Quotes About Accountability

Love responsibility. Say: It is my duty, and mine alone, to save the earth. If it is not saved, then I alone am to blame.

Food didn't kill people, for God's sake, people killed people. With their harping, and criticizing, and careful living.

This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.

First time, shame on you," she began, her husky tone serious. "Second time, shame on me.

We feel free to criticize otherwise-honest police officers who protect crooked cops because of their Blue Code. But we have our White Code. It allows some doctors to get away with clinical shoddiness and bad medicine, and I say to hell with it.

If it's wrong when they do it, it's wrong when we do it.

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

Passivity may be the easy course, but it is hardly the honorable one.

Unfortunately, you can't vote the rascals out, because you never voted them in, in the first place

Anarchists try to identify power structures. They urge those exercising power to justify themselves. This justification does not succeed most of the time.

power that isn't really justified by the will of the governed should be dismantled.

authority, unless justified, is inherently illegitimate and that the burden of proof is on those in authority. If this burden can't be met, the authority in question should be dismantled.

It's not the generals, it's the civilians who authorise and organise the worst war crimes.

So we march on, following our leaders, toward an "Armageddon of our own making.

Victors do not investigate their own crimes, so that little is known about them...

The powerful are self-immunized from even inquiry, let alone punishment for their crimes.

The rise of multinational corporations that know neither patriotism nor morality but only self-interest, has made accountability almost non-existent. At virtually every level, I discern a demand by business for docile government and unrestrained corporate individualism. Where industry once yearned for subservient unions, it now wants no unions at all.

If people cannot rise to the level of applying to ourselves the same standards we apply to others they have no right to talk about right and wrong.

Candor is entirely in order: only the most devilish anti-American, after all, could question our right to act as suits our fancy. If, say, we choose to invade some defenseless country to capture one of our agents who no longer follows orders, and then try him for crimes committed while on our payroll, who could question the majesty of our system of justice? True, the UN did, but our veto took care of that childish tantrum.

NC: You're right, but I think it tells you something very interesting about Western culture. When they went to the concentration camps and were appalled, they did not say, "Let's save the survivors"; they said, "Let someone else pay for saving the survivors." IP: Exactly.

Up to this point your life has pretty much sucked. You're not responsible for that. But you are responsible for what happens from here on.

You're excuses are so lame they're limping...

It's right he's paying you, as you were hurt on his job, and he can well afford it. Doing so shows his character, just as fretting over it shows yours.

your excuses are so lame they're limping