Quotes About Accountability

A government of five hundred country attornies and obscure curates is not good for twenty-four millions of men, though it were chosen by eight and forty millions; nor is it the better for being guided by a dozen of persons of quality, who have betrayed their trust in order to obtain that power.

There is no qualification for government, but virtue and wisdom, whether actual or presumptive. . . . Every thing ought to be open; but not indifferently to every man.

No government could stand a moment, if it could be blown down with anything so loose and indefinite as an opinion of misconduct.

The artistic temperament is too often only an alibi for lack of responsibility....

Taking responsibility means you don't blame anyone else for your difficulties. It also means that you don't blame yourself.

He castigates his habitual targets, "the dull, the feeble, and the timid good," and proclaims himself a strong man, careless of class, color, or party politics. "If I find a public servant who is dishonest, I will chop his head off if he is the highest Republican in this municipality!

Man with the Muckrake

An autocrat's a ruler that does what th' people wants an' takes th' blame f'r it.

When we thus rule ourselves, we have the responsibilities of sovereigns, not of subjects. We must never exercise our rights either wickedly or thoughtlessly; we can continue to preserve them in but one possible way, by making the proper use of them.

About mistakes it's funny. You've got to make your own; and not only that, if you try to keep people from making theirs, they get mad.

Still others worry that news organizations may pull their punches when reporting about the activities of their corporate parents or partners. Will ABC News go easy on problems at Disney, for example, which owns ABC?

the desire is overwhelming. Why? Because there is availability without accountability.

Here is a community goal: to be able to identify one pattern of sin in our lives

If the potential presence/arrival of another person can reveal the ungodliness in our behavior, how much more the coming of Christ himself?

There's no point delegating a decision if you won't accept the outcome.

Three things destroy a man: considering his own deeds to be really great, forgetting the sins that have been committed, considering his own opinion to be the highest.

On the Day of Judgement, God will interrogate people according to the wisdom he has granted them.

Don't any of you go taking any notice of the Government's promises. They will tell you anything to get you in but when you "do your bit" as they call it, you will soon be forgotten and so will the promises – don't you forget that. Now you must do as you think right.

Where everyone is responsible, no one is really responsible.

It requires a strong sense of responsibility to be a good functionary. In situations involving obedience to authority, people carry out orders partly to honor the obligations they have undertaken. One must, therefore, distinguish between two levels of responsibility—duty to one's superiors, and accountability for the effects of one's actions.

God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.