Quotes About Accountability

The way forward is not simply to make corporations more accountable or to set up regulative bureaucracies; it is not even a matter of recognizing full citizenship for the 'coloured', 'elderly', 'disabled', 'women', or 'queer' through liberal pluralist policy. Likewise, the conservation of a few 'pristine' patches of nature at the margins of urban capitalism will have little effect on the collapse of biodiversity.

How do they know what to do?" Mary Frances said. "To just rip into a building like that and expect it to stay standing." "For the parts you want to stay standing," Tim said. "Exactly." "Practice," Al said. "And of course, one of them is in charge." Mary Frances studied the tangle of men, all dressed alike, movingly easily together. "I can't tell them apart." "Well, it's like war, I guess," Al said. "If you knew whom to blame, it'd be too easy to shoot him.

Never do anything that you can't admit doing, because if you are that ashamed of whatever it is, it's probably wrong.

The greatest crisis in the world today is a crisis of leadership, and the greatest crisis of leadership is a crisis of character.

If you load responsibility on a man unworthy of it he will always betray himself

I done learned my mistake and learned to do what's right by it. You still trying to get something for nothing. Life don't owe you nothing. You owe it to yourself. - Troy -

Todo político es un empleado de la sociedad pagado de dinero del contribuyente. Tener éxito es su obligación y no objeto de exaltación. El político que no se considera siervo de la sociedad, sino que se sirve de ella, no es digno del cargo que ocupa

I think one must take responsibility for one's actions and one's decisions. But one should never take -- one should never assume that everything that happens for the good is achieved by one's self alone.

The root of a nation's misfortunes has to be sought in the moral failings of the government.

Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.

I think I should be active politically. Because I look upon myself as a politician. That's not a dirty work you know. Some people think that there are something wrong with politicians. Of course, something wrong with some politicians.

Criminals of folly? Ye but sin against self

Freedom is a package deal - with it comes responsibilities and consequences.

Get into the habit of asking yourself if what you are doing can be handled by someone else.

The guilty catch themselves.

I liked being a minor because you can't get into trouble. Now I just have to try and behave myself.

It's frightening to be free, to have to take responsibility for your decisions.

Ä°nsan yaln?zca söylediklerinden deÄŸil, sustuklar?ndan da sorumludur.

Organizations rarely progress in absence of well defined codes of conduct and system to ensure that these are strictly adhered to. Same is true for society.

justice and the birch.

one can't escape the consequence of an action do whatever one may.]

Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly to the end, without consideration of the means and degrees; pursue some few principles, which they have chanced upon absurdly; care not to innovate, which draws unknown inconveniences; use extreme remedies at first; and, that which doubleth all errors, will not acknowledge or retract them; like an unready horse, that will neither stop nor turn.

The calling of a man's self to a strict account, is a medicine, sometime too piercing and corrosive.

What writers are expected to write, they write; or else they do not write at all.