Quotes About Accountability

Generation Z, they cleaned up their own mess.

One day History will pass judgment on each of the nations at war; she will weigh their measure of errors, lies, and heinous follies. Let us try to make ours light before her!

War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.

The United States has done more for the war crimes tribunal than any other country in the world. We're turning over all the information we have, including intelligence information.

Why is the country not having this conversation, the kind of conversation that requires the politicians who are responsible for the war to be specific to the concerns of the American people.

This is our fault. My fault as much as the next man's, because even if I was against the war, I didn't do enough to stop it.

If we don't prosecute war criminals, what's the next horrible thing they can do? As anyone knows, if you're not held accountable, you think you can get away with it, and it becomes OK.

All war aims for impunity.

How do you keep war accountable to the American people when war becomes invisible and virtual?

I've called David Cameron worse things than joker....and a former Prime Minister Tony Blair is widely referred to as a war criminal.

The sons of all of us will pay in the future if we of the present do not do justice in the present.

An admiral should be put to death now and then to encourage the others.

The undeserver may sleep when the man of action is called on.

The only difference between a grown-up's mistake and a child's is the size of the consequence.

The more we're thrown into conflict with each other through engineered distrust, the less able we are to unite against those responsible.

If those who are sent to draw water begin by drinking themselves, the army is suffering from thirst. [One may know the condition of a whole army from the behavior of a single man.]

It is the duty of youths to war against indiscipline and corruption because they are the leaders of tomorrow.

If they didn't want to know, they shouldn't have asked.

People turned against each other cannot turn against those responsible.

Where would the world be if we took every man to book? There were thousands of Kantoreks, all of whom were convinced that they were acting for the best- in a way that cost them nothing.

You cannot become a peacemaker without communication. Silence is a passive aggressive grenade thrown by insecure people that want war, but they don't want the accountability of starting it.

Don't start a fight if you can't duke it out. Either win or concede but whatever you do, don't have others fight for you.

…If one who slays one is a murderer then he who slays a thousand is not a hero, ' said Lalu.- Pg. #112, Across the Black Waters.

People count with self-satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but they keep no beads for reckoning the number of idle words they speak.