Quotes About Accountability

Furthermore, when their social contraptions fail to fly, ideologues blame not themselves but all who see through the simplifications.

Podrías empezar tratándote como a alguien a quien tienes la responsabilidad de ayudar.

and is taken home and has rough, violent sex (or even tender, caring sex), then what the hell does she expect?" In other words, I could have told her, in more philosophical terms, that she was Nietzsche's "pale criminal"—the person who at one moment dares to break the sacred law and at the next shrinks from paying the price.

Have you cleaned up your life? If the answer is no, here's something to try: Start to stop doing what you know to be wrong. Start stopping today. Don't waste time questioning how you know that what you're doing is wrong, if you are certain that it is.

There are only two major reasons for resentment: being taken advantage of (or allowing yourself to be taken advantage of), or whiny refusal to adopt responsibility and grow up. If you're resentful, look for the reasons.

Because these really are rules. And the foremost rule is that you must take responsibility for your own life. Period.

A responsible person decides to make a problem his or her problem, and then works diligently—even ambitiously—for its solution,

To adopt authority is to learn that power requires concern and competence—and that it comes at a genuine cost.

Did what I want happen? No. Then the world is unfair. People are jealous, and too stupid to understand. It is the fault of something or someone else." That is the voice of inauthenticity.

NOTICE THAT OPPORTUNITY LURKS WHERE RESPONSIBILITY HAS BEEN ABDICATED

hands above waist level, where she can see them.

we don't leave a crucial outcome like honest communication up to chance. We ensure it by making it the sole responsibility of the salesperson, and then providing him or her with a bulletproof formula to achieve that outcome every time.

I'd always thought that rules were just for people who tended to get caught.

if your government isn't wasteful, you're spending too much time fighting government waste.

I was elected to lead—not to watch the polls.

Starker [Leopold] had an adage for people in public service: 'If you're ashamed of it, don't do it. If you're not, publicize it.' " -David Graber, wildlife biologist at Yosemite National Park

You'll learn one day that real apologies don't come with a BUT in the middle.

La gente espera que la policía sea incorrupta, pero ¿por qué ha de serlo, si todos somos humanos?

When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.

Ni miento ni me arrepiento

Traduzco: no es necesario cometer un delito para ser un delincuente.

Al momento de escribir estas líneas, ninguno de los agentes o funcionarios involucrados en el montaje o la tortura de los miembros de la familia Vallarta ha sido sancionado.

Qué distancia separaba a los gobernantes de los gobernados! Algunos de ellos habían sembrado vientos y allí teníamos una muestra de la tempestad

If you want to make use of the advantages of civilization, but are not prepared to concern yourself with the upholding of civilization—you are done.