Quotes About Accountability

Great power involves great responsibility

It's a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and to find no one there.

You'll have to learn that public life takes a lot of sweat. But it doesn't need to worry you. You won't always be right, but you musn't suffer from being wrong.

Mincing your words makes it easier if you have to eat them later.

When you hate yourself, you don't neglect your responsibilities. When you hate yourself, you never forget what you did

Nobody does good to man with impunity.

A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it deserves.

There is no forgiveness when one who claims a superiority falls below the standard.

Whoever harms an innocent man, pure and faultless, his evil comes back at him like dust thrown into the wind. Sutta Nipata 662

La humanidad va a pasar un mal rato el día del juicio final, cuando tenga que rendir cuentas de lo que ha estado haciendo, sobre todo a partir del siglo XX, con los animales para carne, particularmente con los terneros, los cerdos y los pollos, las prinicipales víctimas de la ganadería intensiva.

Teenagers who are never required to vacuum are living in one.

where there is individual accountability, things get done. Measure is another magic word: what gets measured creates accountability. With no standard, reliable metric for customer relationships, employees can't be held accountable for them and so overlook their importance.

The Punisher: If there are no consequences to your mistakes...there are no reason not to make them...

The Punisher: If there are no consequences to your mistakes...you have no reason...not to make them...

Success is relevant to coping with obstacles... But no problem is ever solved by those, who, when they fail, look for someone to blame instead of something to do.

Though man or angel judge my life and read it like an open scroll, And weigh my heart, I have judge more just than any—my own soul.

When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.

there was no such thing as collective guilt. But we Germans have been told for twenty years that we are all guilty. Do you believe that?

A journalist should never join the Establishment, no matter how tempting the blandishments. It is our job to hold power to account, not join it. In a world that increasingly obsesses over the gods of power, money, and fame, a journalist and a writer must remain detached, like a bird on a rail, watching, noting, probing, commenting, but never joining. In short, an outsider.

there is no collective guilt,...guilt is individual, like salvation." [p.28]

A journalist should never join the Establishment, no matter how tempting the blandishments. It is our job to hold power to account, not join it.

The student of history knows no more refreshing recreation than that of nailing liars, like vermin, to the wall.

Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves - and by which they are willing to be judged.

Justifying a fault doubles it.