Quotes About Accountability

I'd rather talk to people who do things than complain about other people who do things. I say they're idiots.

Why would I need someone to make sure I do my job correctly?" answered the Japanese worker. "That's my job.

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

the best way to be allowed to do something was to do it with authority and put the onus on someone to stop you.

The guilt of a government is the crime of a whole country;

A government or an administration, who means and acts honestly, has nothing to fear, and consequently has nothing to conceal;

If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected: if not, they will be despised; and with regard to those to whom no power is delegated, but who assume it, the rational world can know nothing of them.

whoever the men be to whom the government of any country is entrusted, they ought to be the best and wisest that can be found, and if they are not so, they are not fit for the station.

I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. don't take counsel of your fears.

Journalists cannot serve two masters. To the extent that they take on the task of suppressing information or biting their tongue for the sake of some political agenda, they are betraying the trust of the public and corrupting their own profession.

Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.

With the Docking System, you tell the kids, "I have good news and bad news. The good news is that if you forget a chore, I'll do it for you. The bad news is that you're going to pay me for helping you out." Then tell them the exact amount they will have to pay you.

Self-examination [means] setting up a court in [your] conscience and keeping a register there that by strict scrutiny a man may know how things stand between God and his own soul.

It is in this sense that responsibility is liberty; the more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.

Don't put your life in someone's hands They bound to steal it away Don't hide your mistakes 'Cause they'll find you, burn you

Nos enseñan a manipular y a engañar para obtener lo que queremos y, a no ser que sea descubierta, vivimos ocultando nuestra deshonestidad. El gran número de políticos así como de altos cargos de la administración que tienen que afrontar demandas judiciales ilustra esto que estamos diciendo.

Problems exist in the minds of individuals. You have to solve your own problems, no matter what kind of society you live in—socialist, communist or capitalist. You must check your own mind. Your problem is not society's problem, not my problem. You are responsible for your own problems just as you're responsible for your own liberation or enlightenment.

When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it.

One must always be aware, to notice—even though the cost of noticing is to become responsible.

The burden isn't on me to explain it, Rich. The burden's on y'all to fix it. Good luck.

I know you twist history to make things easier for you, but I've never made you do anything. Do you ever think about your role in all of this?

And then, for the first time ever, Shane ignored what he desperately wanted and made his first truly responsible decision.