you
come to know a really great man intimately, you may as often
find him above as below his reputation.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749—1832)
German poet, novelist, and playwright.
In John Stuart Blackie _The Wisdom of Goethe_ [1883].

Like the tiger, that seldom desists from pursuing man after having
once preyed upon human flesh, the reader, who has once gratified
his appetite with calumny, makes ever after, the most agreeable
feast upon murdered reputation.
--Oliver Goldsmith (1728—1774)
Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and dramatist.
_The Traveller; Or, A Prospect of Society_ [1764]

A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man
can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge;
and only himself can damage that. His reputation is what men say
he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is
for eternity.
--John Bartholomew Gough (1817—1886)
English-born American social reformer.
Quoted in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert
_Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers_, p. 46 [1895].

A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired,
but the world will always keep their eyes on the
spot where the crack was.
--attributed to both Joseph Hall (1574—1656) &
Josh Billings [Henry Wheeler Shaw] (1818—1885).

[O]nce a man gets a reputation as a liar, he might
as well be struck dumb, for people do not listen
to the wind.
--Robert A(nson) Heinlein (1907—1988)
American science-fiction writer.
_Citizen of the Galaxy_ [1957]

The only happy author in this world is he
who is below the care of reputation.
--Washington Irving (1783—1859)
American author, essayist, and travel book writer.
_Tales of a Traveller_, pt. II "The Poor-Devil Author" [1824]

Good will, like a good name, is got
by many actions and lost by one.
--Lord Francis Jeffrey (1773—1850)
Literary critic and Scottish judge.

The art of putting into play mediocre qualities
often begets more reputation than is achieved
by true merit.
--Fran็ois de La Rochefoucauld (1613—1680)
French classical author.

Character is like a tree and reputation like its
shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the
tree is the real thing.
--Abraham Lincoln (1809—1865)
American Republican statesman, President [1861—1865].

You probably wouldn't worry about what
people think of you if you could know
how seldom they do.
--Olin Miller

The best apology against false accusers is silence and
sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest
words.
--John Milton (1608—1674)
English poet.

You wish people to believe good of you?
Don't speak.
--Blaise Pascal (1623—1662)
French mathematician, physicist, and moralist.

At every word a reputation dies.
--Alexander Pope (1688—1744)
English poet.
_The Rape of the Lock_ [1712], canto III, l. 16

A good reputation is more valuable than money.
--Publilius Syrus (85—43 B.C.)
Latin writer of mimes who was originally a slave.
_Maxims_

No, you can't ruin an architect by proving that he's a bad architect.
But you can ruin him because he's an atheist, or because somebody
sued him, or because he slept with some woman, or because he
pulls wings off bottleflies. You'll say it doesn't make sense? Of
course it doesn't. That's why it works. Reason can be fought with
reason. How are you going to fight the unreasonable? The trouble
with you, my dear, and with most people, is that you don't have
sufficient respect for the senseless. The senseless is the major
factor in our lives. You have no chance if it is your enemy. But if
you can make it become your ally — ah, my dear!
--Ayn Rand (1905—1982)
Russian-born American writer.
_The Fountainhead_ [1943], pt. II, ch. 12

To be good and to be ill spoken of by the people
Is better than to be bad and considered good by them.
--Sa'di [Muslih-uddin] (c. 1213—1292)
Iranian poet.
_The Gulistan, or Rose Garden_ [A.D. 1258]
tr. Edward Rehatsek [1964]

Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls:
Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing:
'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;
But he that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him,
And makes me poor indeed.
--"Iago" in William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist,
_Othello_ [1602—1604]

He whose honor depends on the opinion of the
mob must day by day strive with the greatest
anxiety, act and scheme in order to retain his
reputation. For the mob is varied and inconstant,
and therefore if a reputation is not carefully
preserved it dies quickly.
--Benedict de Spinoza (1632—1677)
Dutch-Jewish philosopher, the foremost exponent
of 17th century Rationalism.
_Ethics_ [1677] pt. III

Convey a libel in a frown.
And wink a reputation down.
--Jonathan Swift (1667—1745)
Anglo-Irish poet and satirist.
"The Journal of a Modern Lady" [1728]

The reputation of a man is like his shadow,
gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy
in its proportions when it follows.
--Alexandre-Ang้lique de Talleyrand-P้rigord (1736—1821)
French Archbishop of Reims [1777—1790].

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.
--Henry David Thoreau (1817—1862)
American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher.
_Walden_, ch. I "Economy" [1854]

The good opinion of honest men, friends to
freedom and well-wishers to mankind, wherever
they may be born or happen to reside, is the
only kind of reputation a wise man would
ever desire.
--George Washington (1732—1799)
American general and commander-in-chief of the
colonial armies in the American Revolution [1775—1783]
and first president of the United States [1789—1797].
In a letter to Edward Pemberton [20 June 1788].

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Associate yourself with men of good quality if
you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better
to be alone than in bad company.
--anon.
Found in George Washington's hand-copied "Rules of Civility" [c. 1747];
collected in Charles Moore _George Washington's Rules of Civilty and
Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation_ [1926].

Reputation is what men and women think of us;
character is what God and angels know of us.
--anon.
Sometimes attributed to Thomas Paine or Horace Mann.

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aspersion (noun) [๊-'sp๊r-zh๊n]
An act of slander, impugning, or besmirching (a reputation).



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RESEARCH

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see: "DISCOVERY" for related links


Basic research is what I am doing
when I don't know what I am doing.
--Wernher von Braun (1912—1977)
German-born American rocket engineer.
In R.L. Weber _A Random Walk in Science_ [1973].

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The four stages of acceptance:

1. This is worthless nonsense.
2. This is an interesting, but perverse, point of view.
3. This is true, but quite unimportant.
4. I always said so.
--J.B.S. Haldane (1892—1964)
Scottish mathematical biologist.
(Referring to the stages scientific theory often goes through.)

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If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you
steal from many, it's research.
--Wilson Mizner (1876—1933)
American playwright.
Quoted in: Alva Johnston, _The Legendary Mizners_, ch. 4 [1953].

Breast cancer and AIDS aren't among the leading killers. Among
diseases, breast cancer is ninth, AIDS 18th. Yet in 2001, AIDS
research got $4,439 per patient from NIH, breast cancer $290,
Parkinson's $175. Diabetes, which killed more people than AIDS
and breast cancer combined, got $41. Heart disease, the number
one killer, got just $58 per patient.
--John Stossel (b. 1947)
American television journalist and author.
_Give Me A Break_ [2005]

Basic research may seem very expensive. I am
a well-paid scientist. My hourly wage is equal
to that of a plumber, but sometimes my research
remains barren of results for weeks, months or
years and my conscience begins to bother me for
wasting the taxpayer's money. But in reviewing
my life's work, I have to think that the expense
was not wasted. Basic research, to which we owe
everything, is relatively very cheap when compared
with other outlays of modern society. The other
day I made a rough calculation which led me to the
conclusion that if one were to add up all the money
ever spent by man on basic research, one would
find it to be just about equal to the money spent
by the Pentagon this past year.
--Albert von Szent-Gy๖rgyi (1893—1992)
Hungarian-born biochemist; winner of the 1937 Nobel prize for Medicine.

Trust him to find where the nuts and berries grow.
--Henry David Thoreau (1817—1862)
American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher.
"Journal" [20 October 1857]

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exegesis (noun)
Analysis of texts: the explanation or interpretation
of texts, especially religious writings

heuristic (adj.) [hyur-'is-tik]
Related to a speculative formulation serving as a guide
in the investigation or solution of a larger problem.



RESENTMENT

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see: "EMOTIONS & FEELINGS" for related links
see: "UNHAPPINESS" for related links


Life appears to me too short to be spent
in nursing animosity or registering wrong.
--Charlotte Bront๋ (1816—1855)
British author.

Resentment is like drinking poison and
waiting for the other person to die.
--Carrie Fisher (1956— )
American actress and writer.

The gloomy and the resentful are always found
among those who have nothing to do or who
do nothing.
--Samuel Johnson (1709—1784)
English poet, critic, and lexicographer.
_The Idler_ [1 September 1759]

Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly
than the passion of resentment.
--Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844—1900)
German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture.
_Ecce Homo_ [1888]

To carry a grudge is like being stung
to death by one bee.
--William H. Walton

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dudgeon (noun) [DUH-juhn]
A state or fit of intense indignation; resentment;
ill humor - often used in the phrase "in high dudgeon."
Ex.: This woman is forever in a state of spiritual high
dudgeon, and a list of her dislikes is as long as the
Omaha phone book.
--Jim Harrison,
_The Road Home_

rancor [RANG-ker], noun:
Bitter resentment or ill will; extreme hatred or spite.

umbrage (noun) ['๊m-brij]
1: Shadow, shade.
2: Offence or resentment.



RESOLUTION(S)

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see: "DECISION & DEDICATION"
see: "DETERMINATION"
see: "HAPPY NEW YEAR"
see: "NEW YEAR"
see: "PERSEVERANCE"
see: "PLANS"
see: "PURPOSE"
see: "SOLUTION"
see: "SUCCESS"
see: "WILL"
see: "ZEAL"


There are few situations in life that cannot be
resolved promptly, and to the satisfaction of
all concerned, by either suicide, a bag of gold,
or thrusting a despised antagonist over a
precipice on a dark night.
--Ernest Bramah [Ernest Bramah Smith]
(1868—1942) British author.

One resolution I have made, and try
always to keep, is this: "To rise
above little things."
--John Burroughs (1837—1921)
American naturalist and writer.

I'll turn over a new leaf.
--Miguel de Cervantes (1547—1616)
Spanish novelist.
_Don Quixote de la Mancha_, pt. II, bk. iii, ch. xiii [1615]

Let us resolve to do the best we can with what we've got.
--William Feather (1889—1981)
American author and publisher.
Attributed in Paul Dickson _Toasts: Over 1,500 of the Best
Toasts, Sentiments, Blessings, and Graces, p. 159 [1991].

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Be at war with your vices, at peace with your
neighbors, and let every new year find you a
better person.
--Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790)
American politician, inventor, and scientist.
Attributed in _Memphis Medical Monthly_, vol. XXI [March 1901].


Each year, one bad habit rooted out, in
time ought to make the worst man good.
--attributed to Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790)
American politician, inventor, and scientist.

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I *will be* as harsh as truth and as uncompromising
as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or
speak, or write, with moderation. No! No! Tell a man
whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell
him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of
the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate
her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but
urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the
present. [...] I am in earnest—I will not equivocate—
I will not excuse—I will not retreat a single inch—
AND I will be heard.
--William Lloyd Garrison (1805—1879)
American abolitionist and reformer.
In the first issue of the "Liberator" [1 January 1831].

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Ira Gershwin (1896—1983)
American lyricist.

Gershwin was a keen poken player, but very unlucky.
After a particularly disastrous evening, he announced
to his friends, "I take an oath, I'll never pick up a card
again.' After a moment's pause, he added, 'Unless, of
course, I have guests who want to play . . . Or, unless
I am a guest in another man's house.' He paused again.
'Or whatever circumstances arise.'

--_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_
edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andr้ Bernard [2000 ed.]

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In love, in war, in conversation, in business,
confidence and resolution are the principal
things.
--William Hazlitt (1778—1830)
English essayist.
"On the Qualifications Necessary to Success in Life"
_Table Talk_ [1821—1822]

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the
ability to make yourself to do the thing you have to do
when it ought to be done whether you like it or not. It
is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however
early a person's training begins, it is probably the last
lesson a person learns thoroughly.
--T.H. (Thomas Henry) Huxley (1825—1895)
English biologist {grandfather of Aldous Huxley}.
_Collected Essays_, Vol. 3 [1896];
quoted In Larry Chang
_Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of
Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing_, p. [2006].

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less.
Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly
destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable,
and others extremely difficult.
--Samuel Johnson (1709—1784)
English poet, critic, and lexicographer.
Letter to James Boswell [7 December 1782].

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill,
that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any
hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure
the survival and success of freedom.
--John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917—1963)
American Democratic statesman, President of the U.S. [1961—1963].
Inaugural Address [20 January 1961].

I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the year's.
--Henry Moore (1898—1986)
British artist and sculptor.

In matters of great concern, and which must be done, there
is no surer argument of a weak mind than irresolution; to be
undetermined, where the case is so plain, and the necessity
so urgent; to be always intending to live a new life, but never
to find time to set about it: this is as if a man should put off
eating, and drinking, and sleeping, from one day and night
to another, till he is starved and destroyed.
--John Tillotson (1630—1694)
Archbishop of Canterbury [1691-1694].
Quoted in S. Austin Allibone
_Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay_, p. 366 [1876].

New Year's Day - Now is the accepted time to make your regular
annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with
them as usual.
--Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910)
American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot.
Quoted in Victor Doyno (ed.)
_Mark Twain: Selected Writings of an American Skeptic_ [1983]

Good resolutions are simply checks that
men draw on a bank where they have
no account.
--Oscar Wilde (1854—1900)
Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet.

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d้nouement (noun) [de-nu-'moN]
The final resolution and clarification of a plot following
its climax; the final, climactic unraveling of a mystery
or other complex situation.



RESPECT

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see: "APPROVAL"
see: "HONOR"
see: "SELF-ESTEEM"
see: "SELF-RESPECT"
see: "CIVILITY" for other related links


By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory;
the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
--George Bancroft (1800—1891)
American historian and public official.
_The Last Moments of Eminent Men_ (essay)

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to
become their property that they may more perfectly respect
it.
--G.K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton (1874—1936)
English essayist, novelist, and poet.
_The Man Who Was Thursday_, ch. 4 [1908]

[Catchphrase:]
I don't get no respect.
--Rodney Dangerfield [Jacob Cohen]
(1921—2004) American comedian.
Quoted in "N.Y. Times" [14 June 1970].

If you want to be respected by others the great
thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by
self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
--Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821—1881)
Russian novelist, journalist, and short story writer.
_The Insulted and the Injured_ [1861]

Everyone should be respected as an
individual, but no one idolized.
--Albert Einstein (1879—1955)
German-American physicist who developed the
special and general theories of relativity.
"My Credo", _Wisdom_, [January 1956]

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.
--Baltasar Graciแn (1601—1658)
Spanish Jesuit philosopher.
_The Art of Worldly Wisdom_, CCLXXXIV [1647]

Treating your adversary with respect is giving him
an advantage to which he is not entitled.
--Samuel Johnson (1709—1784)
English poet, critic, and lexicographer.
Quoted in James Boswell, _The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides_ [1786],
entry of 15 August 1773.

There is no other way of guarding oneself
against flattery than by letting men
understand that they will not offend
you by speaking the truth; but when
everyone can tell you the truth, you
lose their respect.
--Niccol๒ Machiavelli (1469—1527)
Florentine statesman and political philosopher.
_The Prince_ [written 1513] ch. 23

We must respect the other fellow's religion,
but only in the sense and to the extent that
we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful
and his children smart.
--H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (1880—1956)
American journalist and literary critic.
_Minority Report: H.L. Mencken's Notebooks_ [1956]

Will you still respect me in the morning?
--"N.Y. Times" [11 October 1979]

This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for
those who can be of no possible service to him.
--William L. Phelps (1865—1943)
American educator, journalist, and man of letters.
Attributed in _The Law Society Journal_, vol. 10
(pub. by Law Society of Massachusetts) [1942].

When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now
that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming
and going.
--attributed to J.B. [John Boynton] Priestley (1894—1984)
English novelist, playwright and critic.

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arriviste [a-ree-VEEST], noun:
A person who has recently attained success, wealth, or high
status but not general acceptance or respect; an upstart.
Ex.: He excavates enough dirt that, midway through the book, the reader
loses sympathy with Bernays, who comes across as an insufferable
egotist and insecure, name-dropping arriviste.
Ron Chernow, "First Among Flacks" _New York Times_ [16 August 1998]

obeisance [oh-BEE-suhn(t)s; oh-BAY-suhn(t)s], noun:
1. An expression of deference or respect, such as a bow or curtsy.
2. Deference, homage.
Ex. : In all, it had served to create a highly restrictive
society where the arrogance of superiors was as ingrained
as their subordinates' fawning obeisance.
--Robert Whiting, "Tokyo Underworld"

redoubtable [rih-DOW-tuh-buhl], adjective:
1. Arousing fear or alarm; formidable.
2. Illustrious; eminent; worthy of respect or honor.
Ex.: At the head of the table, as committee chair, sat the
redoubtable Howard Mumford Jones--a teacher famed
even at Harvard for his fierce authority, his wide-ranging
erudition, and his intolerant exacting preciseness.
--Nicholas Delbanco,
_The Lost Suitcase: Reflections on the Literary Life_

venerate [VEN-uh-rate], verb:
To treat someone or something with deep respect,
reverence or deference; revere.
Ex.: The pre-eminent authority on the English
language, the much-venerated Oxford English
Dictionary.
--Bruce Hoffman, "Inside Terrorism"



RESPECTABILITY

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see: "CHARACTER" for related links


The more things a man is ashamed of,
the more respectable he is.
--George Bernard Shaw (1856—1950)
Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, Socialist
propagandist, and winner of the Nobel Prize
for Literature in 1925.
_Man and Superman_, 1 [1903]

Respectibility, n. The social status of people
whose sins haven't quite caught up to them.
--Edmund H. Volkart (1919—1992)
_The Angel's Dictionary: A Modern Tribute to Ambrose Bierce_ [1986], p. 165.



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RESPONSIBILITY

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see: "DUTY"
see: CHARACTER for other related links
see: SUCCESS for other related links


If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility
for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll
always be its victim.
--Richard Bach (1936— )
American writer.
_Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit_ [1994]

Responsible people are mature people who
have taken charge of themselves and their
conduct, who *own* their actions and *own
up* to them — who *answer* for them.
--William J. Bennett (1943— )
American poiltician and author.
_The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories_, 3 [1993]

RESPONSIBILITY, n. A detachable burden
easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate,
Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days
of astrology it was customary to unload it
upon a star.
--Ambrose Bierce (1842—1914)
American newspaperman, wit, and satirist.
_The Cynic's Word Book_ [1906]
(Retitled in 1911 as _The Devil's Dictionary_.)

Do what thy manhood bids thee do,
from none but self expect applause;
He noblest lives and noblest dies who
makes and keeps his self-made laws.
--Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821—1890)
English scholar-explorer and Orientalist.
The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi. or. “Lay of the Higher Law” [1880]

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Calvin Coolidge (1872—1933), 30th
President of the United States [1923—1929].

President Coolidge had a group of guests on the
presidential yacht cruising the Potomac. As he
stood alone at the rail, looking out at the expanse
of water, someone exclaimed, 'Look at that slight
and slender figure! Look at that head, bowed over
the rail! What thoughts are in the mind of this
man, burdened by the problems of the nation?'
Finally, Coolidge turned around, and joined the
others, saying, 'See that sea gull over there?
Been watching it for twenty minutes. Hasn't
moved. I think he's dead!'

--_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_
edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andr้ Bernard [2000 ed.]

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He on whom heaven confers a sceptre knows not the weight till he bears it.
--Pierre Corneille (1606—1684)
French dramatist.
"H้raclius", I, i [1647]

Today more than ever before life must be characterized
by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation
to nation and human to human, but also human to other
forms of life.
--Dalai Lama [Lhama Thondup or Lhama Dhondrub]
(1935— ) spiritual head of Tibetan Buddhism.
(Dalai Lama is Mongolian for "Ocean of Wisdom")
_A Cry from the Forest_ [1987]

I do not like giving advice: it is incurring
an unnecessary responsibility.
--Benjamin Disraeli (1804—1881)
British Tory statesman, novelist, and Prime Minister [1868, 1874—1880].
Attributed in Charles Noel Douglas
_Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical_ [1904].

People tend to forget their duties but
remember their rights.
--Indira Gandhi (1917—1984)
Prime Minister of India [1966—1977] and [1980-1984].
She was assasinated by Sikh extremists.

Do not be so wary of making enemies or of displeasing
others that you neglect your obligations.
--Francesco Guicciardini (1483—1540)
Florentine historian and statesman.
_Remembrances_

We have not passed that subtle line between
childhood and adulthood until we move from
the passive voice to the active voice — that
is, until we have stopped saying "It got
lost," and say "I lost it."
--Sydney J. Harris (1917—1986)
American journalist.
_On the Contrary_ [1962]

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education
is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you
like it or not. It is the first lesson that ought
to be learned and however early a man's training
begins, it is probably the last lesson that he
learns thoroughly.
--T.H. (Thomas Henry) Huxley (1825—1895)
English biologist {grandfather of Aldous Huxley}.

When a man assumes a public trust, he should
consider himself as public property.
--Thomas Jefferson (1743—1826)
American statesman and president [1801—1809].
1807 letter to Baron von Humboldt,
in B.L. Rayner _Life of Jefferson_ [1834].

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
--Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (1909—1966)
Polish writer.
_More Unkempt Thoughts_ [1968]

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most
far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.
--Stanley Milgram (1933—1984)
American psychologist.
_Obedience To Authority_ [1974], ch. 1

Moral responsibility is not just a matter of avoiding
harm to others; it also means helping people in need.
--Michael Nedelsky,
South Dakota educator [19 October 1987]

One of the annoying things about believing in free
will and individual responsibility is the difficulty
in finding someone to blame your troubles on.
And when you do find someone, it's remarkable
how often their picture turns up on your driver's
license.
--P.J. O'Rourke (1947— )
American political satirist.

To give up the task of reforming society is to
give up one's responsibility as a free man.
--Alan Stewart Paton (1903—1988)
South African author.
Article in "The Saturday Review" [1967].

I believe that every right implies a responsibility;
every opportunity, an obligation; every possession,
a duty.
--John D(avison) Rockefeller Jr. (1874—1960)
American philanthropist.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words;
it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the
long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves.
The process never ends until we die. And the choices
we make are ultimately our responsibility.
--Eleanor Roosevelt (1884—1962)
American human rights activist, diplomat, and
wife of U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
In Mark D. Bennett _A Field Guide to Good Decisions:
Values in Action_, Intoduction p. xiii [2006].

The first requisite of a good citizen in this Republic
of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull
his weight.
--Theodore Roosevelt (1858—1919)
American Republican statesman and President [1901—1909].
Speech in New York City [11 November 1902].

The basic reason why moderns disbelieve in hell
is because they really disbelieve in freedom and
responsibility. To believe in hell is to assert
that the consequences of good and bad acts are
not indifferent.
--Fulton John Sheen (1895—1979)
Roman Catholic bishop; the first popular
preacher to appear on television.
_Preface To Religion_ [1946]

The salvation of mankind lies only in making
everything the concern of all.
--Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918— )
Russian novelist.

Being in a position to know and nevertheless
shunning knowledge creates direct responsibility
for the consequences — from the very beginning.
--Albert Speer (1905—1981)
First architect of the Third Reich.
_Inside the Third Reich_ [1970]

The ultimate result of shielding men from the
effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
--Herbert Spencer (1820—1903)
English philosopher.

I know this — a man got to do what he got to do.
--John Steinbeck (1902—1968)
American novelist.
_The Grapes of Wrath_, ch. 18 [1939]

A man may not be responsible for his actions
in an hour of tribulation and pain.
--Talmud (A.D.1st-6th cent.)
Rabbinical writings.

So many worlds, so much to do,
So little done, such things to be.
--Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809—1892)
English poet.
"In Memoriam A. H. H." canto 106 [1850]

Sir Edward Gibbon, author of The Decline and Fall of the Roman
Empire, wrote tellingly of the collapse of Athens, which was the
birthplace of democracy. He judged that, in the end, more than
they wanted freedom, the Athenians wanted security. Yet they
lost everything — security, comfort, and freedom. This was
because they wanted not to give to society, but for society to
give to them. The freedom they were seeking was freedom
from responsibility. It is no wonder, then, that they ceased to
be free.
--Margaret Thatcher (1925— )
British conservative stateswoman and Prime Minister [1979—1990].
"The Moral Foundations of Society,"
Lecture in Hillsdale [Michigan] College's Center for Constructive
Alternatives seminar, "God and Man: Perspectives on Christianity
in the 20th Century" [November 1994].

Every living creature that comes into the world has something
allotted to him to perform, therefore he should not stand an
idle spectator of what others are doing.
--Sarah Kirby Trimmer (1741—1810)
English author of children's books, educational
works, and textbooks.
_Fabulous Histories_ [1821]

The Buck Stops Here.
--Sign on Harry Truman's desk, quoted in "Washington Post" [15 December 1946].
According to Fred R. Shapiro in _The Yale Book of Quotations_, p. 770 [2006],
"The phrase is now firmly associated with Truman but appears to have an
older history. The Reno (Nev.) "Evening Gazette" 1 Oct. 1942, printed a
photograph of a sign clearly reading THE BUCK STOPS HERE on the desk of
Army Colonel A.B. Warfield. Jonathan Lighter, editor of the "Historical Dictionary
of American Slang,"reports that he found these words in the periodical "Our
Army" from the early or mid-1930s; the exact reference remains untraced."

It is our responsibilities, not ourselves,
that we should take seriously.
--Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov [1921—2004]
British entertainer, writer, and humanitarian.
Quoted in "Iron and Steel" [Iron & Steel Institute, 1969].

Few things help an individual more than to place
responsibility upon him and to let him know that
you trust him.
--Booker T. Washington (1856—1915)
African-American educator.
_Up From Slavery_ [1901], ch. XI "Making Their Beds..."

[Calvin:] Do you believe our destinies are determined by the stars?
[Hobbes:] Nah.
[Calvin:] Oh, _I_ do.
[Hobbes:] Really? How come?
[Calvin:] Life's a lot more fun when you're not responsible for your actions.
--Bill Waterson II (1958— )
American cartoonist, creator of "Calvin and Hobbes."
_Weirdos From Another Planet_, 1990, p. 25


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