D. H. Lawrence Quotes

Freedom requires responsibility to choose who we are above and beyond our immediate impulses, needs, and social pressures, so that we can genuinely express the type of person we want to be, live the life we truly want to live, leave the legacy we desire.

I believe in the freedom of expression, unequivocally - though, as I have written before, I wish more people would understand that freedom of expression is not freedom from consequence.

A man is accountable to no person for his doings.

I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

I'm really only responsible for my own actions.

My words are my own, and my actions are my ministers.'

We are what we make.

Sometimes, with the way you've been brought up, you try to just put your heart on your sleeve and play anywhere.

You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.

You have chosen the pathway to your present destination. The responsibility for your situation is yours.

I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.

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

I think it has as much to do with honoring my own voice as it does with feeling a responsibility to my readers or my daughters.

The thoughts I express, whether clearly or ambiguously, are my own and they are my individual responsibility.

Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.

I know that I cannot take responsibility for other people. We are all under the law of our own consciousness.

I do hope that young men and women will start to think for themselves and start to take responsibility for their own thoughts.

All I really wanted was to try and live the life that was spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so very difficult?

Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgement and nothing can help you escape it - that no substitute can do your thinking, as no pinch-hitter can live your life.

You just have to be strong and don't be stupid; freedom of choice is a big responsibility.

If we empower ourselves with responsibility over our actions, responsibility over our destinies and responsibility for directing and maintaining and creating our own ethical and moral frameworks, which is the most important thing really isn’t it because perhaps the greatest insult to humanism is this idea that mankind needs a god in order to have a moral framework.

For some men, nothing is Written unless they Write it.

The time has come to accept in our hearts and minds that with freedom comes responsibility.