And if we do nothing in a world full of suffering then we are responsible too.
At the center of the zodiac-like circle are always a pig, a snake and a rooster, representing the three delusions responsible for suffering: greed, hatred and ignorance.
Sir Colin Stansfield Smith, who has died aged 80 after suffering a stroke, was responsible for changing the face of local authority architecture in Britain.
Unless a person was so out of touch with reality that he didn't know he was committing a crime, he could be found criminally responsible despite suffering from severe mental illness.
He was a willing tool of the cold war, the key figure in America's and apartheid South Africa's destruction of independent Angola's nationalist ambitions, and responsible for suffering and death on a scale barely comprehensible outside his ruined country.
In his 1980 book, "The Belief in a Just World: A Fundamental Delusion," Melvin Lerner, a social psychologist, argued that people want to believe in the inherent justice of the economic system in which they live, and want to believe that people who appear to be suffering are in fact responsible for their own situations.
The Buddha agreed with those of his contemporaries embarked on the same soteriological project that it is ignorance about our identity that is responsible for suffering.
The key components of the Homeowner Affordability and Stability Plan are: 1. Affordability: Provide Access to Low-Cost Refinancing for Responsible Homeowners Suffering From Falling Home Prices.
Despite numerous studies investigating the causes of hypercoagulability and thromboembolic complications in patients suffering from malignancy, the responsible mechanisms remain poorly understood [ 18].
Evidence submitted by Ellis's lawyers two days before her hanging included witnesses testifying to the repeated beatings that David Blakely, jealous of her involvement with Cussen, had inflicted on Ellis and that she believed he was responsible for her suffering a miscarriage three days before the murder.
