Quotes About Accountability

But what a way to do things-never to perform a decent action until you are kicked into it and the rest of the world has ceased to believe that your motives can possibly be honest.

A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices.

let us not pretend that we go into this war with clean hands. It is only while we cling to the consciousness that our hands are not clean that we retain the right to defend ourselves.

I HAD learned early in my career that one can do wrong against one's will, and before long I also learned that one can do wrong without ever discovering what one has done or why it was wrong. There were sins that were too subtle to be explained, and there were others that

La guerra faceva da garante all'integrità mentale. Anzi, se si prendono in considerazione le classi dirigenti, costituiva la forma di garanzia più solida. Fino a quando le guerre potevano essere vinte o perdute, nessuna classe dirigente poteva ritenersi totalmente irresponsabile degli avvenimenti. Quando, però, diventa letteralmente continua, la guerra cessa anche di essere pericolosa.

to push an inconvenient person over a cliff solves nothing.

Ä°yi ya da kötü, bu sizin, siz ona aitsiniz ve üstünüzde b?rakt??? izlerden hayat?n?z boyunca kurtulamayacaks?n?z.

thou contentedly let the years slip by and make no effort to repay, then thou hast but the contemptible soul of a slave. No man is otherwise who cannot respect himself and no man can respect himself who does not repay honest debts.

He must pay his debts with all the promptness within his power, not purchasing that for which he is unable to pay

Therefore, please some good gentlemen, tell me that right name you call man who puts off doing those things that mighty good for him. Procrastinator, called a voice.

Cuando yo asumo un trabajo, por pequeño que sea, lo acabo. De otro modo, ¿cómo podría confiar en mí mismo para realizar trabajos importantes?

How can you call yourself a free man when your weakness has brought you to this?

If thou contentedly let the years slip by and make no effort to repay

But hereby resolve to write in this book at least twenty minutes a night. (If discouraged, just think of how much will have been recorded for posterity after one mere year!) (September 5) Oops. Missed a day.

How can Janet know she's not being her best self if someone doesn't tell her, then right away afterwards harshly discipline her?

Writing about Gregor von Rezzori's classic Memoirs of an Anti-Semite, Deborah Eisenberg pointed out the great harm that can be done by a handful of evil people, as long as they have the "passive assistance of many, many other people who glance out of the windows of their secure homes and see a cloudless sky." She goes on to list the sins of such passive people: "carelessness, poor logic, casual snobbery—either social or intellectual—inattentiveness.

Cuando un negocio fracasa, miles de personas se quedan sin empleo o endeudadas; sus directos se escabullen llevándose millones en bonos y en fulgurantes apretones de mano. Y, sin embargo, a ninguno de estos rufianes, que son los responsables, se les escupe, ¡por no decir se les fusila!

There is a huge trust. I see it all the time when people come up to me and say, 'I don't want you to let me down again.' - Boston, Mass., Oct. 3, 2000

The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case.

Heckuva job, Brownie!

Barney spotted our neighbor's lawn, where he promptly took care of his business. There I was, the former president of the United States, with a plastic bag on my hand, picking up that which I had been dodging for the past eight years.

George W. Bush

A great nation does not hide its history. It faces its flaws and corrects them.

Bilateral negotiations with a tyrant rarely turn out well for a democracy. Because they are subjected to little accountability, totalitarian regimes face no pressure to honor their word. They are free to break agreements and then make new demands. A democracy has a choice: give in or provoke a confrontation.