"Writing is not an activity that features social responsibility as an option. Writing is social responsibility. When you write, you are being responsible to some social entity even if that entity is yourself. You can be irresponsible as a writer, but you cannot be nonresponsible."

Keith Gilyard, "The Social Responsibility that Writing is--and Writing Instruction Too"

"It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs, but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason, when the use of rational speech is more distincitive of human being than the use of his limbs."

Aristotle, Rhetorica