Quotes About Accountability

The people must learn how well I govern them. How would they know if we didn't tell them?

Forgive you?" Leto's voice was full of sweet reason. "Of course I forgive you. That is your God's function. Your crime is forgiven. However, your stupidity requires a response.

Governments always commit their entire populations when the demands grow heavy enough. By their passive acceptance, these populations become accessories to whatever is done in their name.

Muad'Dib: "If a child, an untrained person, an ignorant person, or an insane person incites trouble, it is the fault of authority for not predicting and preventing that trouble." O.C.

When your actions describe a system of evil consequences, you should be judged by those consequences and not by your explanations.

And good administrators?" "Oh, they depend on verbal orders. They never lie about what they've done if their verbal orders cause problems, and they surround themselves with people able to act wisely on the basis of verbal orders. Often, the most important piece of information is that something has gone wrong. Bad administrators hide their mistakes until it's too late to make corrections.

A bad administrator is more concerned with reports than with decisions. He wants the hard record which he can display as an excuse for his errors.

Peace punishes mistakes without rewarding brilliance.

We should grant power over our affairs only to those reluctant to hold it, and only under conditions that increase that reluctance.

The problem with leadership is that leaders are human beings. And when they make mistakes, their mistakes are amplified by the numbers who follow without question.

Uno no debe arriesgarlo todo por liquidar prematuramente una cuenta

A bad administrator is more concerned with reports than with decisions. He wants the hard record which he can display as an excuse for his errors." "And good administrators?

Who shall guard the guardians? Who shall see that the guardians commit no offenses?

Often, the most important piece of information is that something has gone wrong. Bad administrators hide their mistakes until it's too late to make corrections.

You see, we often get noncreative leaders, people most interested in preserving their own positions. They flock around centers of power. Such centers attract people who can be corrupted. That is a more descriptive observation than to say simply that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Knowledge of mistakes taught him long-term corrections. He had to be constantly aware of consequences. If consequences were lost or concealed, lessons were lost.

Good administrators make immediate choices." "Acceptable choices?" "They usually can be made to work. A bad administrator, on the other hand, hesitates, diddles around, asks for committees, for research and reports. Eventually, he acts in ways which create serious problems.

a man must permit his deeds and his words to agree. When your actions describe a system of evil consequences, you should be judged by those con sequences and not by your explanations.

Bons súditos devem sentir culpa. A culpa começa como uma sensação de fracasso. O bom autocrata fornece muitas oportunidades de fracasso para o seu povo.

Eve was not the first to pluck and sample the apple. Adam was first and he learned by this to put the blame on Eve.

Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred.

History holds its own court and delivers its own judgements,' he said. 'I doubt that I'll be concerned when my judgement's handed down.

Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate

I already have good administrators—uncorruptible, sagacious, philosophical and open about their errors, quick to see decisions.