Quotes About Accountability

He squirmed as though he was the one who'd killed Edwal and named Thorn a murderer. All he'd done was watch. Watch and do nothing.

Conscience is an excuse not to do what needs doing.

That's kings for you. The shit ideas are always someone else's.

Most of us tend to be truthful until we are punished for it.

We are thoroughly responsible for who we are and the circumstances in which we find ourselves. We are the ones who do the choosing.

Commitment is simply doing what you said you'd do well after the mood you were in when you said it has passed.

There is no such thing as a good police shooting, it's either justified or not. - MSNBC 9/21/16

You'll never reach the top (you won't even get out of the basement) if all you ever do is take on the role of victim. Forget about blaming other people for your failures and shortcomings.

The death toll from health care screwups adds up to at least 500,000 Americans annually. That is the equivalent of more than three jumbo jets crashing every day of the year (or over 1,000 jets annually). Because these individuals are dying at home, in hospitals, or in nursing homes, no one is counting the bodies. There is no outrage, no plan to change a system that allows too many to die unnecessarily. The medical profession seems largely immune to the consequences of its errors.

Politicians cover their mistakes with money; cooks cover their mistakes with mayonnaise; doctors cover theirs with dirt.

The people in charge can always justify doing terrible things in the name of the greater good. A slaughter here, a little torture there. It becomes moral to do things that would be immoral if an ordinary individual did 'em.

Aja como se todo mundo dependesse de você! Porque depende mesmo!

If you can quit, quit. If you can't quit, stop complaining - this is what you chose.

If you cheat on your road work in the dark of the morning, you will be found out in the big fight under the bright lights.

But killing a man ought to mean something, even if you have to do it.

Problem with this world is we've lost the idea of shame and guilt. We need a little of that. No one thinks they ever do bad anymore. They just do different.

On his desk in the Oval Office was a sign that read, "The Buck Stops Here," and as Truman would later observe, "The President—whoever he is—has to decide. He can't pass the buck to anybody. No one else can do the deciding for him. That's his job.

Men are swine.""Not all of us

When a man has been consistently battering his wife, he shouldn't expect a bouquet of roses from her the morning after he promises to stop.

But the blame for the resultant situation, in as much as it needs to be attributed, belongs with politicians not with businessmen. It is the politicians' job to defend society's interests.

everything you seek and everything you experience—everything—is inside you. If you want to change anything, you do it inside, not outside. The whole idea is total responsibility. There's no one to blame. It's all you.

It's not your fault but it is your responsibility. —Dr. Joe Vitale

Youk'n hide de fier, but w'at you gwine do wid de smoke?

One of the most infuriating traits of some philanthropoids is their practice of dragging out grantmaking decisions beyond any reasonable time frame, while failing to offer any clear signals about the real likelihood of approval. When the proposal has been solicited by the foundation in the first place—which is usually the case nowadays—this behavior is even more reprehensible.