Kevin Powers Quotes

Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.

Freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority.

There is no shame in black athletes not wanting to be role models, but there should be shame when they don't behave like one. It's a free country and people can do whatever they want. But just because we can doesn't mean we should.

I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise.

Obedience to the law is itself a moral duty.

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

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions, insofar as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

Rights! There are no rights whatever without corresponding duties.

We've placed a lot of emphasis in this country on the idea of people's rights. That's how it should be, but it makes no sense to talk about rights without also talking about responsibilities.

It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice

Freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.

Liberty is not a right but a duty.

Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.

No one is responsible under liberalism.

People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.

But we must create in each person a sense of responsibility in order that each one of us can have the right to enjoy all his rights.

Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with it. At the same time, I don't believe in being so rigid about controlling what happens either.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.

I want freedom and I realize that the only way to get it is to quit breaking the law.

In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue.