Quotes About Accountability

Fine thoughts are wealth, for the right use of which Men are and ought to be accountable,-- If not to Thee, to those they influence.

A man whose every exertion is bent upon showing up the flaws in his wife's character must be at least partially responsible for some of them.

The first view is "bad apple." Bad apple is excusable. It's sort of like, something went bad with this man. But the second option is police corruption, so it's a problem with the department.

Saying 'I could have done more,' Zin, is what marks a man as a man and not a God.

We see young men who owe us a new world, so readily and lavishly they promise, but they never acquit the debt; they die young anddodge the account: or if they live, they lose themselves in the crowd.

President Trump is a man of his word.

You can't depend on the man who made the mess to clean it up.

Taking responsibility takes all the joy out of life, and drains a man to dust.

See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly.

A man who is not accountable to anyone is a danger to himself

Man is a responsible moral agent, though he is also divinely controlled; man is divinely controlled, though he is also a responsible moral agent.

We cannot elect men to office who are afraid of premature evacuation.

[Charles de Gaulle] has been abysmally careless, like a man running a bus over mountains, who forgot to equip it with good brakes.

Where princes are concerned, a man who is able to do good is as dangerous and almost as criminal as a man who intends to do evil.

We do not wish to say only that a man is responsible for his own individuality, but that he is responsible for that of all men.

A man should live his life a certain way not because of some divine authority, but because of a personal moral obligation to himself and others.

A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them; but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.

Public business must always be done by somebody. It will be done by somebody or other. If wise man decline, others will not; if honest man refuse it, others will not.

Don't believe that jazz about there's nothing you can do, "turn on and drop out, man" - because you've got to turn on and drop in, or they're going to drop all over you.

Judgement is given to men that they may use it. Because it may be used erroneously, are men to be told that they ought not to use it at all?

A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

Mom raised us to believe that every lie puts something out there in the world that's inevitably going to come back and bite you in the petunia.

Have you ever had a single moment's thought about my responsibilities?

My mom was never afraid to say, 'I'm sorry. I screwed up.' I feel like that's an important lesson.