Charles Kingsley Quotes

May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.

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.

Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.

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

The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me.

True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

We all have to take responsibility for what we say and do.

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.

Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.

Yes, we have the freedom to do what we please, but it only works because we don't do everything we might please - we should exercise some degree of personal, and corporate, responsibility.

We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.

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

I think people have to take responsibility for their own actions.

I'm really only responsible for my own actions.

Each is responsible for his own actions.

Freedom is not the liberty do anything whatsoever. It is the freedom to do good

Our rulers do wrong from choice and right from necessity.

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

Man is certainly free, but he is responsible for this freedom before God as before men. This responsibility is inevitably moral. In order of this morality, to be free is to protect the freedom of others and their dignities.

The thing for us to do is just to do our duty, and not worry about whether anybody sees us do it or not.

Christian freedom does not mean being free to do as we like; it means being free to do as we ought.

I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.

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