Quotes About Accountability

The bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of one man

For a number of reasons, said Atticus. The main one is, if I didn't I couldn't hold up my head in town, I couldn't represent this county in the legislature, I couldn't even tell you or Jem not to do something again. (Lee 177)

There was no point in saying you were sorry if you aren't.

The best apologies are short, and don't go on to include explanations that run the risk of undoing them. An apology isn't the only chance you ever get to address the underlying issue. The apology is the chance you get to establish the ground for future communication. This is an important and often overlooked distinction.

I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger

So far as freedom is concerned, it is of course true that freedom is commonly understood to be a necessary condition of moral responsibility.

In a sense, I'm the one who ruined me: I did it myself.

In dreams begins responsiblities.

As long as you have the courage to admit mistakes, things can be turned around.

It's easy to talk big, but the important thing is whether or not you clean up the shit.

It's just like Yeats said. In dreams begin responsibilities. Flip this around and you could say that where there's no power to imagine, no responsibility can arise.

Our responsibility begins with our imagination.

It's all a question of imagination. Our responsibility begins with the power to imagine. It's just as Yeats said: In dreams begin responsibility. Turn this on its head and you could say that where there's no power to imagine, no responsibility can arise. Just as we see with Eichmann.

Another person's life is that person's life. You can't take responsibility.

I was confident that I was a special person. But time slowly chips away at life. People don't just die when their time comes. They gradually die away, from the inside. And finally the day comes when you have to settle accounts. Nobody can escape it. People have to pay the price for what they've received. I have only just learned that truth.

Start making excuses and there's no end to it. I can't live that kind of life.

What the world needs is a set villain that people can point at and say, "It's all your fault!

I can't afford to take responsibilities for others' lives. It's all I can do to bear the weight of my own life and my own loneliness.

It's all a question of imagination. Our responsibility begins with the power to imagine. It's just as Yeats said: In dreams begin responsibility. Turn this on its head and you could say that where there's no power to imagine, no responsibility can arise. [...] Just like Adolf Eichmann caught up in the twisted dreams of a man named Hitler. - Oshima

But there are times in this world when it's not enough just not to do the wrong thing

In dreams lie responsibilities.

In a sense, I'm the one who ruined me: I did it myself.

People don't just die when their time comes. They gradually die away, from the inside. And finally the day comes when you have to settle accounts. Nobody can escape it. People have to pay the price for what they've received. I have only just learned that truth.

But listen to me--there are times in life when those kinds of excuses don't cut it anymore. Situations when nobody cares whether you're suited for the task at hand or not.