Quotes About Accountability

Governments, in short, now increasingly farm out their responsibilities to private firms

There is a widespread sense that since 'they' will do what they want in any case—while feathering their own nests—why should 'we' waste time trying to influence the outcome of their actions.

What we have been watching is the steady shift of public responsibility onto the private sector to no discernible collective advantage.

Better to have you curse me for giving you too much freedom, than have you blame me for bad decisions that may or may not have come as a result of my advice.

I'm sick of reading a bunch of hand-wringing bullshit intended to please your circle of friends, or assuage one's guilt of some kind or another. Take a position, have a point of view and fucking live or die with the consequences or don't write.

just want one grown-up in parliament, just one. Or maybe two. I wouldn't want the only one to die of loneliness. One person who will not take a party line of safe in-between wishy-washiness, who will say, this is evil, this is wrong, not only that, this is silly, I won't support it .

Repentance confesses, "God, I am wrong regardless of what anyone else has done." The moment you say, "God, I am wrong but so are they," you are trying to find a defense for remaining like you are.

He knew that to allow those actions to go on unchecked could allow future generations to keep falling and there might never be any correction.

As much as others may need to change, or we may want them to change, the only person we can continually inspire, prod, and shape—with any degree of success—is the person in the mirror.

The key to real change lies not in implementing a new process, but in getting people to hold one another accountable to the process.

An apology is a statement that sincerely expresses your sorrow for your role in causing—or at least not preventing—pain or difficulty to others.

Every society needs particular individuals to do its dirty work for it.

As a manager, you always have a gun to your head. It's a question of whether there is a bullet in the barrel.

While anonymity can be used to protect heroes, it is far more commonly used as a way to escape responsibility. That's why most of the brutal harassment on Twitter, Yik Yak, Reddit, and other sites is delivered anonymously. A lack of responsibility unleashes the worst in us.

You lead by letting others know what you expect of them which may exceed what they themselves expect. Provide them a reputation that they can step up to.

While anonymity can be used to protect heroes, it is far more commonly used as a way to escape responsibility.

Reality discipline steers a course between an authoritarian style and a permissive style, giving kids some choices but also holding them accountable.

Displaying good character as a means of avoiding retribution after life is not just problematic but inherently selfish.

I'd never been the most responsible employee. It was the hard thing about having two jobs: you had to disappoint them at different times and sometimes you lost track of who you'd fucked over worse.

If I can't find something on this plate to eat, that's my fault," she replied.

The Boy Scouts have a rule: "Always leave the campground cleaner than you found it.

The mistakes don't matter. It's what you do when you mess up that does.

It's not about blame or wallowing...you are all molded by so much more than a dysfunctional past, and you must ultimately take responsibility for creating the life you want.

If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.