Quotes About Accountability

Whether we forget something we are not proud of, or embellish it, or blame somebody else, we want to save face by not owning up to shortcomings.

Others are responsible for the trouble I am in—so I am entitled to repair. And what kind of repair would it be, if I made all the effort! Naturally, only a person who has lost constructive interest in his life can argue that way. It is no longer up to him to do something about his life; it is up to "them," or to fate.

Because any misbehavior in a younger child was always the fault of the older. That was how a family worked.

The world runs," Lowell said, "on the fuel of this endless, fathomless misery. People know it, but they don't mind what they don't see. Make them look and they mind, but you're the one they hate, because you're the one that made them look." They

Abdicating-Decision-Making

Humans have too many rights and not enough responsibilities. -Aras

The monsters don't run the gulags and the death camps and the reeducation centers. Regular people do. If they all had the balls to say no, the likes of Halsey, Zhou, or Stalin could never do it all on their own. Could they?

Before you handed someone power, you had to ask yourself if you'd be happy with the worst possible thing they could ever do with it.

But such is power, you get it, then you do things with it. And then you have to live with it.

think what you like, hate who you like, because that's between you and God, but you will act as the community requires, or the community will no longer require you.

I tell you this: think what you like, hate who you like, because that's between you and God, but you will act as the community requires, or the community will no longer require you.

but instead of apologizing, I said, 'It's your own fault for playing tennis.

You can't light a match, then act surprised when your house burns down.

Anything's legal if you can get away with it." Maggie slammed the locker closed. "Welcome to the Atlanta Police Department.

Will hated those cops, had worked more than a few cases where he'd gotten them kicked off the force. You couldn't say you were one of the good guys if you did the same thing the bad guys did.

I opened my mouth to say what a horrible accident, that I was an idiot, that I hadn't been looking where I was going and it was all my fault and blah-blah-blah, but instead of apologizing, I said, 'It's your own fault for playing tennis.

that police captain, Jacob Mayhew, dropped

I guess you can go into all that feminist bullshit about how women should be able to do whatever they want to do and men should just get used to it, but . . ." Lena paused again. "It's like this," she said. "If I parked my car in the middle of Atlanta with the windows rolled down and the keys in the ignition, whose fault is it when somebody steals it?

Dušo, znam da imaš posla i znam da ?e biti opasno, ali u što god da se danas uvališ, ne?e biti ni približno tako opasno po život kao ono što ?e se dogoditi ako mi ikad više napraviš ono što si mi radio sino? i nakon toga zaklju?iš da se drugo jutro možeš izvu?i sa rukovanjem. Dobro?

People just dump their trash here and don't even care about who has to pick it up. Like they think the trash fairy's gonna do it or something.

The addict's credo: It's always somebody else's fault.

Some Other Dude Did It

Do you think anyone's watching background checks? Mass murderers buy machine guns and enough ammo to take down twenty schools and no one bats an eye.

I hate rape cases. You don't throw a murder case to a jury and they ask, 'Well, was the guy really murdered or is he lying because he wants the attention? And what was he doing in that part of town? And why was he drinking? And what about all those murderers he dated before?