Quotes About Accountability

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged.

Kill what you can't save what you can't eat throw out what you can't throw out bury What you can't bury give away what you can't give away you must carry with you, it is always heavier than you thought.

There's only so long you can feel sorry for a person before you come to feel that their affliction is an act of malice committed by them against you.

Creating some god for one's inspirations was always a good way to avoid accusations of pride should the scheme succeed, as well as the blame if did not.

But sins must not be overlooked simply because the sinner is skilled.

You want your decisions taken away from you so you won't be responsible for your own actions?

Sorry solves nothing

Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done.

What was about this that made us feel we deserved it?

Kick in the door, and what did I tell you? Caught in the act, sinfully Scrabbling. Quick, eat those words.

It's my fault. I am forgetting too much.

But in an account such as this, it is better to be scrupulous about your faults, as about all your other actions. Otherwise no one will understand why you made the decisions that you made.

He owes me, but that could prove a liability. Some people do not enjoy being indebted.

We're ankle deep in blood, and all because we ate the birds, we ate them a long time ago, when we still had the power to say no.

The written word is so much like evidence — like something that can be used against you later.

But whose fault was it? Aunt Helena says, holding up one plump finger. Her fault, her fault, her fault, we chant in unison. Who led them on? Aunt Helena beams, pleased with us. She did. She did. She did.

Maybe it's about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it.

Az igazságot egyetlen módon lehet csak megírni: ha feltételezzük, hogy amit megírtunk, soha nem fogja elolvasni senki, Se más, se mi magunk valamikor késÅ'bb. Különben csak mentegeti magát az ember.

You yourself would never have done such things! But you yourself will never have had to.

Now young lady,' he said to me, 'I'm not going to chastize you personally because I can see you are a nice girl and only the innocent means to this abominable end. But you will be so kind as to give these tracts to your employers. Who can tell but that their hearts may yet be softened? The propagation of drink and of drunkenness to excess is an iniquity, a sin against the Lord.

Los fuertes buscarán fuerza, los débiles buscan excusas

And apologies, once postponed, became harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.

Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don't have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.