Quotes About Accountability

They only throw clean ones

The Nazi] death camps," notes a writer in The New York Times, "were conceived, built and often administered by Ph.D.'s."10 What had those Ph.D.'s been taught to think in their schools and universities—and where did such ideas come from?

Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it.

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it-- it was the black kitten's fault entirely.

It's too late to correct it," said the Red Queen: "when you've once said a thing, that fixes it, and you must take the consequences.

Demasiado tarde para correcciones! —exclamó la Reina Roja—: Una vez que has dicho algo, ¡Ya está!, debes asumir las consecuencias.

It's easy to fall away from the church, no matter the closeness to it in times past. I have done it. So have you. Grown people can do as they please. The 10:30 Sunday morning movie is even an excuse I use. So are Saturday nights that should have ended a lot earlier.

He deserves to have his head on a spike for all to see. Waring: If you are insufferable, do not walk here. We shall eat you down to the marrow.

Choices. That's what made a man. Wasn't it?

Every leader has blood on her hands.

If you did the wrong things for the right reasons, did that make the wrong things right? Or did that just mean you had turned your back on finding a more right way? And once you justified violence, did that make it easier the next time and the next, until you'd become the villain of your own story?

Now listen: if the fires badly, don't you dare come back and haunt me.

See, that's your generation all over—you muck up everything and then expect us to fix your messes

the psychopath will speak of himself in grandiose terms while blaming others and taking absolutely no responsibility for his actions.

It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.

Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

I have a rule: Walk out, crawl back. If a man does the first, then he has to do the second to get back on good terms with me.

I have brain damage, remember? I'm not responsible for my actions--or for the actions of my hand, which acted of its own volition and without my knowledge.' Cam to Bailey

He was a man. He should have acted more like one - thought about how all that self-indulgence might affect his daughter, if not his wife.

Once you permit individuals to maneuver in secret, unasked, and for their own purposes, there is chaos.

Be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. (James 1:22) In

no excuses. I accept full responsibility

You might be a hero. I say might because the choice is ultimately yours