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Quotes About Accountability

Owning my faults is an easy thing for me. Learning from those realizations and breaking the cycle of making the same choices, that's the work.
~ Jessica Simpson
Now, should we treat women as independent agents, responsible for themselves? Of course. But being responsible has nothing to do with being raped. Women don't get raped because they were drinking or took drugs. Women do not get raped because they weren't careful enough. Women get raped because someone raped them.
~ Jessica Valenti
Freedom doesn't give you the license to do whatever the hell you want. It doesn't give you the license to, excuse my language, piss on other people's freedom.
~ Jessica Zafra
Prometeu nu se supune, dar nici nu se simte vinovat.
~ Erich Fromm
Active and responsible participation further requires that humanistic management replace bureaucratic management.
~ Erich Fromm
Wir werden nicht daran zugrunde gehen, dass einige Zeitgenossen besonders niederträchtig sind, und nicht daran, dass einigen von diesen und jenen mit einigen von denen identisch sind, die den Globus verwalten. Wir gehen an der seelischen Bequemlichkeit aller Beteiligten zugrunde. Wir wollen, dass es sich ändert, aber wir wollen nicht, dass wir uns ändern. Wozu sind die anderen da?, denkt jeder und wiegt sich im Schaukelstuhl.
~ Erich Kastner
There was always a screen behind which one could hide— a superior who in turn had his superior— orders, instructions, duties, commands— and finally the many-headed monster, morale, necessity, hard reality, responsibility, or whatever it was called— there was always a screen behind which to evade the simple law of humanity.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Cilv?ks var b?t atbild?gs vien?gi par to, ko pats nodar?jis. Un ar? tikai tad, ja tas nav dar?ts p?c pav?les.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Was werden unsere Väter tun, wenn wir einmal aufstehen und vor sie hintreten und Rechenschaft fordern?
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Where would the world be if one brought every man to book? There were thousands of Kantoreks, all of whom were convinced that they were acting for the best—in a way that cost them nothing. And that is why they let us down so badly.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Selles peitubki maailma häda, et me ise ei tunne, mida me korda saadame.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
People who write the false things and cause a disrupt ought to be strung up. They're the real villains
~ Erich Maria Remarque
bail?s un hist?rij? p?lis sekoja jebkuram sauklim, vienalga, no kuras puses tas n?ktu, ja vien p?lim pašam nav j?dom? un j?uz?emas atbild?ba, aizst?vot kaut ko, kas vi?u bied?, bet no k? vi?š nevar izvair?ties.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
There were thousands of Kantoreks, all of whom were convinced that they were acting for the best -- in a way that cost them nothing. And that is why they let us down so badly.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
He wrote, "It is so humiliating to me to shake hands with known and confessed murderers.
~ Erik Larson
If someone asks me why we did not use the regular courts I would reply: at the moment I was responsible for the German nation; consequently
~ Erik Larson
Of the 791 passengers designated by Cunard as missing, only 173 bodies, or about 22 percent, were eventually recovered, leaving 618 souls unaccounted for. The percentage for the crew was even more dismal, owing no doubt to the many deaths in the luggage room when the torpedo exploded.
~ Erik Larson
Yet gun dealers sell guns in America the way Rite Aid sells toothpaste, denying at every step of the way the true nature of the products they sell and absolving themselves of any and all responsibility for their role in the resulting mayhem.
~ Erik Larson
Evil prevails when good people do nothing.
~ Erin Gruwell
he'll have to cut out all of his gambling associations. He'll have to tell the court who got this money and what was done with it. He'll have to quit acting the part of a spoiled kid with an indulgent sister, and learn to stand on his own two feet, and it may make a man of him.
~ Erle Stanley Gardner
Today we are living the grotesque spectacle of the poisoning of the earth by the nineteenth-century hero system of unrestrained material production. This is perhaps the greatest and most pervasive evil to have emerged in all of history, and it may even eventually defeat all of mankind. Still there are no twisted people whom we can hold responsible for this.
~ Ernest Becker
We must know the facts and be guided by them...nature does not forgive fools nor does she spare them the penalties of their folly
~ Ernest Callenbach
Road to hell paved in unbought stuffed dogs. Not my fault.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.
~ Ernest Hemingway