Quotes About Accountability

We need to hold those people in charge who were negligent, irresponsible, or simply failed to act accountable for the harm they caused. These cases need to be rigorously pursued, and none of those parties responsible should be allowed to weasel their way out of this.

If you listen to the political discourse in America today, you would think that all our problems have been caused by the Mexicans of the Chinese or the Muslims. The reality is that we have caused our own problems. Whatever has happened has been caused by isolating ourselves or blaming others.

What we need in politics today is not more democracy but less.

She was a bitch. They're all bitches. I'm telling you, they asked me to do it. They begged me.

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Most German perpetrators were never punished or rewarded for their behavior, but they had learned something about themselves. They know what they did or didn't do in the most morally fraught moment of their lives. They have seen themselves in extreme circumstances and, in that, they have seen their own extremes.

Le plus grand mal que tu puisses leur faire, c'est de promettre et de ne pas tenir. D'ailleurs tu le paieras cher et ce sera justice. (p. 14)

Ley 1 de Colombia: Todo gobernante que se va le deja un desastre aumentado al que llega. Ley 2: Todo gobernante que llega es más bellaco que el que se va.

Y sin embargo seguimos eligiendo para los puestos públicos a quienes se siguen llamando, o se dejan llamar cuando les conviene, conservadores o liberales. O son o no son. Si no son, díganlo y renieguen del nombre. Pero si lo son, carguen con la responsabilidad de lo que es hoy Colombia y con la etiqueta que se merecen de infames.

con eso de que aquí, en este país de leyes y constituciones, democrático, no es culpable nadie hasta que no lo condenen, y no lo condenan si no lo juzgan, y no lo juzgan si no lo agarran, y si lo agarran lo sueltan…

History will absolve me.

The devil made me do it!

Both men had made her feel as if she were the one who was at fault, a typically masculine reaction to a woman who was able to act independently of them.

By your words ye are justified and by your words ye are condemned.

But responsibility hardens the heart. It must.

It is horribly disappointing to watch kids learn to blame others for their lack of success instead of becoming people who reach goals through effort and determination

and spending so little time with their kids. Rather than holding their children accountable for their actions, they simply let them run free, believing that "quality" time will make up for the lack of "quantity" of time they spend with their children and that responsibility will eventually rub off on the children during the right "quality" moments.

Responsible behavior has a direct correlation to the number of decisions children are expected to make. The more they make, the more responsible they become.

The law is guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish.

Do not the legislators and their agents form a part of the human race? Do they consider that they are composed of different materials from the rest of mankind?

When successful, we would not have to thank the state for our success. And, conversely, when unsuccessful, we would no more think of blaming the state for our misfortune than would the farmers blame the state because of hail or frost.

Be responsible for ourselves. Look to the State for nothing beyond law and order. Count on it for no wealth, no enlightenment. No more holding it responsible for our faults, our negligence, our improvidence. Count only on ourselves for our subsistence, our physical, intellectual, and moral progress!

para saber lo que hay que hacer, pregúntate, a propósito de la acción que te propones: «¿Podría hacerla otra persona en mi lugar?». Si la respuesta es sí, abandónala, a menos que sea absolutamente indispensable.

You will find out who you are when your choices test you. In the end, we are what we do and what we allow to be done.