Quotes About Accountability

As More says, it hardly makes a man a hero, to agree to stand and burn once he is chained to a stake. I have written books and I cannot unwrite them. I cannot unbelieve what I believe. I cannot unlive my life.

Statements, indictments, bills are circulated, shuffled between judges, prosecutors, the Attorney General, the Lord Chancellor's office; each step in the process clear, logical, and designed to create corpses by due process of law.

Some debts should never be tallied, he says. "I myself, I know what is owed me, but by God I know what I owe.

Men pay for crimes, but not necessarily their own.

you cannot tell people just part of the tale and then stop, or just tell them the parts you choose.

At the front, people die for their mistakes. Why should politicians be more gently treated? They made the war. They deserve a dozen deaths, each of them. What can we try them for, except for treason, and how can you punish treason, except by death?

Be reasonable, my lord. Once you.ve done it, you'll want to do it all the time. For about three years. That's the way it goes. And your father has other work in mind for you.

Is a man a victim, who walks onto a knife? Are you innocent, if you set up the damage for yourself?

It seems there is no mercy in this world, but a kind of haphazard justice: men pay for crimes, but not necessarily their own.

It shows how unaccountable men are, what they harbour in their souls: which by no means shows on their faces.

There were no rules, only consequences.

There were not rules, only consequences

If you don't know why you're apologizing, your apology probably sucks.

nothing I could do to you will be as terrible as what you'll do to yourself.

The more they get away with, the more they believe they're entitled to have.

You were mad at me for lying to you. Don't lie to us now.

We're not sorting sand because of Call. We're sorting sand because of me. - Tamara

I have done the thing, and now I must live with what I have done. I have lied and I have betrayed and I have triumphed. If only there was someone to congratulate me.

Let's talk about your behavior tonight," says Madoc, leaning forward. "Let's talk about your behavior tonight," I return

It's ridiculous the way everyone acts like killing a king is going to make someone better at being one," Vivi says. "Imagine if, in the mortal world, a lawyer passed the bar by killing another lawyer.

may be cruel, a monster, and a murderer, but I do not shirk my responsibilities.

I keep my head down, as I probably should have done in the first place. And if I curse Cardan, then I have to curse myself, too, for being the fool who walked right into the trap he set for me.

in time-out. That's how you're acting—like five-year-olds. It's time you realized that you are sixteen and way too old for this nonsense. And you

Actions have consequences...first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions.