Simon Rich Quotes

We are not naughty children, and the state is not our parent.

'Good Times' is a story about the loss of innocence, how adults are responsible for their actions but children aren't.

A personal code of conduct that you follow is far better than a social code of conduct that you are forced to follow.

The future success of our Nation depends on our children's ability to understand the difference between right and wrong and to have the strength of character to make the right choices. To help them reach their full potential and live with integrity and pride, we must teach our children to be kind, responsible, honest, and self-disciplined. These important values are first learned in the family, but all of our citizens have an obligation to support parents in the character education of our children

It is not size or age that separates children from adults. It is responsibility.

We cannot teach children the danger of telling lies to men without realising, on the man's part, the danger of telling lies to children. A single untruth on the part of the master will destroy the results of his education.

Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.

I think that's good that I have to watch how I act and what I say. I think that's a part of growing up.

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

Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children - children lie all the time.

Part of the satisfaction of tattling surely comes from showing oneself to adults as a good moral agent, a responsible being who is sensitive to right and wrong. But I would bet that children would tattle even if they could do so only anonymously. They would do it just to have justice done.

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.

I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.

I'm really only responsible for my own actions.

You have to eventually grow up and take control of your life, which is very hard to do.

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

I must be responsible and accountable for my actions.

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

In judging character in youth, we recognize, first of all, that it is a mark of soundness in a boy's nature that he is spurred by desire of praise: upon this rests emulation

If there is one thing that our role models in this election have taught us, it's that omitting important information is completely different from lying.

America wasn't made on blame; it was made on responsibility. Take off the training wheels in life and decide to take responsibility for your actions.

You better have your story down before you take it to a teenager.

When I was younger I got accused of gamesmanship but I grew out of it.