Quotes About Accountability

promised more. Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.

A rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth.

This is the covenant of water: that they're all linked inescapably by their acts of commission and omission, and no one stands alone. She

This is the covenant of water: that they're all linked inescapably by their acts of commission and omission, and no one stands alone.

Will you tell us the stories that make us uncomfortable, but not complicit?

An employee made a mistake that cost the company $10 million, he walked into the office of Tom Watson, the C.E.O., expecting to get fired. "Fire you?" Mr. Watson asked. "I just spent $10 million educating you.

It is always tempting to believe that a bad system is the fault of one bad man.

Forgetting one's participation in mass murder is not something passive; it is an active deed. In

All it took was the officer's own silence and weight.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Statements like these say to the child, "I don't like what you did, and I expect you to take care of it." We hope that later on in life, as an adult, when he does something he regrets, he'll think to himself, "What can I do to make amends—to set things right again?," rather than "What I just did proves I'm an unworthy person who deserves to be punished.

It's important for these youngsters to realize that if they're genuinely sorry their feelings of remorse should be translated into action. The "repeat offender" can be told any of the following: "Sorry means behaving differently." "Sorry means making changes." "I'm glad to hear you're sorry. That's the first step. The second step is to ask yourself what can be done about it.

Righteousness and evil are not character traits determined in advance or by heredity, but lie rather in the hand of each one of us.

Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them

An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.

Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.

Responsiblity is a unique concept. It can only reside and inhere in a single individual. You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but it is still with you. You may disclaim it, but you cannot divest yourself of it.

I am a victum of an error of judgement

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The parliamentary institution attracts people of the badger type, who do not like the open light. No upright man, who is ready to accept personal responsibility for his acts, will be attracted to such an institution.