Quotes About Accountability

Man's liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of its neighbors.

A man who makes a one-dollar profit on his expense account is dishonest. A man who loses five cents on one is a damned fool.

Away with the cant of 'Measures not men!'-the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along.

When people ask if the United States can afford to place on trial the president, if the system can stand impeachment, my answer is, "Can we stand anything else?

After 40, a man is responsible for his face.

Men have made of fortune an all-powerful goddess, in order that she may be made responsible for all their blunder's.

African famine is not a visitation of fate. It is largely man-made, and the men who made it are largely Africans.

Violence is a choice a man makes and he alone is responsible for it.

If the fans want me out, I'll put my hands up and leave. Like a proper man. I won't make excuses, I'll leave.

This man called President Bush has a lot to answer for. I don't know if this man is really taking care of America. This government has been shameful.

One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders. Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it.

It was neither preaching nor praying that made a better man of me, but one or two people who believed in me better than I deserved, and I hated to disappoint them.

For Hades is mighty in calling men to account below the earth, and with a mind that records in tablets he surveys all things.

A consciousness of misfortunes arising from a man's own misconduct aggravates their bitterness.

God is not necessary to create culpability, or to punish. Our fellow men are enough for that, helped by ourselves.

A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.

There is a bizarre notion according to which it is claimed that because men are corrupt, it is necessary to give certain of them all the more power... on the contrary, they must be given less power.

A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless!

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

Let every man shovel out his own snow, and the whole city will be passable," said Gamache. Seeing Beauvoir's puzzled expression he added, "Emerson." "Lake and Palmer?" "Ralph and Waldo.

When things haven't gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.

Never ask a man where's he's been. If he's out on legitimate business, he doesn't need an alibi. And, girls, if he has been out on illegitimate business, it's your own fault.

Responsiblity is the great developer of men.