Matthew Tobin Anderson Quotes

Each decision - to kill, to sign a petition, to write a letter, to make a speech, to attack, to lie, to surrender - was made at some point in somebody's day.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

Everybody's got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it's the choices we make that define who we really are.

All good men and women should be on their guard to avoid guilt, and even the suspicion of it.

I'd rather believe in my own choice and see it all go wrong than do something I'm not fully convinced of and later feel guilty about it.

A human being is a deciding being.

If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.

I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws.

Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.

My conscience is clear.

We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

Whether it's making a film or raising my children, personally I'm striving to do the right things and to learn.

You only have the burdens on you that you choose to put there.

When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.

It is the ability to choose which makes us human.

God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

I've always believed in people's capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I'm not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness.

A man's character is his fate.

Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.

I'm really only responsible for my own actions.

As contemporary history reminds us we are human to the extent that we are able to chose between alternatives.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.