Patricia Briggs Quotes

Never accept the blame for what evil people do. We are all responsible for our own actions.

There are some things we should feel guilty about, but the guilt feelings should attach to the deed, not to the doer.

Our virtues are voluntary (and in fact we are in a sense ourselves partly the cause of our moral dispositions, and it is our having a certain character that makes us set up an end of a certain kind), it follows that our vices are voluntary also; they are voluntary in the same manner as our virtues.

I cannot shift the blame for Chechnya, for the sorrow of numerous mothers and fathers. I made the decision, therefore I am responsible.

Actions have consequences... first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions.

Genius does not excuse evil.

What influences our behavior, and what our level of responsibility is, are very complex issues. And anytime we try to make this simplistic, we don't serve people well.

Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest.

All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.

While faith need not be monolithic - it can motivate both voting behavior and character development - focus matters. A Christianity constantly looking for political answers to moral and spiritual problems gives believers an excuse to blame other people when they should be looking in the mirror.

Morality pertains only to the sphere of man's free will - only to those actions which are open to his choice.

If I was going to act irresponsibly, the least I could do was be responsible for it.

In truth, there is no such thing as a "sinner" for no-one can be sinned against-least of all me.

We suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.

Men do monstrous things but if you call a man a monster you have absolved yourself of blame. You don't have to think that you might ever do these things. I don't think that's true

The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.

Honesty is a principle, and we have our moral agency to determine how we will apply this principle. We have the agency to make choices, but ultimately we will be accountable for each choice we make. We may deceive others, but there is One we will never deceive. From the Book of Mormon we learn, "The keeper of the gate is the Holy One of Israel; and he employeth no servant there; and there is none other way save it be by the gate; for he cannot be deceived, for the Lord God is his name." [2 Nephi 9:41]

When the need arises - and it does - you must be able to shoot your own dog. Don't farm it out — that doesn't make it nicer, it makes it worse.

A man should not play the coward to his deeds. He should not repudiate them once he has performed them. Pangs of conscience are indecent.

Man is responsible not only for every deed, but also for every idle word and thought.

Self-respecting men and women think about the consequences of their actions-and are willing to take responsibility for them.

But they who are unconcerned about the consequences of their actions are not therefore unconcerned about their actions.

If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions then you are forever chained to a position of defense.

People of poor character tend to blame their choices on circumstances. Ethical people make good choices regardless of circumstances. If they make enough good choices, they begin to create better conditions for themselves.