Quotes About Accountability

People are forgiving, Mr. Coe, but they want accountability.

consequences are because of the actions a person chose to take

consequences are because of the actions a person chose to take, whatever that person's reason or justification. The consequences lie with them. Not me.

Sorry won't get my license back." Jake walked faster. "Just shut up. Don't talk to me. It's bad enough I have to spend

Followers must have leaders, and this means that before much can be done with the church membership something will have to be done with the church officials.

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

It is the curse of the powerful to be blind to their own faults.

In Jesus' death and resurrection, God has declared that he isn't the least interested in examining anybody's books ever again, not even his own: he's nailed them all to the cross. Accountability, however much it may be a buzzword now, is not one of his eschatological categories.

It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out.

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.

We aren't our mistakes. It's what we do about the mistake that shows who we are.

You're like everyone else, Strike; you want your civil liberties when you've told the missus you're at the office and you're at a lap-dancing club, but you want twenty-four-hour surveillance on your house when someone's trying to force your bathroom window open. Can't have it both ways.

We aren't our mistakes. It's what we do -about- the mistake that shows who we are. [Dr. Margot Bamborough to Gloria Conti]

men's crimes are always ours in the final analysis, aren't they, Mr Strike? Ultimate responsibility always lies with the woman, who should have stopped it, who should have acted, who must have known. Your failings are really our failings, aren't they? Because the proper role of the woman is carer,

Those who live by the mob must be prepared to die by the mob.

I'm living for giving the devil his due51

Nobody enjoys accepting that they have reaped what they have sown.

The guilt that had tumbled from Strike seemed to have fallen heavily into her own lap.

A nadie le gusta aceptar que uno recoge lo que ha sembrado.

You wreck your own life and then, very gently, you wreck the lives of those around you.

The reason so many promises are not kept is the same reason they are made in the first place.

The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes by little people. It must also reach men who possess themselves of great power and make deliberate and concerted use of it to set in motion evils which leave no home in the world untouched.

We know how the people of Argentina ruined their country. We know how the people of Venezuela ruined their country. Few Americans know much about the history of Argentina or Venezuela. But if they wish to know how the people of the USA are ruining their own country, all they have to do is look around themselves, including, in most cases, looking in the mirror.