Quotes About Accountability

Flick beat all but one of the slave labor and plunder charges, because three prominent U.S. judges concluded that the director and owner of a corporation should not be held accountable for slavery and looting by his companies, unless the prosecution could prove that he personally ordered each particular crime to be carried out.

The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.

That's the thing about guilt," his father said. "It always seems like there's enough to go around. The only ones who don't take a share are the ones who are actually guilty.

And she liked you. When she and I broke up, it had nothing to do with you." He and Madeline had split because he hadn't been ready for anything serious. When she started hinting otherwise, he'd panicked and broken things off. He wasn't proud of how he'd behaved, but he'd have been a bigger jerk if he'd led her

Meski aku masih seorang pemuda, aku tidak lagi menjadi seorang penerima. Aku sekarang sudah menjadi seorang pemimpin. Aku memiliki pengikut. Aku memiliki nama baik.

Amy, listen to me. What I do. The choices I make. They're mine. Only mine. The consequences of those decisions—mine. "Mine," he repeated when she sighed heavily. "No one else's." Silence. Only the warm wetness of her tears dampening his shirt. It broke his heart.

If we stick together as an American people we can bring down the war criminals that are running our country right now.

when you figure out where you're messing up and you hate that behavior bad enough, that's where all the good parts of you begin.

God doesn't create suffering Claire, we do. We make the world and then we break it.

Accountability is not about blame, it's not about being wrong, it is about owning the choices you've made, or are making, that create the results you have in your life. And you do create everything in your life.

Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business.

The mistake a lot of politicians make is forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Hegel argued that death is used as a threat to keep citizens in line. The minute you stop feating death you are no longer controlled by governments and councils. In a sense you are no longer accountable to life.

Justification for infidelity and dishonesty in all their manifestations lies in the marginal cost economics of "just this once.

But I did it! That's the thing—I did it! What will my father say when he hears I murdered a man? Lorna, I see what I did. I murdered myself, too! I've been running around in circles. Now I'm smashed!

It is a fool who believes politicians will end the problems and poverty they have created in the first place. 

Liars are the acid that eats at the foundations of public life and democracy.

How you live your life is a question of choices. You must do your best to make the right ones and make sure you fix it when you don't.

Don't be shy in saying "sorry" when you believe you did something wrong. But don't deliver the word when you don't mean saying it.

Everyone wants to be a good example to everybody. If you can't be one, at least try not to be a disgrace to humanity.

We do not put value on the words that we speak if we cannot perform the words that we unleash.

I just think it is important that you realize, that you're the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you're libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

We all have it comin', kid

Nothing wrong with shooting...as long as the right people get shot.