Quotes About Accountability

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.

Cafe Owners are more frustrated than the common laborer, Draeger writes. The common laborer answers only to the foreman; the cafe owner answers to every patron who stops in

Power without responsibility - the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.

Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.

It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability.

I am your servant. You have the right to dismiss me when you please. What you have no right to do is ask me to bear responsibility without the power of action.

Power has to be insecure to be responsive.

We are the greatest power in the world. If we behave like it.

Power should be reserved for weightlifting and boats, and leadership really involves responsibility.

Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret.

We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership.

The law cannot forgive, for the law has not been wronged, only broken; only persons can be wronged. The law can pardon, but it can only pardon what it has the power to punish.

Think What You Do When You Run in Debt: You Give to Another Power over Your Liberty

Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it.

Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.

Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.

In a democratic nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good.

Nothing discloses real character like the use of power.

Taking responsibility means not blaming yourself. Anything that takes away your power or your pleasure makes you a victim. Don't make yourself a victim of yourself!

Black power got to moving so fast that we miscalculated the fallout. I certainly have to take some of the responsibility of that; but there was no way we anticipated the response.

All political power is a trust.

Power can be very addictive, and it can be corrosive. And it's important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power, whether it be here or elsewhere.

I am a very judgmental person. Of myself and other people. I recognise it's a great fault, but I have no power over that.

That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power.