The West has finally achieved the rights of man . . . but man's sense of responsibility to God and society has grown dimmer and dimmer.Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn quoted by Cornelius Plantinga Jr., Not the Way It's Supposed to Be: A Breviary of Sin, 173.
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on rights trumping responsibility
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4 comments:
really like the new photo of you and deb.
nAncY,
Thanks.
That was this summer in Dallas, at night high up in a slowly turning structure overlooking the city, when we visited my sister there.
Nice quote by Solzhenitsyn. I almost get the feeling sometimes that people think being irresponsible is a right.
Diane,
Yes. Responsibility doesn't seem to have the place in society that rights do, for sure. Though people find out that they can't really live that way, or live well that way.
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