Quotes About Accountability

The Almighty gave us our lives, and I suppose He meant us to defend them, at least I have always acted on that, and I hope it will not be brought up against me when my clock strikes.

I hope the example of Saddam Hussein will give a lesson to leaders of other countries where human rights are not respected.

Since I cannot govern my own tongue, though within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongue of others?

The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.

If there is any bad feeling I hope it's against me and not my players - I may put my tin helmet on without them seeing!

We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.

I hope I'm an integrous person who cleans up their messes when I've been a jerk.

If we turn our heads and look away and hope that it will all disappear then they will - all of them, an entire generation of people. And we will have only history left to judge us.

I would hope that we can load our moral computers with three elements of integrity: 1. Dealing justly with oneself. 2. Dealing justly with others. 3. Recognizing the law of the harvest.

We in this House are role models. People all over the world watch us and study us. When we fall short, they lose hope. When we fail, they despair.

I think there's been a decline in the public's access to what's being done with their tax dollars, what's being done in their name. I hope that that will be repaired.

We all hope that the police and prosecutors are objective. That's their job, but sometimes it's not true.

Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations.

Woe to humanity, should only a single animal have a seat in the Last Judgement.

The collapse of good conscience and the absence of accountability and public scrutiny have led to crimes against humanity and violations of international law.

All of humanity is in peril of extinction if each one of us does not dare, now and henceforth, always to tell only the truth, and all the truth, and to do so promptly - right now.

Humanity is waiting for us. Not to hear about our actions, but to see our actions.

One expects decent people to stand up for the good of all. Decent people shut their doors and hide behind them as decent people do. Massacres could never happen if it weren't for decent people.

There is no point in being a responsible member of society, nor is there any point in being an irresponsible member of society. Both are very defined descriptions of selfhood

The ultimate priority of humanity should not be to savour the power given to us, but rather to account for the according responsibility.

We must dilute and disperse all forms of concentrated power that refuse to be accountable to majority wishes.

The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.

The Devil made me do it the first time - the second time I done it on my own

People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any Act of Parliament.