John Steinbeck Quotes

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

Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

A man is accountable to no person for his doings.

I must be responsible and accountable for my actions.

True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to well, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to do.

Anything which tends to bring a greater sense of responsibility to individuals should be encouraged.

Freedom comes with responsibility.

People are supposed to be responsible.

We need to hold ourselves accountable for the work we do and the choices we make.

It's the sense of duty that keeps you going sometimes when things get very, very rough. Somebody's got to do it. And if you don't, who will?

No one is responsible under liberalism.

I think you need to make responsibility something that's not just a word.

Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility.

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.

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.

Liberty means responsibility. That's why most men dread it.

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

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.

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.

McCabe's Law: Nobody has to do anything.