Quotes About Accountability

What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews.

But there's only one person I'm accountable to, and that's me.

I don't believe the war is simply the work of politicians and capitalists. Oh no, the common man is every bit as guilty; otherwise, people and nations would have rebelled long ago!

Wat één christen doet, moet hijzelf verantwoorden, wat één jood doet, valt op alle joden terug.

What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does reflect on all Jews.

That's how every act of carelessness begins and ends. No one will notice, no one will hear, no one will pay the least bit of attention. Easy to say, but is it true?

Well, Anne, you still have a lot to learn. It's time you made a beginning, instead of looking down at other people and always blaming them!

Oh, it is sad, very sad, that once more , for the umpteenth time, the old truth is confirmed: What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews.

I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone, are guilty of the war. Oh no, the little man is just as guilty, otherwise the peoples of the world would have risen in revolt long ago!

Oh, it's sad, very sad that the old adage has been confirmed for the umpteenth time: "What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does reflects on all Jews.

In recovery, they say there are no victims, only volunteers, […]

Whales might not lie, but like anybody else, Sean suspected they probably wanted to put the best spin they could on an error in judgment when called to account for their actions.

If you drive a man to choose between death of his body or corruption of his soul, how much are you also to blame if his choice is the wrong one?

One man's sin does not justify another's.

Those who stand by and watch are complicit in what they could have stopped but chose not to.

We all know that things go on we'd sooner not think about, an' most folk mind their own affairs. But if yer forced ter know, then yer forced ter do summink.

It is a uniquely distressing experience to see yourself only through the eyes of others, too often those you have injured in some way, to know irrefutably what you have done but not why you did it, not the mitigating circumstances, the beliefs you held at the time which made your actions seem reasonable then.

It isn't what you feel, it's what you do that counts.

This time it was Daniel who interrupted. "What's always right?" "Kindness," Pitt answered with certainty. "Keeping your promises. Not giving up just because it gets hard. Owning up to your mistakes, and not blaming other people even if you would get away with it.

one thing about responsibility Ã¢â'¬Â¦ you cannot ever take anyone else's, no matter how you love them, and no one can give you theirs. We each stand alone.

One pretends nothing can be done; therefore, one can do nothing and feel perfectly justified. I think it is only another kind of dishonesty

What you see, and allow without a fight, is what you become yourself. What is the moral difference between the man who burns his neighbor to death, and the man who stands by and watches him do it?

The men deserve what will happen to them. As a species, they will reap what they have sown.

death, no matter how often and regularly I am the cause of it.