David Horowitz Quotes

With freedom goes responsibility, a responsibility that can only be met by the individual himself.

Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

People need responsibility. They resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it.

I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.

A man is accountable to no person for his doings.

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 believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions, insofar as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all.

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

I still totally believe in individual rights and individual responsibility and in choosing to do good.

Freedom is not the same as lack of accountability.

The great escape of our times is escape from personal responsibility for the consequences of one's own behavior.

Freedom & Duty always go hand in hand and if the free do not accept the duty of social responsibility, they will not long remain free.

We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.

And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based.

I don't think anybody can be held accountable or responsible for anyone's behaviors expect the individual. This goes beyond that particular situation.

Each individual in fact has moral responsibility for the acts which he personally performs; no one can be exempted from this responsibility, and on the basis of it everyone will be judged by God himself.

Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.

I am inclined to believe that a man may be free to do anything he pleases if only he will accept responsibility for whatever he does.

Liberty is not a right but a duty.

With freedom comes responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk has not ended yet.

Only individuals have a sense of responsibility.

Responsibility cannot be shared.