David Cage Quotes

But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it.

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

A man is accountable to no person for his doings.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

I'd much rather have the freedom, and the obligation to use it responsibly, than be put in a box.

Only by taking responsibility for oneself, to the greatest extent possible, can one ever be free, and only a free person can make responsible choices - between right and wrong, saving and spending, giving or taking.

Freedom comes with a lot of responsibility. When you are by yourself, you have to develop a third eye.

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

Freedom and responsibility aren't interconnected things. They are the same thing.

The way I look at it, I'd rather make my own mistakes than have people make them for me.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.

McCabe's Law: Nobody has to do anything.

My grandfather was a man, when he talked about freedom, his attitude was really interesting. His view was that you had obligations or you had responsibilities, and when you fulfilled those obligations or responsibilities, that then gave you the liberty to do other things.

What is nice about this sport is that I am responsible for most everything.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

If you make up your own mind, you can only blame yourself.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

I'm completely in charge of my own life now. Sometimes there's no one there to slap me on the hand and say: 'Stop being so bullish and bossy,' and things like that.

When you don't have anybody to take care of you, then you could go both ways: You could do whatever you want, or you could take charge and be your own parent.

Control your own destiny or someone else will.

Self Control, Not State Control

True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to well, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to do.