Quotes About Accountability

There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities.

The facts, gentlemen, and nothing but the facts, for careful eyes are narrowly watching.

Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.

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Politics doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt politics.

In any event, we must remember that it's not the blinded wrongdoers who are primarily responsible for the triumph of evil in the world, but the spiritually sighted servants of the good.

Sorry has got to be the most over-used cliched get-out clause in the history of mankind. Tossed out flippantly without any real meaning or substance.

People blame science. Shit, man, people shouldn't blame science. People should blame people.

If you can smile when things go wrong, you have someone in mind to blame.

Obviously, there's the temptation to sit back and smile, .. But there's so much at stake, we have to do our due diligence.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

You cannot change any society unless you take responsibility for it, unless you see yourself as belonging to it and responsible for changing it.

In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty - all are responsible.

If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

No job is more vital to our society than that of the manager. It is the manager who determines whether our social institutions serve us well or whether they squander our talents and resources.

Some of the most vocal critics of the way things are being done are people who have done nothing themselves, and whose only contributions to society are their complaints and moral exhibitionism.

A society without the means to detect lies and theft soon squanders its liberty and freedom.

A society which permits anything will eventually lose everything.

A society that is not willing to demand a life of somebody who has taken somebody else's life is simply immoral.

The truly free person in society is a disciplined person.

We should not expect people to be good, but should make it impossible for them to be bad.

I was standing there, waiting for someone to do something, till I realized the person I was waiting for was myself.

t was not illiterate savages, but graduates of the finest educational systems of the West who designed the gas chambers used to burn millions of innocent men, women and children in Germany.