“I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.”
“I was court-martialed in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.”
“When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.”
“Do I agree that with privilege comes responsibility? The answer is no. I believe that responsibilities arise when one undertakes them voluntarily. I also believe that in the absence of explicit contracts, people who lecture other people on their "responsibilities" are almost always up to no good.”
“A common lament of the World War II generation is the absence today of personal responsibility ”
“You and I are bound. We will be each other’s salvation, or each other’s doom.”