Responsibility to the Future
We wrap up this week’s quotes on responsibility with some thoughts on the long view.
A lot of the world’s current problems probably stem from the fact that most people think of responsibility in terms of short-term personal duty. Maybe we need to maintain a longer view.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
- Abigail Van Buren
Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.
- Jonas Salk
In times like these men should utter nothing for which they would not be willingly responsible through time and in eternity.
- Abraham Lincoln
We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
- Richard P. Feynman