Quotes About Accountability

The thing for us to do is just to do our duty, and not worry about whether anybody sees us do it or not.

None are so ready to find fault with others as those who do things worthy of blame themselves.

If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.

A jury of inquest was impaneled, and after due deliberation and inquiry they returned the inevitable American verdict which has been so familiar to our ears all the days of our lives—NOBODY TO BLAME.

If you are of any account, stay at home and make your way by faithful diligence; but if you are "no account," go away from home, and then you will have to work, whether you want to or not. Thus you become a blessing to your friends by ceasing to be a nuisance to them

It was a new business to me, and I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says: "Yes; the little ones does.

Todo ser humano debería sentirse avergonzado de su especie al pensar en los mamarrachos que siempre han ocupado los tronos.

If you wish to inflict a heartless and malignant punishment upon a young person, pledge him to keep a journal a year.

Can any plausible excuse be furnished for the crime of creating the human race?

Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.

Hi, if you slice your fucking thumb off, don't come crying to us, Round-eye, you bought the book. Take some fucking responsibility for your life. Or

The only people we want to blame are ourselves, because it will be ourselves that we rely upon.

We admit to almost everything, and the almost is all that counts.

Perhaps it was her first realization that criminality spoke for itself. Irrefutable.

It's pathetic—how a man can stand by and do nothing as a whole nation cleans out the garbage and makes itself great." Trudy

When building monsters don't be surprised when they become monstrous.

In accepting an honorary degree from the University of Notre Dame a few years ago, General David Sarnoff made this statement: "We are too prone to make technological instruments the scapegoats for the sins of those who wield them. The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value.

chance of taking responsibility for other people.

It may well be that we will have to repent in this generation. Not merely for the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence and indifference of the good people who sit around and say, Wait on time.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.

No problem is solved when we idly wait for God to undertake full responsibility.

To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.