Quotes About Accountability

The secret of the universe is this: The universe doesn't care. That part of the job is yours.

most people who do a great deal of harm in the world are protected against the knowledge that they do so.

The problem is, the moment one starts framing things in terms of debt, people will inevitably start asking who really owes what to whom.

It's those who do not have the power to hire and fire who are left with the work of figuring out what actually did go wrong

Stewarship responsibility.

Reliability in this largely rational sense is the repeated experience of links between promises and action.

McDonald's likes to describe professionals that serve them (such as advertising agencies) as having "ketchup in their veins.

The flip side of credit is blame. A tendency to blame others, or circumstances, is generally a recipe for unhappiness in life.

He was very good, it turned out, at outlining the flaws in the government as long as someone else was in charge of the government.

Papal timidity becomes ever more blatantly despicable.

talking about what people ought to do, instead of giving some kind of lead in condemning what they are actually doing.

observed the pope. "Some remain secret, others are exploited. Whenever we are told of such cases, we intervene immediately. And severely.

Each of us has a certain ministry to perform, and we will each have to answer to God for what we have done with that gift. What have you done with the talents God has given you?

Fear not them which destroy the body, but are not able to kill the soul; but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell (Matt. 10:28 KJV). We should all truly love God, fear God, and be prepared to meet Him when our time comes to leave this earth and stand before Him to give an account. We never really know when our time will come to leave this life. Let's make sure we're ready!

Human authorities will exercise authority rightly only if they acknowledge the authority of God over them.

A key test for any society is whether or not it is self-correcting. And to be self-correcting, it must first be open and truthful about itself.

Heavy reliance on the tool of confession is lazy. It aborts justice. As a result, whoever murdered eight people that March day in Bwindi—whether the three defendants or others—was not held to account.

Education is important, but we're to the point where almost everyone knows they shouldn't drink and drive. The people who are still doing it are choosing to do it. The most effective way to deal with them is to arrest them.

I can help, but in the end it is up to you

You're going to want to, but you just can't blame the accident on the Bartles & Jaymes. That wouldn't be fair. Yes, Mooney's blood alcohol was flirting with .15 and his reaction time was down, but 250 pounds of aggressively stupid animal that springs out of nowhere and stands frozen on the center stripe of a dark highway, right in the middle of an unlit curve, I mean, that asshole has to be factored into the equation too.

In order to help you remember that, here's a little ditty you can recite to yourself before you ease out the clutch: "He was right, dead right, as he sped along. But he's just as dead as if he'd been wrong.

Ha, no, that it's always the wrong people who have the guilty conscience. Those who are really responsible for suffering in the world couldn't care less. It's the ones fighting for good who are consumed by remorse.

Those who spy on the people end up themselves being spied on by the people. There's a fundamental democratic logic to it.

Those who spy on the people end up themselves being spied on by the people.