Quotes About Accountability

If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.

when a government pretends that it is the highest judge of its own actions, the result is not freedom as Jefferson says, but chaos and oppression.

Now she understood that someone had to end the council by declaring specifically what had been decided and what must happen next. Without absolute clarity, people would go off and dither, especially if they had doubts about the decision.

When you don't understand the consequences of your acts, how can you be blamed for them? ... You don't take the blame, he answered. But you still take responsibility. For healing the wounds you caused.

They came for gossip, and he gives them responsibility.

Pero la naturaleza de los subordinados era usar el poder de manera intrépida, ya que la culpa siempre podía achacarse tanto a los de abajo como a los de arriba.

when everybody believes that everybody's actions are the result of free choice, and takes and gives responsibility accordingly, the result is civilization.

Good, that's settled then,' said Danny. 'Since I'm the idiot who set this all in motion by playing around with the rope-climb in a high school gym, I apologize right now for everything that goes wrong with this. With any luck, I'm the only one who gets zapped in the outself, and everything else goes on like normal for the rest of you. But if terrible things happen, please remember that I meant well, and that I did my best. That is what I promise you

And I began to suspect that the ultimate sacrifice isn't death after all; the ultimate sacrifice is willingly bearing the fullest penalty for your own actions.

Don't you? said Father. To spare the rod is to spoil the child---God has told us how to make our children pure from the moment they achieve accountability until they have mastered their own discipline. I strike my son's body to teach his spirit to embrace the pure love of Christ. You will teach him to hate his enemies, so that it no longer matters whether his body is living or dead, for his soul will be polluted and God will spit him out of his mouth.

I'll tell you something. If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.

was good enough when good men held the office, but always when you create an office that a man can lay hands on, an evil man will someday lay hands on it.

Blamelessness does not relieve us of responsibility

When you don't understand the consequences for your acts, how can you be blamed for them?

I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.

I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.

When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.

Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. The only pity was one had to pay so often for a single fault. One had to pay over and over again, indeed. In her dealings with man, Destiny never closed her accounts.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has a right to blame us.

Duty is what one expects from others.

One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders. Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it.

Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean.

The demands that good people make are upon themselves; Those that bad people make are upon others.

If you expect great things of yourself and demand little of others, you'll keep resentment far away.