Quotes About Accountability

Anyone untaught can do a wrong thing. But after he's been taught, there's no excuse to repeat it.

Half the evil in this world occurs while decent people stand by and do nothing wrong. It's not enough to refrain from evil, Trell. People have to attempt to do right, even if they believe they cannot succeed.

Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too

Fault and guilt are as useless as apology once the deed is done. Once the action has been taken, all must endure what follows.

I haven't forgiven anything. And I don't believe in the "us" you think I might take vengeance on. You didn't do this to me. But even if you had, killing you would not undo it.

Half the evil in this world occurs while decent people stand by and do nothing wrong. It's not enough to refrain from evil, Trell. People have to attempt to do right, even if they believe they cannot succeed." "Even when it's stupid to try?" he asked with savage sarcasm. "Especially then," she replied sweetly.

once you put a man in charge of something, you didn't ride him while he did the task.

It is quite one thing to admit a fault to yourself. It is another thing entirely to have a friend not only agree with you, but point out the full depth of the fault.

You cannot claim that authority one moment, and then shoulder aside from it the next. Crowns cannot be doffed so lightly.

Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that.

I could not make it right, but I could make someone pay for how wrong it had been.

Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.

If a man is capable of massacre or overseeing massacre, which is the same

When evidence reached Joffre's ears that the men were complaining, that untenable positions were being given up or that attacks were not being pressed home with their former élan, his answer was not to question Nivelle or his own methods, but to call for courts martial and firing squads.

Pero cuando usted trata de solucionarle sus problemas, él queda liberado de su propia responsabilidad por su propia vida. Entonces usted queda a cargo del bienestar de él, y cuando sus esfuerzos fallan, él la culpará a usted.

Ceremony focuses attention so that attention becomes intention. If you stand together and profess a thing before your community, it holds you accountable.

Ceremony focuses attention so that attention becomes intention. If you stand together and profess a thing before your community, it holds you accountable. Ceremonies transcend the boundaries of the individual and resonate beyond the human realm. These acts of reverence are powerfully pragmatic. These are ceremonies that magnify life.

If people only knew . . . then they would, what? Stop? I honor their faith in people, but so far the if-then formula isn't working. People do know the consequences of our collective damage, they do know the wages of an extractive economy, but they don't stop.

But things don't just fall apart. People break them.

When you screw up you own it, you make amends, you learn your lesson.

A very important part of creating a new life was independence. She did not want to be accountable to anyone but herself.

Basically, even good people do really bad things if they think no one cares. The banality of evil.

He'd moved out once before and it hadn't worked out; he was still paying off bills from that fiasco, but he didn't seem to realize that it wasn't her goal in life to support him indefinitely.

But the people who did this? Hell wasn't bad enough for them.