This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Patti Smith, fully Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith
These things were in my mind from the first moment I entered the vocal booth. The gratitude I had for rock and roll as it pulled me through a difficult adolescence. The joy I experienced when I danced. The moral power I gleaned in taking responsibility for one's action.
Gratitude | Joy | Mind | Power | Responsibility |
Businesses who are members of Businesses for Social Responsibility or the Social Venture Network are internalizing costs on a voluntary basis and therefore raising their costs of doing business, but their competitors are not required to.
Paul Tillich, fully Paul Johannes Tillich
Does anyone really believe he can escape from the responsibility for what he has done and thought in secret?… The center of our whole being is involved in the center of all being; and the center of all being rests in the center of our being.
Responsibility | Thought | Thought |
My whole life, I think about love as a form of voluntary slavery. Well, a lie: freedom only exists when love is present. He brings him or her integrity, perfect, people feel the most freedom lovers with all my heart. And love with all my heart feels free. That's because why, despite what I might experience, do or learn, nothing meaningful at all. I hope this time will pass quickly, so I can start the search for himself - a man who will understand me and did not hurt me. But I'm saying? In love, no one can harm anyone; we must take responsibility for their own feelings and not blame others for what we feel. Being hurt when I gradually beat lost the man I loved. But now, I believe that no one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. It's true experience of freedom: to be the most important things in this world without owning it.
Blame | Experience | Feelings | Freedom | Harm | Heart | Hope | Important | Love | Man | Nothing | People | Responsibility | Search | Time | Will | World | Think | Understand |
The Latin word responsibility reveals its true meaning: the capacity to respond, to act.
All religions lead to the same God, and all deserve the same respect. Anyone who chooses a religion is also choosing a collective way for worshipping and sharing the mysteries. Nevertheless, that person is the only one responsible for his or her actions along the way and has no right to shift responsibility for any personal decisions on to that religion… Although I have the colors, only the Lord can mix them with such harmony… A prayer couched in the words of the soul is far more powerful than any ritual.
Lord | Prayer | Religion | Responsibility | Right | Soul | Words |
No one should let themselves get used to anything… No one wants their life thrown into chaos at all. That's why many people holding back the threat level under control, and that's the way they are able to prop up a house or structure has rotted. They are the architects of innovation. Others think the opposite: they surrender themselves without a second thought; they hope to find in the passion that the method solves all their problems. They force people to take responsibility for their happiness, and blame those people because they were not happy. They are in an excited state because of the magic has happened or depressed because things just do not expect the destruction of all. Alkali keep the passion, or surrender it blindly-way, less destructive The most extreme? I do not know.
Blame | Force | Hope | Life | Life | Magic | Method | Passion | People | Responsibility | Surrender | Wants | Think |
Peter F. Drucker, fully Peter Ferdinand Drucker
In most discussions of the social responsibility of business it is assumed that making a profit is fundamentally incompatible with social responsibility or is at least irrelevant to it.
Business | Responsibility | Business |
Peter F. Drucker, fully Peter Ferdinand Drucker
Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank.
Authority | Cooperation | Knowledge | Means | Obedience | Responsibility | Thought | Thought |
Peter F. Drucker, fully Peter Ferdinand Drucker
The proper social responsibility of business is to tame the dragon–that is, to turn a social problem into economic opportunity and economic benefit, into productive capacity, into human competence, into well-paid jobs, and into wealth.
Business | Opportunity | Responsibility | Business |
Peter F. Drucker, fully Peter Ferdinand Drucker
It is the increasingly important responsibility (of management) to create the capital that alone can finance tomorrow’s jobs. In a modern economy the main source of capital formation is business profits.
Business | Important | Responsibility | Business |
Peter F. Drucker, fully Peter Ferdinand Drucker
The more knowledge-based an institution becomes, the more it depends on the willingness of individuals to take responsibility for contribution to the whole, for understanding the objectives, the values, the performance of the whole, and for making themselves understood by the other professionals, the other knowledge people in the organization.
Knowledge | People | Responsibility | Understanding |
Peter F. Drucker, fully Peter Ferdinand Drucker
The first responsibility of business is to make enough profit to cover the costs for the future. If this social responsibility is not met, no other social responsibility can be met.
Business | Enough | Responsibility | Business |
Peter F. Drucker, fully Peter Ferdinand Drucker
The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say I. And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say I. They don't think I. They think we; they think team. They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but we get the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.
Responsibility | Work | Think | Understand |
Peter F. Drucker, fully Peter Ferdinand Drucker
Primum non nocere – first, do no harm – is the first responsibility of a professional, as spelled out in the Hippocratic Oath. As the physicians found out long ago, this apparently modest requirement is far from easy. It requires a far-reaching understanding of the impact of our actions on another person or on a society, and a willingness to think through our effect on others.
Harm | Responsibility | Understanding | Think |
Peter F. Drucker, fully Peter Ferdinand Drucker
The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.
Responsibility | Work |
Peter F. Drucker, fully Peter Ferdinand Drucker
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer… Because it is its purpose to create a customer, any business enterprise has two — and only these two—basic functions: marketing and innovation… Marketing is so basic that it is not just enough to have a strong sales department and to entrust marketing to it. Marketing is not only much broader than selling; it is not a specialized activity at all. It encompasses the entire business. It is the whole business seen from the point of view of its final result, that is from the customer’s point of view. Concern and responsibility for marketing must therefore permeate all areas of the enterprise.
Business | Enough | Purpose | Purpose | Responsibility | Business |
Peter F. Drucker, fully Peter Ferdinand Drucker
Social responsibility objectives need to be built into the strategy of a business, rather than merely be statements of good intentions.
Good | Need | Objectives | Responsibility |
September 11 was the overpowering reminder that this is no longer the age of self-indulgence and entertainment, but the age of total and profound personal and collective responsibility and accountability.
Age | Responsibility |
Throughout the history of our economy, personal responsibility and accountability have been the foundation. But it never has been as strong, comprehensive, and thorough as it will be from here forward.
History | Responsibility | Will |