Quotes About Accountability

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

164 En medio de mi inorancia conozco que nada valgo: soy la liebre o soy el galgo asigún los tiempos andan; pero también los que mandan debieran cuidarnos algo. 165

Take this example: if I have killed the father of a family, if I have made of a woman a sorrowing widow and destitute orphans of some happy children, have I satisfied eternal Justice by letting myself be hanged, or by entrusting my secret to one who is obliged to guard it for me, or by giving alms to priests who are least in need of them, or by buying indulgences and lamenting night and day? What of the widow and the orphans?

I honour the father for the merit of his son, but I don't honour the son because of the father. Let everyone be rewarded or punished because of what he himself does, not what others do.

Los Pueblos tienen los Gobiernos que se merecen.

The reduced sense of responsibility and the absence of effective volition in turn explain the ordinary citizen's ignorance and lack of judgement in matters of domestic and foreign policy which are if anything more shocking in the case of educated people and of people who are successfully active in non-political walks of life than it is with uneducated people in humble stations.

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

Going home must be like going to render an account.

Every country has the government it deserves.

Every nation has the government it deserves

Rather than justice for all, we are evolving into a system of justice for those who can afford it. We have banks that are not only too big to fail, but too big to be held accountable.

The ignoble fate of the political appointee.

After all, as the old saw has it, lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

I'm pretty insistent about taking blame when it's deserved; I'm less concerned about claiming credit." DeWitt

A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.

There's no such thing as a genius in politics, or at least I have never met one. There are only human beings, some better than others, who rise or fall on the challenges they meet.

It won't be long before we'll be deafened by the screeches of whistles being blown by whistle-blowers blowing the whistle on themselves.

It was that hard; I still feel that way. But I believe that President Bush failed to lead. History will judge him harshly not for the mistakes he made- we all make mistakes- but for the opportunities he squandered.

I think you're a damn war criminal and you should be tried as one.

back." As he spoke, Ivypool sprang to her paws. "This is all my fault," she mewed

What have I done?

Only then did she realize that she had completely forgotten to meet Crowfeather at twilight. CHAPTER

gaze steadily. "This is your decision, Fireheart. No cat can make it for you.

Ravenpaw, wolfing down a small finch beside the tree stump. He saw Firepaw approach the pile and flicked his head encouragingly. Firepaw bent his neck, ready to take a small wood mouse in his teeth. "Not for you," Tigerclaw growled, striding up behind him and pawing the mouse away. "You didn't bring back any prey. The elders will eat your share. Take it to them.