Jason Bateman Quotes

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

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.

Men are not free when they are doing just what they like. The moment you can do just what you like, there is nothing you care about doing.

Well you don’t have to do it.

When one has genuinely chosen a course for oneself it cannot be possible to hold another responsible for it.

Freedom comes with responsibility.

Whoever wants to be free, therefore, let him not want or avoid anything that is up to others. Otherwise he will necessarily be a slave.

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

Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

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

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.

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.

Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.

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

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

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

Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want.

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

Freedom comes with a lot of responsibility. When you are by yourself, you have to develop a third eye.

Freedom and responsibility aren't interconnected things. They are the same thing.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

You never want me in a position to have to think. That's bad.

The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.