Dean Koontz Quotes About Responsibility
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Atlas isn't carrying the world on his shoulders, no giant muscular hulk with a sense of responsibility; the world is balanced on a pyramid of clowns, and they are always tooting horns and wobbling and goosing each other.
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The human species was too fond of lying, cheating, envy, ignorance, self-pity, self-righteousness, and utopian visions that always led to mass murder-but until and if it destroyed itself, it harbored the potential to become nobler, to take responsibility for its actions, to live and let live, and to earn the stewardship of the earth.
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But victimhood was seductive, a release from responsibility and caring. Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation; failure would no longer generate guilt but, instead, would spawn a comforting self-pity.
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We have a responsibility to stand watch over one another, we are watchers, all of us, watchers, guarding against the darkness.
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The world howls for social justice, but when it comes to social responsibility, you sometimes cant even hear crickets chirping.
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Your sense of responsibility to others can never be excessive.
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