Quotes About Accountability

A man's life is always dealing with permanence, that is the most dangerous kind of irresponsibility is to think of your doings as temporary.

We all sin, of course, but the unwillingness to take any responsibility for our sins implies a more deeply damaged spirit.

If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

All political power is a trust.

Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.

There are two freedoms — the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Every duty that is bidden to wait comes back with seven fresh duties at its back.

Anybody who accepts mediocrity - in school, on the job, in life - is a person who compromises, and when the leader compromises, the whole organization compromises.

I don't really care what a public figure thinks. I care about what he does. Let God probe his inner heart.

Third and most important: I don't really care what a public figure thinks. I care about what he does. Let God probe his inner heart. Tell me about his outer acts.

When you join the most monstrous of killing organizations, when you carry its seal, you become responsible for its crimes.

I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong.

Guilt is the uncomfortable or painful feeling that results from doing something that violates or breaks a personal standard or value, or from hurting another person, or even from breaking an agreement or a law. Guilt thus concerns our behavior, feeling bad about what we have done, or about what we didn't do that we were supposed to have done.

Man is either Viceroy or else he is an animal that claims special rights by virtue of its cunning and the devouring efficiency of teeth sharpened by technological instruments... But if he is Viceroy, then all decay and trouble in the created world that surrounds him is in some measure to be laid to his account

Look out!! Ha! Now you've done it! Now you've broken a lamp, and you've got no one to blame it on but yourself!" "Maybe I could blame it on society!

You sold out! We elected you, and you sold out! The next time we have an election, I think everyone should vote for himself. Or we might just as well vote for Charlie Brown! Yes, next year we may even say, 'You're elected, Charlie Brown!

There's our excuse... we'll blame everything on the round-headed kid!

It's hard to tell everybody to go home if nobody shows up.

Nations, like individuals, cannot become desperate gamblers with impunity. Punishment is sure to overtake them sooner or later.

These children that come at you with knives--they are your children. You taught them. I didn't teach them. I just tried to help them stand up.

But words are like bullets. Once they exit the barrel, it's impossible to bring them back.

By your words you'll be acquitted, and by your words you'll be condemned.

If someone is bent on hurting herself, she'll find a way to do it. She was a grown woman; sooner or later, she was responsible for herself.

It is tempting to believe that the job of fixing cities is the untouchable terrain of distant authorities whom the state has deemed responsible. It is a terrible mistake to give in to this temptation.