Quotes About Accountability

A sloppy half-Windsor is the first symptom of serial indolence' she replied in the patronizing voice that Yellows reserved for Rule-breakers, 'and ignoring the infraction gives the impression that it is acceptable to be inappropriately attired. The next day it might be badly polished shoes, then uncouth language, showing off and impoliteness. Before one knows it, the rot of disharmony would start to dismantle everything that we know and cherish.

If we didn't execute bankers and rogue traders found guilty of financial mischief, it might give them the clear signal that it's actually okay, and then where would we be?

Although Outlander authors kill, maim, disfigure and eviscerate bookpeople on a regular basis, no author has ever been held to account, although lawyers are working on a test case to deal with serial offenders. The mechanism for transfictional jurisdiction has yet to be finalized, but when it is, some authors may have cause to regret their worst excesses.

los hombres no piden perdón: hacen lo que hacen y dicen lo que dicen, y luego se aguantan.

Vatana gelince, o ÅŸeydir, her ÅŸeydir, o ne olduÄŸu bilinmeyen ÅŸeydir ya da basitçe söylemek gerekirse, rezillik, dalaverecilik yapman?n mazeretidir.

Maturation is fundamentally the process of learning to discipline one's self and to carry personal responsibility.

That was the thing about impulsiveness. It contained the seeds of its own retribution.

One can imagine a high-definition democracy, in which they would show the human rights chart every day, in real time on the screens, in the way they do now for the weather. They would show the observance and violation of those rights over the whole planet, possibly with immediate penalties (which would obviously produce a constant worsening of the situation).

Ma è così sicuro che la corruzione debba essere sradicata?

There are only a few things worse than having to face up to the fact that the predicaments one finds oneself in are usually the results of one's own foolish actions.

Let the numberless legion of my fellow men gather round me and hear my confessions. Let them groan at my depravities, and blush for my misdeeds. But let each one of them reveal his heart at the foot of Thy throne with equal sincerity, and may any man who dares, say, "I was a better man that he.

A people who never misused the powers of government would never misuse independence, and a people which always governed itself well would not need to be governed.

La carencia misma de responsabilidad le producía sentimientos contradictorios: una sensación inusitada de libertad al mismo tiempo que una frustración inexplicable.

La función del escritor consiste en obrar de modo que nadie pueda ignorar el mundo y que nadie pueda ante el mundo decirse inocente

Es kommt nicht darauf an, was man aus uns gemacht hat, sondern darauf, was wir aus dem machen, was man aus uns gemacht hat.

El compromiso es un acto, no una palabra

Why is it that human beings are allowed to grow up without the necessary apparatus to make sound ethical decisions?

De ce sunt oare oamenii lasati s? creasc? f?r? a avea aparatura necesar? pentru a lua deciziile morale cele mai s?n?toase?

I may not spare you, I said. For I would rather spare all those who would come into contact with you, were you to be left alive.

he ahí las pruebas funestas de que la mayor parte de nuestros males son obra nuestra

las fatigas y el agotamiento espiritual, los pesares y contrariedades que se sienten en todas las situaciones, los cuales corroen perpetuamente el alma: he ahí las pruebas funestas de que la mayor parte de nuestros males son obra nuestra

I may be asked whether I am a prince or a legislator that I should be writing about politics. I answer no: and indeed that is my reason for doing so. If I were a prince or a legislator I should not waste my time saying what ought to be done; I should do it or keep silent.

Your beginning, he said to me, is the rule of what will be required of you: seek to behave so as to do more afterwards, but watch out never to do less.

Hükümdar ya da yasac? olsayd?m, ne demek gerektiÄŸini söyleyip vaktimi boÅŸuna harcamaz, ya yapaca??m? yapar ya da susard?m.