D. H. Lawrence Quotes

I'd much rather have the freedom, and the obligation to use it responsibly, than be put in a box.

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

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

I think the real free person in society is one that's disciplined. It's the one that can choose; that is the free one.

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 the right to choose the habits that bind you.

Well you don’t have to do it.

I have never believed that man's freedom consisted in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not want to do.

He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.

Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

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.

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.

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.

Freedom is not the absence of obligation or restraint, but the freedom of movement within healthy, chosen parameters.

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 only have control over what I do.

If you can't do something willingly and joyfully, then don't do it.

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

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

No one is free who does not lord over himself.

I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.