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Quotes About Accountability

Unser Leben ist uns nur für einen Moment geliehen. Niemand weiß, wann der Engel an unsere Tür klopft und die Schuld einfordert.
~ John Speed
When action is divorced from consequences, no one is happy with the ultimate outcome. If individuals can take from a common pot regardless of how much they put in it, each person has an incentive to be a free rider, to do as little as possible and take as much as possible because what one fails to take will be taken by someone else. Soon, the pot is empty and will not be refilled -- a bad situation even for the earlier takers.
~ John Stossel
It's not about electing the right people. It's about a narrowing their responsibilities.
~ John Stossel
Instead of the function of governing, for which it is radically unfit, the proper office of a representative assembly is to watch and control the government.
~ John Stuart Mill
The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.
~ John Stuart Mill
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in neither case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
~ John Stuart Mill
If any one does an act hurtful to others, there is a primâ facie case for punishing him, by law, or, where legal penalties are not safely applicable, by general disapprobation
~ John Stuart Mill
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. The latter case, it is true, requires a much more cautious exercise of compulsion than the former. To make any one answerable for doing evil to others, is the rule; to make him answerable for not preventing evil, is, comparatively speaking, the exception.
~ John Stuart Mill
People individually do best for everyone when they do best for themselves, when they aren't commanded too much or protected against the consequences of their own folly.
~ John Taylor Gatto
The obligation to amuse and instruct myself was entirely my own, and people who didn't know that were childish people, to be avoided if possible. Certainly not to be trusted.
~ John Taylor Gatto
Action requires courage," Thomas said. "Inaction only requires excuses.
~ John Twelve Hawks
When I teach at Michigan, on the first day I tell the students, "You will not miss class. You will not be late to class. You will not use a laptop, or a cell phone, or wear a hat. My late-paper policy is simple: There will be no late papers, ever. That is my 'late-paper policy.' Why? This is Michigan.
~ John U. Bacon
Roll call. (We have to start every day with this just to check nobody has run away or died in their beds.)
~ John van de Ruit
From those to whom privilege and opportunity are given, we have the right to expect much.
~ John Vasconcellos
To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning.
~ John W. Gardner
Article 1, Section 9, Clause 7 of the Constitution empowers Congress and makes the United States a democracy by guaranteeing that the people's representatives will know what governmental agencies are
~ John W. Whitehead
The second principle revolves around the belief that no one is above the law, not even those
~ John W. Whitehead
2006 Congressional Pig Book were
~ John W. Whitehead
A lot of guys make mistakes, I guess, but every one we make, a whole stack of chips goes with it. We make a mistake, and some guy don't walk away - forevermore, he don't walk away
~ John Wayne
Sorry don't get it done, Dude.
~ John Wayne
I'd like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living.
~ John Wayne
As one instance of this, be always ready to own any fault you have been in. If you have at any time thought, spoken, or acted wrong, be not backward to acknowledge it. Never dream that this will hurt the cause of God; no, it will further it. Be therefore open and frank when you are taxed with anything; do not seek either to evade or disguise it; but let it appear just as it is, and you will thereby not hinder but adorn the Gospel.
~ John Wesley
The blame culture that still prevails in the majority of businesses works against this, as it causes "false reality syndrome" or "I will tell you what I think you want to hear, or what will keep me out of trouble.
~ John Whitmore
Všichni rádi v??íme tomu, že problém spo?ívá v druhých lidech. Dává nám to pocit, že jednáme správn? a že my sami nemusíme nic m?nit.
~ John Whitmore