Quotes About Accountability

Where there is no repentance, forgiveness is only permission by another name. I

Again, I did what I could. I didn't doubt, and didn't deny, that there were people who could have done a better job than me, people with more skill and experience, but I played the hand I was given, dealt with the problem, and the person, in front of me, and at least I felt reasonably sure I was doing no harm.

Out of the gosple he tho wordes caughte, And this figure he added eek therto, That if gold ruste, what shal iren do? For if a preest be foul, on whom we truste, No wonder is a lewed man to ruste; And shame it is, if a prest take keep, A shiten shepherde and a clene sheep. Wel oghte a preest ensample for to yive, By his clennesse, how that his sheep sholde lyve.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence...on pain of liquidation

La libertad supone responsabilidad. Por eso la mayor parte de los hombres la temen tanto.

Postajemo mudri ne zbog toga što se prise?amo naše prošlosti, ve? što postajemo odgovorni za našu budu?nost.

Különben is: melyÅ'nk tud számot adni arról, hogy mit cselekszik? Ha számot adnánk, nem is cselekednénk.

You show me a lazy prick who's lying in bed all day, watching TV, only occasionally getting up to piss, and I'll show you a guy who's not causing any trouble.

If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.

I think everyone should treat one another in a Christian manner. I will not, however, be responsible for the consequences.

I think one of the problems in this country is that too many people are screwing things up, committing crimes and then getting on with their lives. What is really needed for public officials who shame themselves is ritual suicide.

I am sick of hearing about innocent victims, there are no innocent victims. If you live on this planet you're guilty. Period, f... you, end of report, next case, next f...ing case.

That was about as effective as blaming it on God, and as practical, too. You couldn't get a lawyer to sue either of them.

The clergy are, practically, the most irresponsible of all talkers. [ Evangelical Teaching: Dr. Cumming, The Westminster Review, 1885. ]

There's nothing kills a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

I shall do everything it becomes me to do.

I daresay some would never get their eyes opened if it were not for a violent shock from the consequences of their own actions

No, said Godfrey, with a keen decisiveness of tone, in contrast with his usually careless and unemphatic speech—there's debts we can't pay like money debts, by paying extra for the years that have slipped by. While I've been putting off and putting off, the trees have been growing—it's too late now. Marner was in the right in what he said about a man's turning away a blessing from his door: it falls to somebody else.

You know I have duties??we both have duties??before which feeling must be sacrificed.

Our deeds determine us, as long as we determine our deeds

1st Gent. Our deeds are fetters that we forge ourselves. 2d Gent. Ay, truly: but I think it is the world That brings the iron. [1]