Quotes About Accountability

Avrus ipse miseriae causa est suae. (Publilius Sent.:

But if I'm useless only because I haven't been properly educated, is that my fault?

If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.

Responsible is Able to Respond, able to answer for the way we choose to live. There's only one person we have to answer to, of course, and that is...? ...ourselves.

Live never to be ashamed if anything you do or say is published around the world.

If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim. Richard Bach

Yo soy el hechicero, y cuando abra los ojos veré un mundo que he creado yo, y por el cual sólo yo soy completamente responsable».

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YaÅŸam?n?z boyunca yapmaya mecbur olduÄŸunuz tek ÅŸey kendinize kar?? dürüst olmakt?r.

Wenn man sich für jemanden verantwortlich fühlt, kann es sein, daß man ihn schließlich haßt.

The first fact was that if Heidi hadn't picked that particular day to try out a little autoeroticism, Halleck would have been on top of his job and his responsibility as the operator of a motor vehicle

So why are we still being lied to about these cases? They seem to be missing a basic point about Democracy— they are our employees. They're employed by us— We, The People. How dare they withhold the truth from us!

Admit that you're wrong- or that you've made a mistake.

Do we really need policing — whether by God or by each other — in order to stop us from behaving in a selfish and criminal manner?

Shouldn't you take greater care, when speaking in public, to let your yea be yea and nay be nay?

Why are genetic determinants thought to be any more ineluctable, or blame-absolving, than 'environmental' ones?

And there are words, significant words, you do not want to say, words that account for busted-up lives, words that try to fix something ruined that shouldn't be ruined and no one wanted ruined, and that words can't fix anyway. Telling

It is we ourselves who are responsible for knowing the truth

The people in charge blame the whites, blame the parents, blame the teachers, blame the students, and now they're blaming the buildings. The facilities are run-down because they haven't maintained them properly. They say there's no money for maintenance, but they spend a fortune on hiring consultant after consultant. Oh my God, so many consultants when we didn't have any textbooks or paper.

Of course, coaches are Humans. They tend to do things the way they have always been done, because those decisions will not be second-guessed by the boss. As Keynes noted, following the conventional wisdom keeps you from getting fired.

No such thing as time travel, he'd rumbled patiently, once. Only live with what you've done, and try in the future to do what you're happy to live with.

You can't talk to people like that. Soldiers, corporate execs, politicians. All you can do is kill them, and even that rarely makes things any better. They just leave their shit behind, and someone else to carry on.

She said, I have no excuses, least of all for God. Like all tyrants, he is not worthy of the spit you would waste on negotiations. The deal we have is infinitely simpler—I don't call him to account, and he extends me the same courtesy.

They tell you to save the ship at all costs. No one ever talks about whether the passengers and crew deserve all that effort.