Quotes About Accountability

Everyone understands that in a modern economy - transparency, accountability, a working justice system are part of having a functioning, modern society.

When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future.

Freud tells us to blame our parents for all the shortcomings of our life, Marx tells us to blame the upper class of our society. But the only one to blame is oneself.

It's good to know that if I behave strangely enough, society will take full responsibility for me.

Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins.

Evil cannot be "treated" -- nor should it be. Evil has to [be] confronted and destroyed and it matters not why the evil is in play. Society has no obligation to try to rehabilitate evil.

If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society.

Serving democracy and nourishing the common good is, for the media, something that requires not only attacking corrupt secrecies in a society, but also defending non-corrupt communication.

Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.

In the free society envisioned by the founders, schools are held accountable to parents, not federal bureaucrats.

It is an error to suppose that a man belongs to himself. No man does. He belongs to his wife, or his children, or his relations, or to his creditors, or to society in some form or other.

The presidential news conference is indispensable because it is the only forum in our society where you can be questioned on a regular basis and held accountable.

You can't run a society or cope with its problems if people are not held accountable for what they do.

I think these large bureaucratic institutions are created in some way explicitly to inoculate anyone from actual responsibility, to create a much more diffuse and blameless kind of society.

We are in a democratic society. It's our job to question.

We live in a society that blames everybody else for what's wrong.

The sins of women and children, domestic servants and the weak, the poor and the ignorant, are the sins of the husbands and fathers, the masters, the strong and the rich and the educated.

You cannot run a scociety or cope with it's problems if people are not held accountable for what they do.

Your own life is the way it is because of you, and the choices you have made - or failed to make.

My moral and spiritual formation does not allow me to be a dictator... If I were a dictator, You can be sure that many things have happened.

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

When you abandon making choices, you enter the vast world of excuses.

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

All who are entrusted with spiritual and temporal talents must lay them out for the Lord and Master's advantage.