Quotes About Responsibility

The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.

When writing isn't going well-then the bad thing about being a writer is that I also have the freedom and flexibility to do something badly, and no one else can fix it for me.

Freedom is not enough.

The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.

Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.

A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite

So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleepi

Only where we ourselves are responsible for our own interests and are free to sacrifice them has our decision moral value. We are neither entitled to be unselfish at someone else's expense nor is there any merit in being unselfish if we have no choice. The members of a society who in all respects are made to do the good thing have no title to praise.

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.

Freedom bestows on us the priceless gift of opportunity - if we neglect our opportunities we shall certainly lose our freedom

Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free

I tell Thee that man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find some one quickly to whom he can hand over that gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes the right important

When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.

There are two freedoms; The false, where man is free to do what he likes; The true, where man is free to do what he ought.

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.