Richard Nixon: A Fantasy by David Frye (1973)
„I was responsible for everything so I accept responsibility and blame but show me, comrade, one document proving that I was personally responsible for the deaths.“
— Pol Pot
As reported by David Ashley (1995) and quoted in Brother Number One (1999) by David P. Chandler
Attributed
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Generalsekretär der kommunistischen Partei Kambodschas 1925 - 1998Ähnliche Zitate
— Jean Paul Sartre, buch Being and Nothingness
Part 4, Chapter 1, III
Being and Nothingness (1943)
Kontext: I am responsible for everything … except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my being. Therefore everything takes place as if I were compelled to be responsible. I am abandoned in the world … in the sense that I find myself suddenly alone and without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant.
— Gordon Brown British Labour Party politician 1951
On the Damian McBride email scandal reported by The Daily Telegraph
" Brown 'sorry' over e-mail slurs http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8002085.stm", BBC News, 16 April 2009
Prime Minister
— İsmail Enver Turkish military officer and a leader of the Young Turk revolution 1881 - 1922
In reply to US Ambassador Morgenthau who was deploring the massacres against Armenians and attributing them to irresponsible subalterns and underlings in the distant provinces. Quoted in "The burning Tigris: the Armenian genocide and America's response" - Page 374 - by Peter Balakian - History - 2003.
— Karl Dönitz President of Germany; admiral in command of German submarine forces during World War II 1891 - 1980
To Leon Goldensohn, July 14, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004.
„I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it.“
— Arthur Miller, After the Fall
Quentin in After the Fall (1964) Act II
After the Fall (1964)
— Albert Einstein German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity 1879 - 1955
Quelle: Attributed in posthumous publications, Einstein and the Poet (1983), p. 89
Kontext: The God Spinoza revered is my God, too: I meet Him everyday in the harmonious laws which govern the universe. My religion is cosmic, and my God is too universal to concern himself with the intentions of every human being. I do not accept a religion of fear; My God will not hold me responsible for the actions that necessity imposes. My God speaks to me through laws.
„I believe we're responsible for everything that happens to us.“
— Yanni Greek pianist, keyboardist, composer, and music producer 1954
Yanni in Words. Miramax Books. Co-author David Rensin
— Benazir Bhutto 11th Prime Minister of Pakistan 1953 - 2007
Destiny’s daughter (2007)
Kontext: My father always would say, "My daughter will go into politics? My daughter will become prime minister", but it’s not what I wanted to do. I would say, "No, Papa, I will never go into politics." As I’ve said before, this is not the life I chose; it chose me … But I accepted the responsibility and I’ve never wavered in my commitment.
— Sean Sellers American murderer 1969 - 1999
The Confession of My Crimes
— Mao Zedong Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China 1893 - 1976
Speech At The Lushan Conference http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-8/mswv8_34.htm (23 July 1959)
— Juan Felipe Herrera American writer 1948
We prefer “freedom”, we want to be as free as we can, but freedom and responsibility can go together. We’re responsible because we’re writers, and we’ve been at this all our lives…
On the poet having both responsibility and freedom in “Interview with Juan Felipe Herrera” https://gulfstreamlitmag.com/archives/online-archives/current-issue-4/features/interview-with-juan-felipe-herrera/ (Gulf Stream, 2015)
— Boris Yeltsin 1st President of Russia and Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR 1931 - 2007
Interview on Russian television (2000), as quoted in the BBC Obituary (23 April 2007) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6584481.stm
2000s
„…if what I say is responsible, I alone am responsible for the saying of it…“
— Edward R. Murrow Television journalist 1908 - 1965
RTNDA Convention Speech (1958)
