Quotes About Accountability

when we're wrong, they certainly expect us to own up to it.

How well you own up to your mistakes makes a bigger impression than how you revel in your successes.

We have all read the golden rule and the Sermon on the Mount. Our trouble is not ignorance, but inaction.

What I would say to people right now is that you can't count on anything that you don't do yourself," Jim said. "If your hand don't put it there, and you don't provide for your own family yourself, by your own intelligence and by your own means, you can't count on anybody else to do it for you.

The so-called "right to privacy" of which so much is made in contemporary life is in very large measure merely a way of avoiding scrutiny in our wrongdoing.

So the call to "give an account" is, first, not a call to beat unwilling people into intellectual submission, but to be the servant of those in need, often indeed the servant of those who are in the grip of their own intellectual self-righteousness and pride, usually reinforced by their social surroundings.

good unless others are responsible.

What is the point of standing up for rights in a world where few stand up for their responsibilities? Your rights will do you little good unless others are responsible

Reason functions as a basis of responsibility before God precisely because of its ability to serve in the instigation, nurture, and correction of faith. Because of this ability, we are responsible before God if we do not abide according to its results. To disparage the role of reason in the production and sustenance of faith is to contradict the plain intent of the scriptures, according to which reason provides adequate grounds to support a right worship of God.

You cannot choose conditions and reject the consequences. Even a "bill of rights" cannot change that.

Why is there no governmental oversight of how public money is spent by these organizations and churches? Probably because there is an assumption that if it is religious, it must be good.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who will guard the guards?

Who will guard the guards ? If we're the guards of society, then who will watch us and make sure that we're not dangerous?

The price of greatness...is responsibility - Winston Churchill

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Siapa yang akan mengawasi sang pengawas?

But there comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense Ã¢â'¬Â¦ a

And as we do, may we never forget the wisdom of Churchill, who warned us: 'The price of greatness…is responsibility.'

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Kto bude strážiÃ…Â¥ strážcov?

The price of greatness…is responsibility.'

being "soft" on misconduct was the best way to guarantee increasing misconduct.

El miedo a ser juzgado por una deidad omnisciente ayuda a fomentar la buena conducta".

Quis custodier ipsos custodes?

The price of greatness…is responsibility.' " The words resonated for Langdon, who often feared the human race would not be responsible enough to wield the intoxicating tools it was now inventing.

i don't get it, who will guard the guards ?? -Yeah if we are the guards of society, then who will watch us and make sure that we're not dangerous ?