Quotes About Accountability

We find a direct link between results and the degree to which the executive sponsor remains visibly engaged.

One reason punishment doesn't usually work is that it does not coincide with the undesirable behavior; it occurs afterward, and sometimes, as in courts of law, long afterward. The subject therefore may not connect the punishment to his or her previous deeds; animals never do, and people often fail to. If a finger fell off every time someone stole something, or if cars burst into flames when they were parked illegally, I expect stolen property and parking tickets would be nearly nonexistent.

Everything in life comes with a pooper scooper factor

We were keeping a tally of who is to blame and how much. Shawn was at the top and Sarah wasn't far behind.

And I began to realize that ultimately I was responsible for my own happiness, that blaming other people was counterproductive.

Nowhere does it say free speech is carte blanche to be a jerk. And don't cheapen real free speech by hijacking an honourable concept bought dearly with people's lives just to get a little spotlight. Spotlights run hot, and they can burn.

Sitting back and not getting involved while people get killed in an endless cycle of wars doesn't count as not having blood on your hands.

You'd better clean up your own backyard before you start talkin' trash." Because I would bet money—and I'm not a betting person—that each one of those women has something in their closets they'd rather not air. Everybody does. Especially those who are always eager to cast the first stone.

Everyone had a reason for everything they did, even if that reason was sometimes stupidity.

Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the peoples body.

There exists a solidarity among men as human beings that makes each co-responsible for every wrong and every injustice in the world, especially for crimes committed in his presence or with his knowledge. If I fail to do whatever I can to prevent them, I too am guilty.

I have to do this, as long as it is at all possible; for if those who are obliged to look after commas had always made sure they were in the right place, then Shanghai would not be burning.

We do not choose political freedom because it promises us this or that. We choose it because it makes possible the only dignified form of human coexistence, the only form in which we can be fully responsible for ourselves. Whether we realize its possibilities depends on all kinds of things — and above all on ourselves.

Assign someone who isn't actively participating in the discussion to be the scribe, responsible for taking accurate notes. Session notes should contain an attendee list, invitees who did not attend, decisions made, actions to be taken and who is responsible for each, outstanding issues, and the high points of key discussions.

There are the choices that we make and the consequences, that's all.

Leadership requires you to live above board

It seems to me them that sees an evil thing unfold and don't do nothin' to prevent it, are just as bad as them that does the evil.

The dragons of twentieth-century life are ignorance, incompetence, slackness and disloyalty, she said.

But I knew that I would have to live forever with what I did on that night of dying, and that if I chose to be a coward, I would have to repeat such cowardice over and over again in order to justify that it had ever occurred.

Sometimes I don't reflect on the consequences

I want to apologize to all of the people I have let down because of my behavior which has reflected badly on my family, friends, co-workers, business associates and others.

I always think boredom is to some extent the fault of the bored.

Dear good white people (you know who you are), I have a secret to tell you: There is no such thing. There are only white people who work to do good, just things. You are an ally because of your actions, not because you say you are. You're an ally when you call out racist comments, when you listen and learn, when you work in solidarity with people of color to dismantle institutional racism, when your efforts and actions are felt by others. Not just when you wear a safety pin.

Like Frankenstein, I am afraid of the monster I have called into existence.