Quotes About Accountability

The saber we've been entrusted to bear is not lifted with our hands; it is raised by our words.

hesitancy, fear, or anger all that has been entrusted to us. God

Irresponsible is only irresponsible if you fail. Succeed, however; and irresponsible quickly becomes merely unorthodox.

Let me be the first to say, there isn't a hell big enough for some of the assholes we have walking here on this earth.

It's human nature, Rainie. We're all looking for something to believe in, and someone to blame.

Companies, to date, have often used the excuse that they are only beholden to their shareholders, but we need shareholders to think of themselves as stakeholders in the well being of society as well.

We cannot have a just society that applies the principle of accountability to the powerless and the principle of forgiveness to the powerful. This is the America in which we currently reside.

When shame is missing from corporate life, society, quickly becomes uncivilized.

...every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.

We are the only institution in our society that can question a president on a regular basis and make him accountable. Otherwise, he could be king.

A man is culpable in the eyes of society when he escapes from the jurisdiction of its mediocrity.

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.

There is no suicide for which all society is not responsible.

Mass society has displaced real community, where people function together and account for their own lives.

We will not let governments off the hook. We will look to civil society to help us, to pin governments, to what they have committed to here. And we will report on it.

The responsibilities of someone in a more free and open society are, again obviously, greater than those who may pay some cost for honesty and integrity.

Perhaps nothing in our society is more needed for those in positions of authority than accountability.

A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.

Blaming society makes it awfully easy for a person of weak character to shrug off his own responsibility for his actions.

Who will guard the guards ? If we're the guards of society, then who will watch us and make sure that we're not dangerous?

Blame and victim thinking are so ingrained into the fabric of our society it's hard to find a role model anywhere who simply practices personal accountability in all things.

Politicians are probably the most underrated people in our society.

They can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass of the society.

If the woman picks the wrong man, that's not society's problem. That's her problem.