Quotes About Accountability

This attitude is basic human nature. We'd rather look outward and blame others for ills that befall us than point the finger at ourselves.

Men like that — when they know they won't be found out — they will do anything.

What is perfect, anyway? The absence of perfection and the existence of human nature in place of something we want to do or we don't want to do, is an excuse, not an exoneration.

Why do people, when they are wrong, twist the conversation around and place the blame on someone else?

Freedom without responsibility? What freedom is that? None at all.

Accuse not Nature she hath done her part Do thou but thine!

Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

I gave you life. You're wasting it.

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?

A society needs to know when to forgive, but it also needs to know when to punish.

I believe that when Paul plants and Apollos waters, God gives the increase; and I have no patience with those who throw the blame on God when it belongs to themselves.

To oppose corruption in government is the highest obligation of patriotism.

Blind faith in bad leaders is not patriotism.

Public office is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Our country ... when right, to be kept right. When wrong, to be put right.

Patriotism does not mean giving blind loyalty and a blank check to George W. Bush.

To be a good patriot, a man must consider his countrymen as God's creatures, and himself as accountable for his acting towards them.

Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It's self-defense. It's patriotism.

When you think everything is someone else's fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself, you will learn both peace and joy.

Democracies die behind closed doors.

Freedom of expression comes with responsibilities, especially when it comes with serious implications for peace.