Quotes About Accountability

I will suddenly remember this thing I did, and think to myself, Was it really necessary?

Companies are run by computers. Profit margins are sliced thin. And no manager dare raise his eyes from his accounts long enough to learn the names of his staff. It's the price we pay for progress.

Doesn't he know that all the world's governments tell lies all day every day, and show no sign of contrition even when they are caught out in such untruths?

Because assigning blame assigns responsibility. So I blame myself and give myself the responsibility to make it right.

We should make politicians dress like race car drivers -- when they get money, make them wear the company logos on their suit.

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

I exist, I am, I am here, I am becoming, I make my own life and no one else makes it for me. I must face my own shortcomings, mistakes, transgressions. No one can suffer my non-being as I do, but tomorrow is another day, and I must decide to leave my bed and live again. And if I fail, I don't have the comfort of blaming you or life or God.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it." - Vronksy {Anna Karenina}

It's too easy to criticize a man when he's out of favour, and to make him shoulder the blame for everybody else's mistakes.

I will see every one of you in detention, first thing after school on Friday

Nobody can cause another man evil unless the second party involved allows him to.

because blaming our behavior on forces outside ourselves is a way of avoiding responsibility.

The things we do pile up on us, weigh us down. Or hold us in place, at very least.

The world was filled with clever killers who mistakenly believed that they'd never be caught. This was not true. Karma had everyone's address

Janey had accepted the responsibilities of adulthood, and people like that didn't run off on a moment's notice.

Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.

Merely being part of the United States, without regard to our own acts and ideas, does not make us moral or immoral beings. History is more complicated than that.

We cannot erase what we have done, and to alter our future behavior may not be in our interest. To change our attitude is easier.

Isn't the media supposed to keep government responsible?

I'm so tired of asking Andrew to do things around the house. No one has to ask me. You know why? Because I just get on with it.

Badly done, Emma!

It is not what we think or feel that makes us who we are. It is what we do. Or fail to do...

A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.