Quotes About Accountability

Morální a metafyzickou vinu nesou za rodi?e jejich dÄ›ti a dÄ›ti dÄ›tí; taková vina se nesmaže, ale m?že být jen pÃ…â"¢iznána a - pokud to je možné - od?inÄ›na.

Ale dnes svatozáÃ…â"¢ kolem hlav stát? zmizela. Jsou to lidé a jsou odpovÄ›dni za své ?iny. Od té doby, co evropské národy za?aly stavÄ›t své monarchy pÃ…â"¢ed soud a stínat jim hlavy, je úkolem národ? kontrolovat své v?dce. Státní akty jsou zárove? osobní akty. Odpovídají za nÄ› lidé jako jednotlivci.

Je tÃ…â"¢eba rozliÅ¡ovat dvojí: vÄ›domí viny a uznání nÄ›jaké instituce na svÄ›tÄ› jako soudce.

Kdo se dosud z vlastního popudu neprosvÄ›cuje a nechápe svou vinu, bude mít sklon obžalovávat žalobce

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability.

What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.

When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.

There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.

When men live as if there were no God, it becomes expedient for them that there should be none.

I would rather play with 10 men than wait for a player who is late for the bus.

God judges men according to the use they make of the light which He gives them.

A man's head is not like a scallion, which will grow again if you cut it off; if you cut it off wrongly, then even if you want to correct your error, there is no way of doing it.

The senator's actions in the hours and days after emerging from that pond tell us something ugly about Kennedy the man. That he got away with it tell us something ugly about American public life.

When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.

There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

A man made for public life and authority never takes account of personalities; he only takes account of things, of their weight and their conseqences.

It's not what enters men's mouth that is evil," said the alchemist. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

The fault is in the system and not in the men.

Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.

When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.

Men do not like to admit to even momentary imperfection. My husband forgot the code to turn off the alarm. When the police came, he wouldn't admit he'd forgotten the code... he turned himself in.