Allan Massie Quotes

Since we own our bodies, we also inevitably own the effects of our actions, be they good or bad. If we own the effects of our actions, then clearly we own that which we produce, whether what we produce is a bow, or a book - or a murder.

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts.

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.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

'The Author' is a play about responsibility, how active we are as spectators and how responsible we are for what we choose to look at.

It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.

Life is to blame for everything.

We are all responsible for our actions and our failures to act.

Everybody just has to be held accountable for their own actions.

You have agency, and you are free to choose. But there is actually no free agency. Agency has its price. You have to pay the consequences of your choices.

Choices may be unbelievably hard but they're never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts.

Any problems that may occur have ultimately been caused by you, because you are responsible for where you are and what you are doing there.

Don't tell me what they did to you as though you had no choice. Tell me, isn't that your picture? Isn't that your voice.

shame should be reserved for the things we choose to do, not the circumstances that life puts on us

We tend to think that people are more to blame for their acts than for their omissions.

If people have done something wrong then they should be held accountable.

Sometimes, when I hear people without experience of addiction blame addicts for their behaviour, I feel like saying to them: 'You simply don't understand - how can a child be held responsible for doing such a dreadful thing to himself?' But then again, at other times I have to acknowledge: it was done wilfully.

It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.

Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.

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

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.

Every human must take responsibility for his actions.

To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.