To be responsible is to be the uncontested author of an event or thing.
The painful secret of gods and kings is that men are free, Aegistheus. You know it and they do not.
My pessimism has never been flabby.
It's just what people do when they're getting old, when they're sick of themselves and their life; they think of money and take care of themselves.
If you seek authenticity for authenticity's sake you are no longer authentic.
When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.