Quotes About Accountability

L'hai uccisa tu, Peter, e più di così non puoi vendicarti. Una volta che li hai ammazzati non puoi fare altro». La vendetta è sempre la parte più facile. La parte più difficile arriva in seguito, cioè convivere con la consapevolezza di ciò che si è fatto, e di ciò che si è dovuto sopportare, o che è stato inflitto ai propri cari.

It has been my experience that if you have the responsibility of leadership, you might as well have the jewelry to go with it.

What if away from the bad guy, she's not a bad guy? Oh, hell, I don't know. The only thing I know for certain is that it isn't my job to worry about how the poor bastard turned into a killer. It's my job to make sure they never kill anyone else again. That's what I do. I am the executioner. Murder someone in my town, and I'm the one that you get to see. Once.

Merry didn't make you a whining bitch, Talan; you were always that.

I would never punish the daughter for the mother's crimes.

I'm not sure intentions make much difference in the end. I hear the road to hell is paved with them. She meant it frivolously, but Olivia answered seriously, Yes, but one does have to live with one's self. Not necessarily...There are any number of ways to avoid living with one's self. Gin, for example. Yes, but you're still there at the base of it aren't you. Only with a terrible head in the morning.

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without deeds do not to heaven go.

You listened so you would learn; you thought so that your answer would not return to humiliate or harm you, because, in Paulie's world, once something was said it could not be called back or explained away.

The expert is someone who carries malpractice insurance.

Apologies mean nothing if you don't mean it.

Did you read last nights assignments? Say yes' and get hammered again. Say no' and the same thing would happen.

Sometimes being an adult means doing the right thing, even if it's not what you want.

I realized that you don't try on a pair of pants, fart in them, and then put them back on the shelf, and the same rough politeness applied here, too. Plain and simple, I bled on it, I bought it.

People act poorly because other people have let them act poorly, and they have been able to get away with it for a lifetime. There is no sense of consequence. So I called a lawyer who looked up the

Cain said he wasn't Abel's keeper. Are those our only choices, keeper or killer?

It is a sad reflection . . . that a sense of responsibility which comes with power is the rarest of things.

Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.

What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.

The real moments that changed the world are when church members miss the meaning of a whole sermon, and take no accountability for the testimonies they damage, by being self-righteous.

Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down ? That's not my department.

When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any fact-checking, it becomes impossible for a democracy to think intelligently about big issues.

With something like Chernobyl, the public reaction was Oh, my God, science has really done wrong.

The ruling power is always faced with the question, 'In such and such circumstances, what would you do?', whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.

Excusing bad programming is a shooting offence, no matter what the circumstances.