Dave Sim Quotes

When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.

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

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

Self Control, Not State Control

Freedom is good when the person can use it appropriately. Otherwise it is a disaster.

When one has genuinely chosen a course for oneself it cannot be possible to hold another responsible for it.

Those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.

The disciplined are free.

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.

How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?

Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the moment he allows his actions to be ruled by passion.

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

It is up to us to make the right choice and the right decisions.

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.

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

I only have control over what I do.

None of us whether Men or Women but have so good an Opinion of our own Conduct as to believe we are fit, if not to direct others, at least to govern our selves.

It's absolutely true that unless you can instill discipline upon yourself, you will never be able to lead others.

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.