Ellen Key Quotes

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

People don't like the idea of consequences. They want to be able to live their life freely and do what they want to do without any consequences. And we know that's just not the way life is.

It is up to us to make the right choice and the right decisions.

I know what you're going to say! 'They are men, and men should be free.' A free man is dangerous to himself and everyone else. Freedom should be left to those who can put it to good use.

Freedom isn't to do what you want at somebody else's expense.

Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.

Freedom is good when the person can use it appropriately. Otherwise it is a disaster.

The more freedom you give people to do good, the more freedom they have to do bad as well.

People have been fed this diet of pabulum, rights, and impulsive freedom. There's just an absolute starvation for the other side of the story.

If you're going to break the rules, you have to live with the consequences.

I've gotten away with a lot in my life. The older you get the more you realize you're not getting away with it, it's taking its toll somewhere. So you try not to put yourself in those situations. Part of the mysterious process called growing up. Some people do that better than others.

The disciplined are free.

I don't believe in blaming inanimate objects for anything.

Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.

A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.

We are accountable for our actions as we exercise our moral agency. If we understand this principle and make righteous choices, our lives will be blessed.

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.

When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.

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.

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

Ultimately, you choose to be happy or miserable. The reality is that although you are free to choose, you can't choose the consequences of your choices. They're preloaded. It's a package deal.

Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.

If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?

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