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Quotes About Accountability

But I wonder where we will land if trial judges begin deciding that the fact that a man has committed an atrocious crime is proof sufficient that he is not responsible for his acts.
~ H. L. Mencken
Why kick the man downstream who can't put the parts together because the parts really weren't designed properly?
~ Philip Caldwell
A man is responsible for his ignorance.
~ Milan Kundera, Laughable Loves
We're living in times where men commit crimes and crime don't have a face.
~ Bob Dylan
Give a man free hands, and you'll know where to find them.
~ Mae West
Black women must challenge black men to live up to their best in every arena of the culture - at job, at home, in school and in religious arenas.
~ Michael Eric Dyson
Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.
~ Hesiod
We talk about how many women were raped last year, not about how many men raped women.
~ Jackson Katz
I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got so - there are probably a lot of things I should have done that I didn't do.
~ James Stockdale
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man
~ John F. Kennedy
Ignorance of the law excuses no man.
~ John Selden
Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.
~ Kin Hubbard
Why is there this criminal indifference to the lostness of men? Our condemnation is that we know how to live better than we are living.
~ Leonard Ravenhill
In vain I have looked for a single man capable of seeing his own faults and bringing the charge home against himself.
~ Confucius
All men are created equal. After that, it's up to you.
~ Deacon Jones
Every ruler must remember three things. Firstly, that he rules man; secondly, that he rules according to law, and thirdly, that he does not rule for ever.
~ Agathon
Nobody does good to men with impunity.
~ Auguste Rodin
The more able a man is, if he make ill use of his abilities, the more dangerous will he be to the commonwealth.
~ Demosthenes
We may avoid the laws of man, but there are greater laws that can't be broken.
~ Earl Nightingale
A great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: "There is no indispensable man"
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.
~ H. L. Mencken
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.
~ Herbert Newton Casson
If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.
~ Horace Mann