“A man is worthy of praise or blame solely on account of those actions which lie within his power to do or not to do.”
Leonardo da Vinci (verified)
“We cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individual. Toward this end, each of us must work toward his own highest development, accepting at the same time his share of responsibility in the general life of humanity—our particular duty being to help those to whom we feel we can be most useful.”
— Marie Curie (verified, secondary source)“You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.”
— Richard Feynman (verified)“As we must account for every idle word, so we must for every idle silence.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)