Quotes About Accountability

1. If he has ever treated another woman badly, don't assume it's going to be different with you. 2. If he blames his past problems entirely on the woman, be skeptical. 3. If he blames his past problems on himself, he is probably telling the truth and will probably be the same with you.

While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.

Our Behaviour is a function of our decisions, not our conditions

It was announced that any parent arriving more than ten minutes late would pay $3 per child for each incident. The fee would be added to the parents' monthly bill, which was roughly $380. After the fine was enacted, the number of late pickups promptly went…up.

Could any man resist the temptation of evil if he knew his acts could not be witnessed?

Politicians have all sorts of reasons to pass all sorts of laws that, as well-meaning as they may be, fail to account for the way real people respond to real-world incentives.

When bad predictions are unpunished, what incentive is there to stop making them?

Cuando a la gente no se la obliga a pagar todos los costes de sus acciones, tiene pocos incentivos para cambiar de conducta.

finding a few bad apples out of millions would be difficult. Our odds would improve if we could somehow trick the bad apples into revealing themselves.

Do I agree that with privilege comes responsibility? The answer is no. I believe that responsibilities arise when one undertakes them voluntarily. I also believe that in the absence of explicit contracts, people who lecture other people on their responsibilities are almost always up to no good.

Foremost is reason. Reason is nonnegotiable. As soon as you show up to discuss the question of what we should live for (or any other question), as long as you insist that your answers, whatever they are, are reasonable or justified or true and that therefore other people ought to believe them too, then you have committed yourself to reason, and to holding your beliefs accountable to objective standards.

Unfortunately the epistemological standards of common sense—we should credit the people and ideas that make correct predictions, and discount the ones that don't—are rarely applied to the intelligentsia and commentariat, who dispense opinions free of accountability.

Door aan het licht te brengen dat de wetten die in het universum gelden geen doel hebben, dwingen wetenschappelijke krachten ons verantwoordelijkheid te nemen voor ons eigen welzijn, onze soort en onze planeet.

People love WikiLeaks when it is exposing corruption in their opponents. People oppose WikiLeaks when it is exposing corruption or dangerous behavior in themselves.

Responsibility means being able to respond to whatever situation you may face in your life.

To govern is to correct. If you set an example by being correct, who would dare to remain incorrect?

To fall in love means to fall into something... And that something is responsibility.

Don't fall in love with your own excuses.

It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.

If I decide to run for office, I will release my tax returns. Absolutely. I would love to do that.

In my case, I learned that although God loves us, he doesn't grant us immunity from the consequences of our choices.

Consequences are a concept for the sober.

Dad didn't believe in God, but he was a lifelong member of the Church of Shit or Get Off the Can.

Okay. Here's what I've learned. You can live your life being nice to everyone, you can be a loving son, a moderately decent student, never do hard drugs or impregnate anyone's daughter, be an all-around good guy and live in harmony with all of God's creatures. But crash one stolen Mercedes in front of the police station when you're fifteen years old and they'll never let you forget it.