Quotes About Accountability

The morality of free society can have no application to slave society. . . .Make a man a slave, and youmrob him of of moral responsibility. Freedom of choice is the essence of all accountability.

There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy; hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.

When de Gaulle and Bohlen met at the Elysee a few days after the coup the French leader spoke in harsh tones. You will be blamed for the deaths of Diem and Nhu, he told the American. You may do and say what you like; no one will believe you. It is you who will be held responsible.

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It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.

The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved.

Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?...Third question for the conscience.

He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is always the scapegoat.

When a human being resists his whole age and stops it at the gate to demand an accounting, this must have influence.

Men were considered free only so that they might be considered guilty - could be judged and punished: consequently, every act had to be considered as lying within the consciousness.

We deny God; in denying God, we deny accountability: only by doing that do we redeem the world. –

Our duties - are the rights of others over us.

What alone can our teaching be? – That no one gives a human being his qualities: not God, not society, not his parents or ancestors, not he himself (– the nonsensical idea here last rejected was propounded, as 'intelligible freedom', by Kant, and perhaps also by Plato before him). No one is accountable for existing at all, or for being constituted as he is, or for living in the circumstances and surroundings in which he lives.

The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.

Socialism increases in direct ratio and proportion with the surrender of personal responsibility to neighbor.

We lose our souls not only by the evil we do but also by the good we leave undone.

So when God pulls down the curtain on the drama of the world's redemption, He will not ask what part we played, but only how well we played the role assigned to us.

No individual is ever made better by having his guilt excused as the result of his external environment, of bad playgrounds, of Oedipus or Electra, of Grade B milk, bad politics, or want of social opportunity.

Whenever a child is given to parents, a crown is made for it in Heaven; and woe to those parents if that child is not reared with a sense of responsibility to acquire that crown!

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Who judges the judge who judges wrong? The sentence too weak, The sentence too strong. The penance too quick, The penance too long. Who judges the judge who judges wrong?

Individualism is cherished because it produces freedom, but the gift is conditional.

You can never guarantee the wins but you can guarantee that you give it 100%. That way you can always look back and feel comfortable, as a player or a coach.