Quotes About Accountability

Real democracy is only possible when people truly imbibe democratic principles and respect ethical values above everything else.

Everyone knows what falling in love is like but being in love is what people have lost. That intimacy to be in bed with somebody and just laugh and not hold anybody accountable for what they say.

Everyone of my generation who preached free love is responsible for AIDS.

The colossal might of wickedness: how we love to locate it massively elsewhere. But so much of it comes down to what each one of us does between breakfast and bedtime.

The moment you function in the world without being concerned about what is happening to life around you, you are a Criminal.

I believe the relationship you have with your government is not so different to a love relationship.

typically, our love for our leaders is one-sided: their successes become our own, while their failures are theirs alone.

I don't like shorts promoting their position.

unmistakable message to boardrooms across the country: You can't lie to shareholders. You can't put yourself in front of your employees' interests. No matter how rich and powerful you are, you have to play by the rules.

Besides, why wasn't the top of the bottle screwed on tight? Because some grown-up had not screwed it on, that's why. Children weren't the only people who did things wrong.

No more stalling, young lady," he said. "You were supposed to be asleep hours ago.

The abusive partner continually denies any responsibility for problems.

And will Mother have to sign your progress reports?

Perhaps it would be an idea to require developers to live on their own estates for five years, as a demonstration of their superb liveability. It's just a thought. I

You shall be led from hence to the place whence you came…and your body shall be opened, your heart and bowels plucked out, and your privy members cut off and thrown into the fire before your eyes.

To call human beings 'stewards' of this planet is like accepting that Jack the Ripper is the right man to start a Home for the Care and Protection of Fallen Women.

And now she's a parasite, living off her host. If he makes a mistake, she made the mistake.

There is nothing I value more in subordinates than their willingness to tell me I'm wrong, to challenge me, to sharpen my decision making. Surrounding yourself with sycophants and bootlickers is the surest route to failure.

But we can't solve a problem like climate change without an honest accounting of how much we need to do and what obstacles we need to overcome.

It requires courage and resolve to resist the constant pressures and expectations confronting you and to take corrective action when necessary.

Making heroes out of celebrity CEOs is at the heart of the crisis in corporate leadership.

Until about 1970 when parents beat their children to death they very often escaped punishment. They would be prosecuted if it was clear and deliberate murder, but if a parent slapped or shook a child and the child died and the parent said the kid fell down the steps, the police virtually never followed up.

The press was to serve the governed, not the governors.

Not doing anything is doing something and choosing to look away is a passive but no less mortal sin.