Quotes About Accountability

Young men can be impetuous, young men can be rush, young men can be fools, but the Car'a'carn cannot let himself be a young man.

I don't owe one man one cent. Anywhere.

The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured.

If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong.

As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.

A man who can't bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them.

If we put corrupt men in public office and sneeringly acquiesce in their corruptions, then we are wrong ourselves.

We must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of attacking the men who are merely the occasions and not the cause of disaster.

A man's life is always dealing with permanence, that is the most dangerous kind of irresponsibility is to think of your doings as temporary.

The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its 'debt' in the penitentiary or the poor house.

A minister, without boldness, is like a smooth file, a knife without an edge, a sentinel that is afraid to let off his gun. If men will be bold in sin, ministers must be bold to reprove.

The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me.

American liberty is premised on the accountability of free men and women for what they have done, not for what they may do.

The man who does ill, ill must suffer too.

For there below ground sits the Dark God, strong to call men to judgment; he sees all, and writes it in his memory.

To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know

None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.

A man can't be taken to hell, or sent to hell: you can only get there on your own steam.

Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.

To be a real man is to be unattached - not from responsibility or justice - but from those dependencies that inhibit responsibility and justice.

Many a man can save himself if he admits he's done wrong and takes his punishment.

There ought to be more scrupulous honesty in big business men than in any other human relation. For big business requires teamwork on a gigantic scale.

If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church.

To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning.