Quotes About Accountability

Voi donne, viceversa, ben di rado siete tormentate dai rimorsi, giacché ben di rado la decisione origina da voi, le vostre sventure quasi sempre sono il crimine altrui.

Si domandano consigli soltanto per non seguirli, oppure, se si seguono, è per avere qualcuno da rimproverare per averli dati.

crimes, but because we know that crimes have

During my stay in the United States, I witnessed the spontaneous formation of committees in a country for the pursuit and prosecution of a man who had committed a great crime. In Europe, a criminal is an unhappy man who is struggling for his life against the agents of power, whilst the people are merely a spectator of the conflict: in America, he is looked upon as an enemy of the human race, and the whole of mankind is against him.

In other words, the government of the democracy is the only one under which the power which lays on taxes escapes the payment of them.

Ignorance is no excuse when once we know that ignorance is the only possible excuse.

If those who know why and how neglect to act, those who do not know will act, and the world will continue to flounder.

knew that from now on she would be held hostage by her responsibilities.

You rescue something and you're responsible for it. But maybe that's what love is.

Honesty was like a stone, dropped and irretrievable once it was spoken aloud

Perhaps it's always true that when you wreck your own life you blame everyone else for your misfortune.

Who made it your job to feel guilty for every bad thing that happens?

words that have been said cannot be unspoken

People who delegate their own responsibility to higher powers are willfully ignoring what the facts tell them. They don't care about the truth. They want to be left in peace. Goodness they attribute to God, evil to the devil or their children's innate wickedness.

Empathizing with a child's unhappy beginnings does not imply exoneration of the cruel acts he later commits. (This is as true for Alois Hitler as it is for Adolf.)

There would never be any room in her for anything else. No room for anything but the realization of what she had done.

I'm just a civil servant. We take the taxpayer's money and try not to do any work at all.

Placing blame was easier than adding up the mounting figures of what he'd lost.

Until you do right by me, I say, everything you even dream about will fail.

you must live in the world today as you wish everyone to live in the world to come. That can be your contribution. Otherwise, the world you want will never be formed. Why? Because you are waiting for others to do what you are not doing; and they are waiting for you, and so on. The planet goes from bad to worse.

It not my salvation she working for. And if she don't learn she got to face judgment for herself, she won't even have live.

We zijn schijnbaar verantwoordelijk voor alles wat we doen, hoe de reeks van gebeurtenissen ook is begonnen.

only one man could have been responsible for their deaths: Richard III.

There are only two options – make progress or make excuses.