Quotes About Accountability

Where this healthy self-empathy turns into a malignant self-pity is at the arrival of resentment. "Fuck everybody. Nobody gives a shit about me. Fuck them all." That is self-pity and it is dangerous because it signals a lack of accountability for one's mental state and, worse, the outcome of one's life.

That is self-pity and it is dangerous because it signals a lack of accountability for one's mental state and, worse, the outcome of one's life.

Bulls**t,' I say. 'You chose to relapse. You didn't have to.' I hate it when alcoholics relapse and then act like somebody cut the bake lines on their cars. 253-254.

Bulls**t,' I say. 'You chose to relapse. You didn't have to.' I hate it when alcoholics relapse and then act like somebody cut the brake lines on their cars.

Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.

We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.

We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality

My greatest personal mistake is ever to allow a word or moment that "doesn't count," i.e., that I do not refer to my own basic principles. Every word, every action, every moment counts. (This is the pattern on which everybody makes mistakes [or] becomes irrational — not relating their one action or one conviction to another.

Dont switch the blame to her, that's the oldest trick of all cowards

Are you seeking to know what is wrong with the world? All the disasters that have wrecked your world, came from your leaders' attempt to evade the fact that A is A. All the secret evil you dread to face within you and all the pain you have ever endured, came from your own attempt to evade the fact that A is A.

If lightning strikes a rotten tree and it collapses, it's not the fault of the lightning.

There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe, neither in matter nor in spirit—and if the guilty do not pay, then the innocent have to pay it.

The victims are the ones who made injustice possible.

I'm not asking you to do your best. I'm asking you to do your job. -Dagny Taggart

No action could be lower or more futile than for one person to throw upon another the burden of his abdication of choice.

Do you know what she did today? He leaned confidentially across the table, pointing at the dishes in the sink. She went to the market and left all the breakfast dishes there and said she'd do them later. I know what she wanted. She expected me to do them. Well, I'll fool her. I'll leave them just where they are.

Who pays for the orgy?

He was the type of person who believed he alone could do the job adequately and afterward complained that no one had helped.

The people owed it to themselves to monitor those who governed.

To have a villainous ruler imposed on you was a misfortune. To elect him yourself was a disgrace.

Confronted afterward, she claimed no knowledge of that bedroom tryst; she did not intend to be held responsible for men's dreams.

With great power, there must also come, great responsibility

We are the cause of our own sufferings.

Yes, it's comforting to know, when you think about it, that only man can be a bastard