Quotes About Accountability

Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.

FAY: The British police force used to be run by men of integrity. TRUSCOTT: That is a mistake which has been rectified.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Never believe a promise from a man or woman who has no discipline. They have broken a thousand promises to themselves, and they break their promise for you.

It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.

Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.

A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.

To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.

Every organization of men, be it social or political, ultimately relies on man's capacity for making promises and keeping them.

Man must now assume the responsibility for his world. He can no longer shove it off on religious power.

Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness.

Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.

It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.

As a wise man once said, 'If not us, then who; if not now, then when?'

Never blame a man for misfortune, do it yourself.

A man is not a dictator when he is given a commission from the people and carries it out.

When scrutiny is lacking, tyranny, corruption and man's baser qualities have a better chance of entering into the public business of any government.

One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god.

Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others.

The truly religious man does everything as if everything depends on himself, and then leaves everything as if everything depended on God.

Nations begin to dig their own graves when men talk more of human rights and less of human duties.

A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.

The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters.