Quotes About Accountability

If someone threatens to kill you for speaking up about something they've done, they must be feeling their guilt. So maybe that's how you know you're on the right track.

And I end by challenging people to ask themselves whether we can continue to allow the government, subject as it is to every imaginable form of inefficiency and corruption, to have such power to kill.

They want to see him made accountable for his actions. They want to see him pay for what he did. So do I. In an ideal world, there would be no need for retribution. But in real societies, punishing the guilty is as integral to the function of law as exoneration the innocent and preventing crime.

is that you are responsible for what you think because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice.

It's become the incredible shrinking presidency in terms of access, and in my opinion, we are all being shortchanged.

I'm definitely a bit of Peter Pan, reluctant to grow up....part of me would prefer not to have any responsibility whatsoever.

Lessons in Leadership: My Rules to Live By© • Be true to yourself • Do the right thing • Remember that actions speak louder than words • Put first things first • Just do it

abból a bölcs felismerésb?l indulva ki, hogy minden hitbeli dolog az egyén személyes ügye, és mindenki maga viseli a felel?sséget metafizikai meggy?z?déséért.

Låt inte någon välja ut dina syndabockar. Det är din sak. Om den skulle sammanfalla med någon annans syndabock, dussintals eller fler, byt bock. Den kan inte vara din.

A man generally lives up to what is expected of him.

Some people grow under responsibility; others swell.

He was in way over his head... We're held accountable for our stupidity & moral ignorance... Arrogant condescension...suffering from self-hatred which comes along with a terrible nostalgia for the way we imagine things were, the nostalgia of defeat...breeds tyrants... He can hold his liquor, I'll give him that. It's a generational skill,...indicative of a pathology.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

Political parties serve to keep each other in check, one keenly watching the other.

Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.

The time will come when Winter will ask you what you were doing all Summer.

Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.

You ought to live in such a way that you would be perfectly happy to have everything that you do known. And if you don't do that, maybe you'd better change a little bit.

What have you done?

Your religion...serves you only for an excuse for your faults, but is no incentive to your virtue.

To whom nothing is given, of him can nothing be required.

It is inevitable that any one who can borrow freely to cover errors of management will borrow rather than correct the errors.

He began work on the second volume on 3 April 1753, and seemed newly energized. 'O God who hast hitherto supported me,' he could write in his diary, 'enable me to proceed in this labour & in the Whole task of my present state', so that 'when I shall render up at the last day an account of the talent committed to me I may receive pardon for the sake of Jesus Christ'.14

People think responsibility is hard to bear. It's not. I think that sometimes it is the absence of responsibility that is harder to bear. You have a great feeling of impotence.