Quotes About Accountability

To men who only aim at escaping felony, nothing short of the prisoner's dock is disgrace.

You kill men for the wrongs they have done, not the wrongs that they may do someday.

...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword." "...a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.

In seventeen of His thirty-seven parables, Jesus dealt with property and man's responsibility for using it wisely.

When a man does all he can, though it succeeds not well, blame not him that did it.

It is harsh enough for each man to bear his own wound. But he who leads bears the wounds of all who follow him.

Anyone who critically analyzes a business learns this: that the success or failure of an enterprise depends usually upon one man.

I cannot say and no man could say that no more will be asked of us.

No body of men can be said to authorize a man to act as their agent, to the injury of a third person.

Well, we are men. Let's start acting like it.

[The man] thinks he's being condemned because of his color but actually he's being condemned because of his deeds, his conscious behavior.

If any man has done wrong, the harm is his own. But perhaps he has not done wrong.

Hen nights should be banned. You're honour-bound to behave atrociously, then feel terribly ashamed afterwards. (This Charming Man)

When some men discharge an obligation, you can hear the report for miles around.

Make sure to send a lazy man the angel of death.

To lead means to direct and to exact, and no man dares do either - he might be unpopular. What authority we are given now is a trinity: the grin, the generality, and God (the Word).

Man's will creates the things that paralyze his brain and brutalize his heart.

Anywhere in the world if you see a president holding his chair tightly, that man is either a thief or a tyrant, and even worse than this, he is both!

If you want to call a man to account, don't do it when he is weak; call him to account when he is strong! Cowards choose the first way and the valiant choose the second way.

Good men prefer to be accountable.

We do not correct the man we hang; we correct others by him.

An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.

I fought for the values of responsibility, and I'm not a man who does not accept his responsibilities.

Men do monstrous things but if you call a man a monster you have absolved yourself of blame. You don't have to think that you might ever do these things. I don't think that's true