Quotes About Accountability

Because Tavis had been the one to take the lion's share of the heat when it turned out that Blue Jays' spectators in the stands

college students and alcoholics/addicts are the worst: they deep-down believe they're exempt from the laws of physics and statistics that ironly govern everybody else.

a president views, interviews, and reviews everything he presides over, if he's doing his job in the correct manner.

If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his own relations...

Para un hombre que ha cometido una falta no conozco censor más implacable que sus propios parientes.

And do not let squeamish Tories cry out about disloyalty; if the crown does wrong, the crown must be corrected by the nation, out of respect, of course, for the crown.

The accounts that history presents have to be paid.

I have reached the conclusion he lacks that moral authority, and sadly, by extension, I must include in that now those who appointed him to his post. They are not lawful orders, and most certainly they are not moral orders.

You are no longer in the halls of the White House or wherever you served, whomever you were assigned to. This is not some public relations job where you bullshit a stupid press corps and when the questioning gets too tough, you say time is up.

We did have a lot to do with it. We had all grown so fat, so complacent, and we always let someone else worry about such things, even though we knew that those we allowed to be in charge were far too often incompetent—or worse, self-serving and blind in their arrogance.

The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?

La culpa, no está en nuestras estrellas, sino en nosotros mismos, que consentimos en ser inferiores.

Alas, the frailty is to blame, not we For such as we are made of, such we be

Wrong hath but wrong, and blame the due of blame.

Let her hang me: he that is well hanged in this world needs to fear no colours.

I may be negligent, foolish, and fearful; In every one of these no man is free...

We shall be call'd purgers, not murderers.

Omittance is no quittance.

You'll rue the time That clogs me with this answer.

And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse, As patches set upon a little breach Discredit more in hiding of the fault Than did the fault before it was so patch'd.

Why should the private pleasure of some one Become the public plague of many moe? Let sin, alone committed, light alone Upon his head that hath transgressed so; Let guiltless souls be freed from guilty woe: For one's offence why should so many fall, To plague a private sin in general?

Sit down: thou art no flatterer: I thank thee for it; and heaven forbid That kings should let their ears hear their faults hid!

Procurar culpados faz com que as pessoas se embaralhem com o problema.

a man's word isn't any good, he's no good himself.