Quotes About Accountability

La verdadera justicia consiste en pagar sólo una vez por cada error. Lo que es verdaderamente injusto es pagar varias veces por el mismo error.

True justice is paying only once for each mistake. True injustice is paying more than once for each mistake...We make a mistake, we judge ourselves, we find ourselves guilty, and we punish ourselves.

I am responsible for what I say, but I am not responsible for what you understand.

Ser impecable es no ir contra ti mismo. Cuando eres impecable, asumes la responsabilidad de tus actos, pero sin juzgarte ni culparte.

True justice is paying only once for each mistake. True injustice is paying more than once for each mistake

let him who keeps regular office hours cast the first stone.

You never apologised to me for getting my legs broken, either. I said sorry in my own way, Gary. By never referring to it again and dodging the subject whenever I brought it up. Exactly.

Postponing taking action on difficult decisions that you've already made will only make the problem worse. Strong

Leadership is an action, not a position.

The time had come to act, to drink the bitter cup of responsibility.

Así es la gente! Todos son iguales: conocen de antemano todos los aspectos dañinos de una acción, ayudan, aconsejan e incluso la aprueban, al ver que no hay otro remedio, pero luego se lavan las manos y dan la espalda, con indignación, a quien tuvo el valor de cargar con toda responsabilidad. ¡Todos son así, hasta los más bondadosos, hasta los más inteligentes...!

A man is responsible for his ignorance.

What we have not chosen we cannot consider either to our merit or our failure.

We have no idea any more what it means to feel guilty. The communists have the excuse that Stalin misled them, murdurers have the excuse that their mothers didn't love them. And suddenly you come out and say: there is no excuse. No one could be more innocent in his soul and conscience than Oedipus, and yet he punished himself when he saw what he had done.

The life we have left behind us has a bad habit of stepping out of the shadows, of bringing complaints against us, of taking us to court.

Is a fool on the throne relieved of all responsibility merely because he is a fool?

But, he said to himself, whether they knew or didn't know is not the main issue; the main issue is whether a man is innocent because he didn't know. Is a fool on the throne relieved of all responsibility merely because he is a fool?

What we have not chosen we cannot consider our merit or our failure.

He felt responsible for his fate, but his fate felt no responsibility for him.

whether they knew of didn't know is not the main issue; the main issue is whether a man is innocent because he didn't know. (...) by beating himself on the chest and proclaiming, My conscience is clear! I did not know! I was a believer! Isn't his I did not know I was a believer! at the very root of his irreparable guilt?

Dios les dio a los hombres la libertad y por eso podemos suponer que al fin y al cabo no es responsable de los crímenes humanos. Pero el único responsable de la mierda es aquel que creó al hombre.

Aquello que no ha sido elegido por nosotros no podemos considerarlo ni como un mérito ni como un fracaso.

Y llegó a la conclusión de que la cuestión fundamental no es: ¿sabían o no sabían? sino: ¿es inocente un hombre cuando no sabe?, ¿un idiota que ocupa el trono está libre de toda culpa sólo por ser idiota?

Se un uomo fosse responsabile solo di ciò di cui è cosciente, gli idioti sarebbero assolti da in anticipo da qualsiasi colpa