Quotes About Accountability

I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats.

I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?

The antonym of "forgetting" is not "remembering", but justice .

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

A tardy vengeance shares the tyrant's guilt.

Fundamentally, if the league is going to have a no-tolerance policy for domestic abuse, if we're going to be a global organization that's going to have this as a perspective, we've got to back it up. We can't be backed into it with a video with more coming out. We've got to take an affirmative stance about it.

Words you will never hear God say, "I did my part ... now it's all up to you."

In this situation however, I have to wonder...which of us is the sinner?

in 1987, Thatcher said, "There is no such thing as society. There is [a] living tapestry of men and women…and the quality of our lives will depend upon how much each of us is prepared to take responsibility for ourselves."1

People were unable to fathom the full consequences of their decisions.

journalists who inform society about and thus protect it from cheats and freeloaders. Most

while we cannot be certain that some new Ebola outbreak or an unknown flu strain won't sweep across the globe and kill millions, we will not regard it as an inevitable natural calamity. Rather, we will see it as an inexcusable human failure and demand the heads of those responsible

When a single professional makes almost all the decisions, mistakes can be catastrophic.

we need to take full responsibility for the crimes and failings of modernity, from genocides to ecological degradation.

Rather, when famine, plague or war break out of our control, we feel that somebody must have screwed up, we set up a commission of inquiry, and promise ourselves that next time we'll do better.

We are more powerful than ever before, but have very little idea what to do with all that power. Worse still, humans seem to be more irresponsible than ever. Self-made gods with only the laws of physics to keep us company, we are accountable to no one. We are consequently wreaking havoc on our fellow animals and on the surrounding ecosystem, seeking little more than our own comfort and amusement, yet never finding satisfaction.

Everything we personally own that's made, sold, shipped, stored, cleaned, and ultimately thrown away does some environmental harm every step of the way, harm that we're either directly responsible for or is done on our behalf.

Don't ever write a check with your mouth you can't cash with your ass. Oh, and one more thing... don't wake the mother.

You'll be sorry," he said unpleasantly. "I hope so," Alabama answered. "I like paying for the things I do-it makes me feel square with the world".

It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.

History can never be covered up.

People who excuse their faults and claim they didn't deserved to be punished - there are lots of them. But those who don't excuse their faults and admit they didn't deserve to be spared - they are few.

When you have kids, you're responsible for their mistakes. Their mistakes, their heartaches, their happiness... you take everything on yourself!

Every choice you make has an end result.