A Quote by Frank Herbert

Membership in a conspiracy, as in an army, frees people from the sense of personal responsibility.

Frank Herbert

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Army Conspiracy Membership People Personal Personal Responsibility Responsibility Sense

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Frank Herbert
American - Writer
October 8, 1920 - February 11, 1986

It is only people with a sense of personal responsibility who can help others. It is only people with a sense of personal responsibility who can be helped in a lasting way.

Eric Sevareid

Innovation grows out of membership and a sure sense of responsibility people feel for their work and the organizations that employ them.

Abraham Zaleznik

Everything is a conspiracy. People kind of demonize the word. But a conspiracy is when two people get together and do something. So, if more than one person does something, it's a conspiracy. The revolution was a conspiracy, Iran Contra, Watergate.

Richard Belzer

The media, far from being a conspiracy to dull the political sense of the people, could be viewed as a conspiracy to disguise the extent of political indifference.

David Riesman

The greater the number of prescriptions, the more people's sense of personal responsibility dwindles.

Hans Monderman

Socialism has been preached for so long, the British people no longer have any sense of personal responsibility.

Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet

One of the reasons for conspiracy theories is an assumption that people in high places always know what they are doing. When they do something that makes no sense, devious reasons are imagined by conspiracy theorists, when in fact it may be due to plain old ignorance and incompetence.

Thomas Sowell

Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.

George Orwell

I stand for limited government, fiscal responsibility, personal freedom, personal responsibility, so the Republican Party will support me.

Rick Scott

But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it.

Esther Dyson

There is a Party of fiscal responsibility... economic responsibility... social responsibility... civic responsibility... personal responsibility... and moral responsibility. That party is the Democratic Party.

Howard Dean

The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent. Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behavior, just as money frees people from work.

George Orwell

Many people believe that dealing with overweight and obesity is a personal responsibility. To some degree they are right, but it is also a community responsibility. When there are no safe, accessible places for children to play or adults to walk, jog, or ride a bike, that is a community responsibility.