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irresponsibility

«Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.»
«But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.»
«Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical, sentimental irresponsibility and when it is a valid expression of our deepest desires and values.»
«Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.»
Author: James Joyce | Keywords: irresponsibility, schools
«What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid all its perfumed and hypnotic inducements to mate, a tireless tribe of spirochetes and viruses that torture and kill us for following orders?»
«I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go Communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people»