Quotes About Accountability

When you accept a leadership role, you take on extra responsibility for your actions toward others. If you shun someone, the effect will trickle down through those who value your opinion.

Still, I shouldered part of the blame, maybe because it gave me some sense of control in an uncontrollable situation.

One life per year. It seemed so moderate a price... until you looked back and realized you could fill a movie theater with your victims.

But the point, Maya, is that you don't give anyone a second chance. One strike and we're out." "So I'm inflexible and intolerant." "Maybe." "Well, then it's a good thing you're done with me, isn't it?" I headed for the house. Rafe let out a curse.

Friendship is a choice. more to the point, it is a series of ongoing choices, with consequences for each person.

This is amazing," Volodya said. "He's the President, yet he has to make excuses all the time for what he does!" "Something like that," Woody said. "We call it democracy.

After all, if you can't kill a man in front of God's face you probably shouldn't kill him at all.

If you don't take an interest, then what happens is your fault.

When you were trying to enforce law and order, it was difficult to explain that the rules did not actually apply to you personally.

Everything is ultimately the Prime Minister's fault', said Lloyd. 'That's what it means to be the leader

Ninguém está certo o tempo todo, mas, numa guerra, quando um líder se engana, pessoas morrem.

The old men were still running the country. The politicians who had caused millions of deaths were now celebrating, as if they had done something wonderful.

She was twenty-six years old, her life was ruined, and it was her own fault.

The degradation to which you subject others comes back, sooner or later, to haunt you, Maud thought.

An apology is designed to make the offender feel okay so that he can do it again. Don't be sorry." Kincaid tried to gather the shreds

In the old days you wouldn't discuss politics at all." "If you don't take an interest, then what happens is your fault.

It means telling the truth, keeping promises, and taking responsibility for your mistakes. It's the same in business as it is in everyday life. It's a matter of being what you claim to be, doing what you say you'll do.

I believe that what I do becomes part of me,' she said. 'When I'm brave and strong, and care for children and the sick and the poor, I become a better person. And when I'm cruel, or cowardly, or tell lies, or get drunk, I turn into someone less worthy, and I can't respect myself. That's the divine retribution I believe in.

German women have to make hard choices. We're paying for the easy choices German men made fifteen years ago. Men such as my father, who thought Hitler would be good for business, and Heinrich's father, who voted for the Enabling Act. The sins of the fathers are visited on the daughters.

Desfrânat?? întreb? ea, tare. Dar tu? C?lug?rii aceÈ™tia nu È™tiu c? e nevoie de doi oameni ca s? comiÈ›i preacurvie?

When the general staff closed their eyes to bad news, men died.

Si tu ne t'intéresses pas à ce qui se passe autour de toi, alors tu es responsable de ce qui se passe.

If I should die and my soul gets lost, it's nobody's fault but mine." Everybody was responsible.

We will have to repent, in this generation, not merely for the hateful words and actions of bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good," King said