Quotes About Accountability

Vices are their own punishment

Every man carries two bags about him, one in front and one behind, and both are full of faults. The bag in front contains his neighbors' faults, the one behind his own. Hence it is that men do not see their own faults, but never fail to see those of others.

The loiterer often blames delay on his more active friend.

When you hit back make sure you have got the right man.

Those who pretend that they can mend others should first mend themselves, and then they will be more readily believed.

Evil cannot be punished, but it is self-destructive.

Society ends up with the adults it deserves. It's just a little more obvious nowadays.

If we don't start caring about whether people tell the truth or not, it's going to be literally impossible to restore anything approaching reasonable political discourse.

Roosevelt said, in April 1906, "Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics, is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.

The more people you have to ask for permission, the more dangerous a project gets.

Am putea eventual defini maturitatea - È›elul nostru perpetuu evaziv - ca abilitatea de a da fiec?ruia ceea ce merit? atunci când o merit?, de a separa emoÈ›iile care trebuie imediat exprimate fa?? de cei care le iniÈ›iaz?, în loc de a fi îndreptate mai târziu c?tre nevinovaÈ›i.

Never be prime minister at the start of a war, Nessie [..] The man that lead you into it isn't the one to lead you out of it.

Tú eres responsable de tu acción, pero la otra persona lo es de su interpretación de la misma y de su subsiguiente experiencia.

our first responsibility is to remove the weeds from our own garden. We must take the high road ourselves before exhorting others to do so.

he had never killed anyone before. He still felt the same. The pistol had done the killing, not him. The man had set if off himself, as a consequence of his own idiotic actions.

A moment comes, and if you wish to look at yourself as human, you must take some kind of action. Otherwise, you can read the newspapers and congratulate yourself on your good fortune.

In a world of fixed future, there can be no right or wrong. Right and wrong demand freedom of choice, but if each action is already chosen, there can be no freedom of choice. In a world of fixed future, no person is responsible. The rooms are already arranged.

Those primarily responsible for the current desperate situation of the Palestinian people have been their own leaders, from Haj Hussaini (the late Grand Mufti of Jerusalem) to Yassir Arafat, to the leaders of Hamas and the other terrorist groups. These leaders have placed a higher priority on the destruction of Israel than on the construction of Palestine.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who watches the watchmen?

You see, Doctor, God didn't kill that little girl. Fate didn't butcher her and destiny didn't feed her to those dogs. If God saw what any of us did that night he didn't seem to mind. From then on I knew... God doesn't make the world this way. We do.

The Rudderless World is not shaped by vague metaphysical Forces. It is not God who kills the Children. Not Fate that butchers them or Destiny that feeds them to the Dogs. ... It´s us. Only us.

Who watches the watchmen?

The roots of the word 'anarchy' are 'an archos,' 'no leaders,' which is not really about the kind of chaos that most people imagine when the word 'anarchy' is mentioned. I think that anarchy is, to the contrary, about taking personal responsibility for yourself.

Aprovechados, impostores, mentirosos, lunáticos... esos han sido los que han tomado las decisiones. Así de sencillo. Pero, ¿quién los eligió? ¡Tú! ¡Tú les buscaste! ¡Tú les nombraste! ¡Tú les diste el poder de decidir por ti! Admito que cualquiera puede equivocarse una vez, pero cometer los mismos errores fatales siglo tras siglo me parece un tanto deliberado.