Kingsley Amis Quotes

One thing I want you to understand is if I make a decision, it's my decision.

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

It was a question of helping a man prepare in the way that suits him best. The theory is if you give a man responsibility for his own actions, then it is up to him to accept that responsibility.

I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.

The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.

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

Take responsiblilty for yourself because no one's going to take responsibility for you.

If you choose not to live self-responsibly, you count on others to make up your default. No one abjures self-responsibility on a desert island.

Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.

When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.

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

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.

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

Grown men do not need leaders.

A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.

In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.

My dad has no control over who works with me. Me, me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything.

There's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin' it.

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

Iraq assumes responsibility for its own future... They have got to step up.

We are ultimately alone in that we are ultimately responsible for ourselves.

Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want.

I didn't push Cory. I wanted him to decide if he wanted to go into boxing and he did. Can't blame it on me.

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.

If you want someone to show up and help you if something bad happens, you'd better tell someone where you're going. And of course I wanted someone to know - but I'd made a choice and it was a choice I was going to have to live with.