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Quotes About Accountability

Any man who'd make an X-rated movie ought to have to take his daughter to see it.
~ John Wayne
A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?
~ Chinua Achebe
Let it [racism] be a problem to someone else... Let it drag them down. Don't use it as an excuse for your own shortcomings.
~ Colin Powell
Six men can carry you or 12 men can judge you. You decide!
~ Duane Chapman
Not men but measures a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.
~ Edmund Burke
By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.
~ Edward Abbey
Always blame conditions, not men
~ Frank Norris
There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.
~ George Eliot
There is one excuse for every mistake a man can make, but only one. When a fellow makes the same mistake twice he's got to throw up both hands and own up to carelessness or cussedness.
~ George Horace Lorimer
I'm the type that'll give any man a chance to come correct before leavin in a ambulance
~ Lord Finesse
Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
There should be a colossal mother going about the world to turn men over her lap and give them the slipper. They pine for it.
~ Mary Catherwood
If Jupiter should hurl a bolt whenever men sin, His armory would quickly be empty.
~ Ovid
By boosting oversight and accountability, we can empower the VA in its core mission of helping the men and women who have served our country.
~ Ann Kirkpatrick
New Rule: Someone has to tell Francesco Schettino that embracing a callous policy of "every man for himself" doesn't make you a sea captain. It makes you the Republican nominee.
~ Bill Maher
As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.
~ Pierre Corneille
As long as a man does not sin, he is feared. As soon as he sins, he himself is in fear.
~ Rabbi Ishmael
Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
In terms of morals there is no such thing as 'state.' Just men. Individuals. Each responsible for his own acts.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
The man who acts the least, upbraids the most.
~ Homer
At what point does a man turn into a monster? I don't believe that it's when he does horrible things, but when he accepts that he's able to do them, and that he does them well.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
A boy becomes a man when a man is needed
~ John Steinbeck
A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old because there was no need for a man.
~ John Steinbeck
A man is no better than he has to be.
~ John Wayne