Social Responsibility Quotes

“Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man’s inhumanity to man.”
― Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

“In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.”
― Robert McKee, Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting

“I suggest you write I love you in your daily diary when we hang up so that you can refer to it should you ever develop that need to read those words again.”
― Shafter Bailey, James Ed Hoskins and the One-Room Schoolhouse: The Unprosecuted Crime Against Children

“The job facing American voters… in the days and years to come is to determine which hearts, minds and souls command those qualities best suited to unify a country rather than further divide it, to heal the wounds of a nation as opposed to aggravate its injuries, and to secure for the next generation a legacy of choices based on informed awareness rather than one of reactions based on unknowing fear.”
― Aberjhani, Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

“If I have the means, I have the responsibility to employ them.”
― Terry Brooks, The Scions of Shannara

“The world howls for social justice, but when it comes to social responsibility, you sometimes can't even hear crickets chirping.”
― Dean Koontz, Deeply Odd

“Again the greatest use of a human was to be useful. Not to consume, not to watch, but to do something for someone else that improved their life, even for a few minutes.”
― Dave Eggers, A Hologram for the King

“শিল্পীর সামাজিক দায়িত্ব সম্পূর্ণ আছে। সামাজিক দায়িত্ব যারা এড়িয়ে চলে তারাও সামাজিক দায়িত্ব পালন করছে। অর্থাৎ তারা ওপরতলার শুয়োরের বাচ্চাদেরকে সাহায্য করছে। সামাজিক দায়িত্ব প্রত্যেকেই পালন করছে।”
― Ritwik Ghatak, নিজের পায়ে নিজের পথে

“If there is shit all around me, how can I eat my ice cream?”
― S Balaram

“Order is nothing but a friendship with chaos.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Ingan Impossible: Handbook of Hatebusting

“Always remember that with privilege comes responsibility. You must go to Casa Azul and see the place you came from. Only then will you be able to understand how far you've come.”
― Sandra Rodriguez Barron, Stay with Me: A Novel

“It's not my fault. It's not your fault. It's no one's fault. If we keep telling ourselves that, then who should all the victims of the world go to for their apology?”
― Kim Hye-Jin, Concerning My Daughter

“There are even those who say that they are merely minding their own business, whether out of concern for their family's wealth, or from a general distaste for human interaction. And, indeed, they don't seem to do anyone harm. But in escaping one kind of injustice they run right into another, in that they abandon the social aspect of life, giving it no attention, effort or assistance.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Living and Dying Well

“What is hateful is not rebellion but the despotism which induces rebellion; what is hateful are not rebels but men, who, having the enjoyment of power, do not discharge the duties of power; they are men who, having the power to redress wrongs, refuse to listen to the petitioners that are sent to them; they are the men who, when they are asked for a loaf, give a stone.”
― Wilfred Laurier, Speech Delivered by Rt. Hon. Sir Wilfrid Laurier P. C., G. C. M. G., M. P., on the Occasion of a Banquet Tendered by the Montreal Reform Club at the ... Wednesday, May 29, 1912

“What’s it have to do? Renè, who originally fought the House of Magnu? Our ancestors! Who were the first people conquered? Our ancestors! Why would Trinity appoint such a violent lineage of human beings to kill people or in a best-case situation, let them live like this?” She flashed her X’d hands.

“Because of the crimes we committed against the Native Tamurians all those years ago.”

Mali pointed to herself. “We didn’t commit those crimes. Our ancestors did. For some odd reason, no one here seems to understand that.”
― T.C. Marti, Spirit and Fire

“We must not weave tales that harm our children; their well-being and future depend on the stories we tell.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya, Slipping into another world

“Awake, arise, oye Hazrat-e-Humanity!
Put aside doctrines, prioritize people.
To hell with honoring cockups as courage,
every generation must wield their chisel.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“When I left home in the morning, I believed the world was driven by selfishness. But it turns out, it’s filled with kind people—and by evening, I happily returned home.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya, Slipping into another world

“No one is asking you to apologize for your privilege. They’re asking you to use it for those who don’t have it.”
― M. Gonzales

“No one is asking you to apologize for your privilege. They’re asking you to use it for those who don’t have it.”
― M. Gonzalez

“The story of my life is always embedded in the story of those communities from which I derive my identity. I am born with a past; and to try to cut myself off from that past, in the individualist mode, is to deform my present relationships.”
― Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue

“Whenever, wherever, fanaticism weaponizes fear, human hearts gotta rise, abandoning tranquility. Whenever chowderheads infringe on love and reason, time be my testament - My World, My Responsibility!”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“You are a living powerhouse of love and good, question is, will you be brave and come true?”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“Change often rises not as a crashing wave,
but as a relentless tide,
quietly reshaping all in its path.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“All governments are a facade,
all politicians are merely actors.
In a civilized world citizen is the leader,
obsolete is the profession of world leaders.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“In a civilized world citizen is the leader, obsolete is the profession of world leaders.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“I have spent my life advocating for religious freedom, a cause that has brought me face to face with the heart-wrenching stories of victims of forced conversions, the misuse of blasphemy laws, and survivors of mob violence. I felt their pain as if it was my own.”
― Qamar Rafiq

“Shahbaz Bhatti blood has not only baptized the cause of religious freedom but also marked the path toward religious freedom turning it from a right into a sacred responsibility.”
― Qamar Rafiq

“Every child deserves more than just a viral moment. They deserve a safe, happy, and dignified childhood. There are thousands of ways to earn money, but childhood is too precious to put a price on. Let it remain beyond the reach of the money-making system.”
"childhood is not for sell, children are not content”
― Mohammed Zaki Ansari, The Silent Crisis

“It costs the comedian nothing to stop telling fat, homophobic, and transphobic jokes. Nothing! If they couldn't get someone to laugh outside of those contexts, they should consider a new profession.”
― Joy Arlene Renee Cox, Fat Girls in Black Bodies: Creating Communities of Our Own