Quotes About Accountability

It's so much easier to point a finger than to take responsibility yourself, isn't it? Maybe it isn't so simple as this person's fault or that one. Maybe we make up the dance together, as we go along, and no one knows what the result will be.

Dê uma boa olhada nas suas escolhas antes de culpar metade do mundo pelos seus erros.

It is what you haven't done that will torment you

People who don't want to do something that they know they should do have marvelously inventive abilities to ignore what they know. They

With creation went responsibility and he was not equipped to assume more than the moral responsibility for the wrong that he had done, and moral responsibility, unless it might be coupled with the ability to bring about some mitigation, was an entirely useless thing.

You leave marks on people, Gentle. That's a responsibility you can't just shrug off.

for a democracy to flourish, it must have an incorruptible bureaucracy.

While we avoid taking credit for success, women leap at the opportunity to take responsibility for failure. Men tend to externalize the reasons for their failure, putting it off on something or someone else. Not so women, who absorb blame as if they were born to be societys doormats. (Some women like to speak of their willingness to take blame as if it were a form of altruism. It isn't. Women take the blame because they find it scary to confront those who are actually culpable of wrongdoing.)

Look at your failed life, Joffrey: It is standing right in front of you

He ate every miserable spoonful and ever since it struck him that adults are always trying to buy off children to make them forget their bad actions.

Take it out on each other if you cannot take it out on the ones who deserve it.

Elwood said, It's against the law. State law, but also Elwood's. If everyone looked the other way, then everybody was in on it. If he looked the other way, he was as implicated as the rest. That's how he saw it, how he'd always seen things.

If you believed in the holy circulation of envelopes, everything that went down happened because a man took an envelope and didn't do his job. An envelope is an envelope. Disrespect the order and the whole system breaks down.

Take it out on each other if you cannot take it out on the ones who deserve

If everyone looked the other way, then everybody was in on it. If he looked the other way, he was as implicated as the rest.

He could help put a man on the Moon, but he couldn't count the body bags. Send a satellite spinning, but he couldn't figure out how many crosses to go into the ground.

It's as if there is a conspiracy of silence among men — a brotherhood — to let each other off the hook.

Too many guilty people get off scot-free if they have money or influence.

No one has the right to do wrong, even if wrong has been done to them.

It is we ourselves who must answer the questions that life asks of us, and to those questions we can respond only by being responsible for our existence.

being human is nothing other than being conscious and being responsible!

T]he full gravity of the responsibility that every man bears throughout every moment of his life: the responsibility for what he will make of the next hour, for how he will shape the next day.

It is we ourselves who must answer the questions that life asks of us, and to these questions we can respond only by being responsible for our existence.

To escape into the mass is to disburden oneself of individual responsibility. As soon as someone acts as if her were a mere part of the whole, and as if only this whole counts, he can enjoy the sensation of throwing off some of the burden of his responsibility. This tendency to flee from responsibility is the motif of all collectivism. True community is in essence the community of of responsible persons; mere mass is the sum of depersonalized entities.