Quotes About Accountability

few understand the ultimate peril to humankind—that false sense of freedom from responsibility for your own actions.

Kaybedince, iyi karar verme yeteneÄŸini de kaybetmiÅŸ olduk. Bugünlerde bir düÅŸman?n üstüne atlar gibi atl?yoruz kararlar?n üstüne...ya da bekleyip bekleyip ki bu da bir anlamda pes etmektir, baÅŸkalar?n?n kararlar?n?n bizi harekete geçirmesine izin veriyoruz. Bu ak?nt?n?n oluÅŸmas?n? saÄŸlayanlar?n bizler olduÄŸunu unuttuk mu?

For proper government, the tribe must have ways to choose men whose lives reflect the way a government should behave.

Good government never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodiet?

GideremeyeceÄŸimiz tek korkunun, kendi yapt???m?z hatalar?m?za dair duyduÄŸumuz korkular olduÄŸu söylenir.

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.

Leaders make mistakes, and those mistakes amplified by the number of those who follow without questioning, move inevitably toward great disasters.

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 and that's why I say 'think for yourself', ask questions.

For proper government, the tribe must have ways to choose men whose lives reflect the way a government should behave." From

looked for signs of slackness and especially for areas of responsibility that were running too smoothly. The Senior Watchdog had her own watchwords: "Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock.

The test of a man isn't what you think he'll do but what he actually does.

you know the story of Eve and the apple. Here's an interesting fact about that story: 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. My story tells you something about how our societies find a structural necessity for sub-groups." Moneo

There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors. —FROM "COLLECTED SAYINGS OF MUAD'DIB" BY THE PRINCESS IRULAN

A gun is a coward's weapon. A liar's weapon.We kill.. too often.. because we've made it easy.. too easy.. sparing ourselves the mess.. and the work..

Always blame conditions, not men

The ultimate issue for the evolutionist is not bones, fossils, and strata--it's GOD. Rejection of God and our accountability to Him is foundational to evolutionist thinking. The rejection of God comes first, and THEN comes the interpretation of the date.

the sin of the representative man.

It's not God who doesn't care, it's us

How are we to avoid those in office becoming deeply corrupt when everything is devoid of meaning?

I would never have named them in the first place as they are not the ones I hold responsible. It's the organization that's to blame, the high officials are the ones to blame.

Most men are not wicked. Men become bad and guilty because they speak and act without foreseeing the results of their words and their deeds. They are sleepwalkers, not evildoers.

We're only being punished because you reported us. Otherwise nothing would have happened to us, even if they found out what we did. Can that be called justice?

I don't even consider them guilty; it's the organization that's guilty, it's the high officials who are guilty.