Germaine Greer Quotes

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

Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.

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

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

The way I look at it, I'd rather make my own mistakes than have people make them for me.

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.

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.

A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.

If you make up your own mind, you can only blame yourself.

I am responsible for no one but myself.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.

I think it's very important that you make your own decision about what you are. Therefore you're responsible for your actions, so you don't blame other people.

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

To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts.... Self-government means self-reliance.

You and only you are responsible for your life choices and decisions.

I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.

When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.

Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

One thing I want you to understand is if I make a decision, it's my decision.

My dad has no control over who works with me. Me, me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything.

We make our own future; we govern ourselves, and to govern is to choose.

What is nice about this sport is that I am responsible for most everything.