Quotes About Accountability

Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.

Why did you shoot him?" "You weren't around," I replied, my teeth gritted in pain. "If you'd been here I'd have shot you instead.

Because to ignore what had happened in the recent and distant pasts, to turn away and look elsewhere because it was easier to do so, was to be an accomplice to the crimes that were committed. To refuse to delve deeper would be to collude with the offenders.

there were a lot of people out there who had no right to be carrying even a sharpened pencil, never mind a loaded weapon.

As philosophy professor Dale Miller asks, "if the business owner is willing to accept less responsibility for her decisions, then why should she expect as much freedom in making them?

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit . . . a reputation, character.

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

Nobody does anything if he can get anybody else to do it

There have been people who have done things in the name of Christ they never should have done...not everything done in the name of Christ should, in point of fact, be attributed to Christianity. It's important to remember that it's not Jesus' teaching that are at fault here; it's the actions of those who, for whatever reason, greatly strayed from what he clearly taught...

As long as we blame, as long as we avoid or deny, we remove from the realm of possibility the power to do something about our lives. We become totally dependent upon the ups and downs we create around us.

How sad, that the group with the most access to the truth chose in several strategic instances to look the other way.

we may lead a horse to water we cannot make him drink; and that while we can shut a man up in a penitentiary we cannot make him penitent.

I do nothing upon myself, and yet am mine own executioner.

But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.

The universe may be tenderly indifferent to our fate, but we shouldn't be. We are our brothers' keepers. There is right, and there is wrong. There are consequences to our actions or inactions. Disregard can be an act of violence.

There comes a point where the disappointments in your life accrue faster than you can find external forces to blame them on.

We create the world in which we live; if that world becomes unfit for human life, it is because we tire of our responsibility.

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are responsible all the same. One's born and at once one is guilty.

Hillary Clinton's life has been filled with corruption but nobody cares.

Screw us once, shame on them; screw us twice, shame on us.

Without duty, life is soft and boneless.