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Noam Chomsky Quotes about Responsibility

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Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, it’s unlikely you will step up and take responsibility for making it so. If you assume that there’s no hope,

Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, it’s unlikely you will step up and take responsibility for making it so. If you assume that there’s no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there’s a chance you may contribute to making a better world. The choice is yours.

Leadership, Believe, Responsibility

To live a life of honesty and integrity is a responsibility of every decent person.

Honesty, Integrity, Responsibility

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There is a social responsibility to take care of vulnerable people. It seems that a sensible social responsibility is obligatory education, but also decent education, and that is not happening.

Responsibility, People, Care

"Noam Chomsky: Drug Cartels and the Growing Border War". Interview with Luis Fernando Cárdenas, chomsky.info. August 15, 2011.

The term "intellectual" is used conventionally to refer to people who happen to have unusual opportunities in this regard, and as always, opportunity confers moral responsibility.

Responsibility, Opportunity, People

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The more privilege you have, the more opportunity you have. The more opportunity you have, the more responsibility you have.

Responsibility, Opportunity, Privilege

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.

Responsibility, Intelligent, Power

Interview on BBC's "The Late Show", November 25, 1992.

The responsibilities of someone in a more free and open society are, again obviously, greater than those who may pay some cost for honesty and integrity.

Honesty, Integrity, Responsibility

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As for academics, I do not see why their responsibilities as moral agents should differ in principle from the responsibilities of others; in particular, others who also enjoy a degree of privilege and power, and therefore have the responsibilities that are conferred by those advantages.

Responsibility, Privilege, Principles

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I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog, but I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.

Dog, Children, Responsibility

"The Responsibility of Intellectuals" by Noam Chomsky, www.nybooks.com. April 20, 1967.

Those lucky enough to qualify as "intellectuals" have their own special responsibilities, deriving from their good fortune. Among these is the task that [Edward] Said describes, surely an important one.

Responsibility, Special, Important

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Occupying armies have responsibilities, not rights. Their primary responsibility is to withdraw as quickly and expeditiously as possible, in a manner determined by the occupied population.

Responsibility, Army, Rights

"How can America get out of Iraq?" by Noam Chomsky, Jonathan Schell, Howard Zinn and William Polk, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2004.

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

Believe, Responsibility, Privilege

"Question time" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2003.

The responsibility of the writer as a moral agent is to try to bring the truth about matters of human significance to an audience that can do something about them.

Responsibility, Trying, Agents

Noam Chomsky (1996). “Powers and Prospects: Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.56, Pluto Press

The old-fashioned idea is that responsibility falls upon those who borrow and lend. Money was not borrowed by campesinos, assembly plant workers, or slum-dwellers. The mass of the population gained little from borrowing, indeed often suffered grievously from its effects.

Fall, Responsibility, Ideas

"The people always pay". www.theguardian.com. January 21, 1999.

It also seems beyond controversy that moral responsibilities are greater to the extent that people "have the resources, the training, the facilities and opportunities to speak and act effectively."

Responsibility, Opportunity, People

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[Moral responsibilities] has nothing particular to do with academia, except insofar as those within it tend to be unusually privileged in the respects just mentioned.

Responsibility, Academia, Moral

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A more appropriate expansion is the statement "it is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies" a transcript of a talk to a writers conference in Australia in 1996, where I had been asked to talk on "writers and intellectual responsibility" - a question that I said I found "puzzling," because I knew of nothing to say about it beyond truisms, though these were perhaps worth affirming because they are "so commonly denied, if not in words, then in consistent practice."

Lying, Responsibility, Practice

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In general, we should be able to agree that those who have greater opportunities and face fewer impediments have a greater responsibility to do more to help achieve such ends.

Responsibility, Opportunity, Able

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