Quotes about Responsibility

Thus, logotherapy sees in responsibleness the very essence of human existence

that no one has the right to do wrong, not even if wrong has been done to them.

ultimately responsible for the state of the prisoner's inner self was not so much the enumerated psychophysical causes as it was the result of a free decision.

Freedom is but the negative aspect of the whole phenomenon whose positive aspect is responsibleness.

I therefore felt responsible for writing down what I had gone through, for I thought it might be helpful to people who are prone to despair.

Man is that being which invented the gas chambers; but he is at the same time that being which walked with head held high into these very same gas chambers, the Lord's Prayer or the Jewish prayer for the dead on his lips.

the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.

It did not really matter what we expected from life but rather what life expected from us.

never permit the patient to pass to the doctor the responsibility of judging.

that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from

in the final analysis it becomes clear that the sort of person the prisoner became was the result of an inner decision, and not the result of camp influences alone.

In fact, freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.