Jonah Hill Quotes

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

You just have to be strong and don't be stupid; freedom of choice is a big responsibility.

Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.

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.

Yes, we have the freedom to do what we please, but it only works because we don't do everything we might please - we should exercise some degree of personal, and corporate, responsibility.

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

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

I know what you're going to say! 'They are men, and men should be free.' A free man is dangerous to himself and everyone else. Freedom should be left to those who can put it to good use.

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

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.

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

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

Self Control, Not State Control

What man's mind can create, man's character can 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.

Men are not free when they are doing just what they like. The moment you can do just what you like, there is nothing you care about doing.

It's a free country. I know we have a lot of regulations in the world right now in what we can and can't do. I would rather our people be responsible and not have to be regulated.

I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.

I don't want to get on the treadmill of earning more money. I'd rather live cheaply and allow myself more freedom. I can honestly say I've never taken a film just for the dough, although I've made some ghastly mistakes.

Integrity in the Moment of Choice: Quality of life depends on what happens in the space between stimulus and response.

Discipline must come through liberty.

Liberty is the right to discipline ourselves in order not to be disciplined by others

The problem with not having anybody to tell you what to do, I understood, is that there was nobody to tell you what not to do.

True freedom is not the liberty to do anything we please, but the liberty to do what we ought; and it is genuine liberty because doing what we ought now pleases us

Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.