Quotes About Accountability

In Heaven (if there is one), we are held accountable for every joy we failed to taste.

And put us both in charge.

You know that's not the entire quote," said Knight. "It's, 'Kill one man and you're a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you're a conqueror. Kill them all, and you're a god.

We hang the petty thieves. The master thieves we appoint to public office.

A crooked peace officer is just a damned abomination," McCarthy wrote. "That's all you can say about it. He's ten times worse than the criminal."48

The requirement that authority must equal responsibility is not only impossible to fulfill; it is logically unnecessary except within a system which makes authority the exclusive means of influence. The

A country that believes it has never done any wrong is a country that could do wrong at any time. But a country that believes it has only done wrong, or done such a terrible, unalleviated amount of wrong in the past, is likely to become a country that is inclined to doubt its ability to ever do any good in the future.

In some manner with which we still haven't even begun to wrestle, we have created a world in which forgiveness has become almost impossible, in which the sins of the father can certainly be visited upon the son.

Perhaps nothing was done to reverse the trend because no one in power believed anything could be done. If this was a political truth then it remained wholly unmentionable. Nobody could get elected on such a platform, and so a continent-wide tradition arose of politicians saying things and making promises that they knew to be unachievable.

the collective ambition of public figures must become to ensure that they write, speak and think out loud in such a fashion that no dishonest critic could dishonestly misrepresent them.

If Australia is forever opening up and apologising for its own past while China remains silent, the impression may eventually be instilled, in children in Australia as much as anywhere else, that Australia is the country with more to apologise for.

America, as in Australia, such a constant drumbeat of guilt changes a people's natural feelings about their own past. It transforms feelings of patriotism into shame or at the very least into deeply mixed emotions, and troubling effects result from this. A country that believes it has never done any wrong is a country that could do wrong at any time.

The urge to blame is based . . . on the fear of being blamed.

When you keep your sexual conversations, behaviors, pornography, or masturbation a secret, you are

Sins are like grapes; they come in bunches.

A father must beware the false dichotomy between individualism and "patriarchalism." The individualist says to each person in the family that responsibility begins and ends with him. Only one person can be responsible for one thing. The "patriarchalist" approach would agree and then say that the only person responsible in the family is the Boss Man. If he is responsible, then no one else can ever do anything freely. Both approaches are erroneous.

If you have told twenty-eight people this week that "he missed his nap today" as an excuse for his disobedience, then perhaps you ought to re-evaluate. We all know there are times when this is not an excuse but a reasonable explanation. But if you find yourself resorting to excuses all the time, then you are just trying to get people to overlook your lack of wisdom and discipline.

Only those who are in-charge are tackled and criticized by others so criticism is something desirable and should not be resented.

there is no obscuring of responsibility such as "I try to be honest." We are honest or we are not honest.

Never do anything that you aren't prepared to face the true consequences of.

People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.

The people and circumstances around me do not MAKE me what I am, they REVEAL who I am.

Personal responsibility is the essence of self. I, for one, would rather not give that up. Why would we ever want someone else to do our thinking for us?

Responsibility is doing ones work neatly, without the instruction and monitoring by anyone.