Sentences with phrase «individual irresponsibility»

For some this suggested approach to improving matters will be counter-intuitive and I accept it is chicken - and - egg: individual irresponsibility calls for more management, but too much management dulls individual responsibility.

The nod was to the view that social problems are not caused by institutional defects in the government or marketplace but by individual irresponsibility — hence the solution is to change hearts and minds one by one.

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Experience, however, soon showed in what way they were to become the most dangerous; that the insufficiency of the means provided for their removal gave them a freehold and irresponsibility in office; that their decisions, seeming to concern individual suitors only, pass silent and unheeded by the public at large; that these decisions, nevertheless, become law by precedent, sapping, by little and little, the foundations of the consti.tution, and working its change by construction, before any one has perceived that that invisible and helpless worm has been busily employed in consuming its substance.

But considering the human toll the state's continued irresponsibility takes on individuals and families struggling with mental illness, it is shameful.

It feeds on individuals» sloth and irresponsibility.»