Quotes About Accountability

It's very easy for some men and in some cases women to sit back and say with 20-20 hindsight, "Tsk-tsk, should have done more." But it doesn't account for the reality.

There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.

Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation.

Speak to your people as to men that must be awakened, either here or in hell.

No one can be wrong with man and right with God.

It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience, but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.

A man can't hit a woman and stay a man. He becomes a loathsome thing, even to himself. But the woman who stays with such a man panders to his darkness. They both risk their souls.

I've never hanged a man. It is the law that has done it.

Good and evil keep very exact accounts... and the face of every man is their ledger.

God's forgiveness is the only thing. And, well, I take full responsibility for the adultery. It was my fault and, you know, no matter what went on, the man has to take responsibility; and I do

Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us.

Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.

You know that murder is wicked. If you saw your master kill a man, do you suppose this would be any excuse for you, if you should commit the same crime?

What makes a man a man? It's the choices he makes. Not how he starts things but how he finishes them.

If you think you're a leader, and you look over your shoulder and there ain't nobody following you, man, you're just takin' a walk.

Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.

The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world.

When a man is wrong and won't admit is, he always gets angry.

One of the evils of democracy is, you have to put up with the man you elect whether you want him or not.

Women tend to immediately take responsibility if somebody messes up with both of us saying it's our fault. Men are quite happy for it to be your fault it seems like.

Financial sense is knowing that certain men will promise to do certain things, and fail.

A man's intentions should be allowed in some respects to plead for his actions.

Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men

Nor does night conceal men's deeds of ill, but whatsoe'er thou dost, think that some God beholds it.