Thomas Huxley Quotes

The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me.

True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.

Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

Implicit in true freedom of spirit lies a proud and virile will. Such glorious power of free will to choose, envisages beneficent social responsibility as manifest and welcome.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Even though I'm young, I really try to do the right thing.

Let men decide firmly what they will not do, and they will be free to do vigorously what they ought to do.

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

We are accountable for our actions as we exercise our moral agency. If we understand this principle and make righteous choices, our lives will be blessed.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

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

Doing the right thing has power.

You do what you want and know is right. That is the only law.

I see bad stuff on the street all the time that I don't do anything about. I do bad stuff myself all the time. The goal is not to somehow be perfect - that's silly, that's naive. The goal is to just recognize there are choices in front of us, and to try to make better ones.

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

I think people have to take responsibility for their own actions.

No man shall be more exacting of me or my conduct than I am of myself.

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

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

I've always felt like we're all human beings and we're all basically given the tools to make whatever choices we want to make. How we treat other people. How we treat ourselves. Just the whole philosophy of that and the philosophical logic of that is that we're all capable of great acts of evil, and we're all capable of great acts of good.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one.