Quotes About Accountability

Responsibilty, she discovered, was a sort of drug.

Stop telling her you're sorry- Judge Brady O'Callaghan to politician Melvin G. Slack in a September 1, 2022 protective order hearing, after Slack apologized repeatedly to Global Activist Greshun De Bouse concerning putting her in a chokehold

The Talmud says 'When a man faces his Maker, he will have to account for those pleasures of life he failed to experience.' That's one part of the Talmud I know and the one part I agree with entirely.

In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. If secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the credibility of his victim. If he cannot silence her absolutely, he tries to make sure no one listens.

All must answer for their deeds eventually

I am what I am; I've done what I've done. I can't change any of it.

Responsável significa, naturalmente, amarrar o próprio sapato. Mas significa também não ter permissão para culpar uma infância terrível — ou uma paixão, uma tentação, uma ignorância ou uma inocência — por atos que são nossos, por ações que realmente praticamos. Pois se, na realidade, as praticamos, somos responsáveis.

I'm not usually a maniac. I don't really get angry. I just get sort of circular. Thinking, oh God, this is probably my fault for not doing whatever, and then, I don't know, I talk myself out of anger because it rarely gets the right results, does it? So it just sort of dissipates instead of getting expelled. I mean, not expelled in a school way, in a purgative way.

A great leader never sets himself above his followers except in carrying responsibilities.

Frau-Sein bedeutete nichts weiter als die Erlaubnis, sich jederzeit für unzuständig zu erklären. Egal, ob es um das Wechseln einer Glühbirne, das Töten eines Tiers oder die Entsorgung eines Querulanten ging. Die Weiber riefen "Kann ich nicht!", versteckten das Gesicht in den Händen und sahen später wieder hin, um mit Vorwürfen anzufangen, angesichts dessen, was der Mann getan hatte.

Everything I do, I am responsible for; there is always something else I could have done, some other attitude I could have taken up. To say I am overcome by emotion is to evade the fact that I was the one who acted, who thought at the time that what I was doing was the right thing to do.

A man who breaks a promise has a weak place in his net. Sometimes he'll get by with it, but sometime he'll lose the catch of a lifetime.

La culpa no es de quien dispara la bala o coloca el explosivo, la culpa es de quien ha provocado la maldita guerra, de quien no va al frente pero envía los hombres a morir.

She smiled serenely. "A very wise person once told me that it is not the mistakes we make that reveal our character but what we do to rectify them.

Governments unaccountable to law are tyrannies, whatever they might call themselves, no matter how exceptional and indispensable they declare themselves to be.

We live in America. We live in a free society where we are able to make choices. It's about giving individuals freedoms and holding them accountable.

I would much rather see responsibilities exercised by individuals than have them imposed by the government.

Most emissions aren't caused by individuals, they're caused by corporations and states.

Individuals usually do a better job than the government.

I will call out the lazy, the idle, and the ignorant. I will support the hard working, the industrious, and the law.

I just don't think our best are in politics. I think these guys are inept.

As we try to make the financial system safer, we must inevitably confront the problem of moral hazard.

There's a huge number of people I'm inevitably responsible towards but my biggest responsibility is towards myself. I need to be happy with what I am doing.

MPs put ourselves at the behest of the British people, certainly, but we are not infallible or devoid of sensitivity.