Ugo Betti Quotes

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.

Whoever can, should.

At the end of the day, everyone is repsonsible for their own contracts. Nobody forced us to sign them.

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.

McCabe's Law: Nobody has to do anything.

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.

Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber.

Everybody's got to do what they've got to do.

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

Belief, like love, must be voluntary.

I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent.

Being responsible, I will direct, and will be responsible for nothing that I do not direct.

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

It is never easy to cleanly distinguish freedom and duty, consent and bondage, choice and compulsion.

I don't feel I owe anyone anything.

Freedom comes with responsibility.

The first principle of freedom is the right to go to hell in your own handbasket.

To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.

You are free to choose. You are not free not to choose. No choice is a choice. You are free to choose but you are not free to choose the consequences of that choice.

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

I'm responsible.

I have a strong sense of responsibility. I like to be directed, it's true. If I didn't like that, I'd do something else.

Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.