Quotes About Accountability

If NATO goes in and solves the crisis in Darfur, when the next one comes along Africa's leaders will just sit back.

The marginal cost of doing something 'just this once' always seems to be negligible, but the full cost will typically be much higher. Yet unconsciously, we will naturally employ the marginal-cost doctrine in our personal lives.

If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

There are many paths open to us at all times, Jaina. As leaders of those who trust us, we owe it to them to examine every one.

The team leader, Dr. Joe Spagnola, gave him a quick look as well. It pretty much said, You maggot, if you leave one of my men behind, don't ever go to sleep because I'll be coming for you. At least Barry interpreted the look that way.

by the time you're in college, you're responsible for what you do. Your moral code is developed

The gap between rich and poor was not just one of wealth but of accountability.

We no longer whip people through the streets. Instead we send them to executive-level open jails for a few months' R&R before they hire PR teams to restore their reputations. Fraud, perjury, perverting the course of justice count as nothing

gap between rich and poor was not just one of wealth but of accountability

T]hose who willed the means and wished the ends are not absolved from guilt by the refusal of reality to match their schemes.

You don't say 'they all do it' unless you know you've been doing it too.

The people most reluctant to use weapons are the ones who can best be trusted with them.

It's the ones who don't blame themselves who are more likely to be guilty of wrongdoing.

If I be cruel and grow tyrannous, Now let them thank themselves, and rue too late.

Is not all the power on Earth bestowed on us {the Pope}, even if we wanted to, can do no wrong?

Sweetheart, wake up; you've destroyed the house and I need you to suffer for it.

A death that results from your actions is basically killing someone, unless you're a politician, right?

We will bring your guilt as well. You wouldn't have escaped it anyway. It is a parent's gift.

Well, one guy died because of something I said to him, and another had a heart attack because of something I did. A death that results from your actions is basically killing someone, unless you're a politician, right? So why me?

If it be not destiny, then surely there is plausible deniability, which in the parlance of politics is the same thing.

It is better to ask for an apology than to ask for permission.

It is a better world. A place where we ate responsible for our actions, where we can be kind to one another because we want to and becauseit is the right thing to do instead of being frightened into behaving by the threat of divine punishment.

Everyone messes up. How you deal with it is what determines who you are.