Quotes About Accountability

Wir haben nicht bloß unser Land, wir haben unsere Welt verloren - und damit die Möglichkeit, an die Unschlud jener Welt zu glauben, die wir geschaffen haben, einer Welt, der wir nicht entkommen können, für die wir nur Verantwortung übernehmen können und deren Wiederherstellung wir versuchen müssen.

Name names and your writing will stick with readers.

It's always me, isn't it? I'm not really a very nice person, but for some reason it's always me that they come to with their problems.

Or perhaps Anderson himself, overcome with shame, will perform a public mea culpa and set me free in person. Of

responsibility, had been shifted from the president's weakening shoulders. It was now up

toss a weighted paper bag out.

didn't install them promptly then there's nothing we can do.

publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil

Too frightened to set a precedent, but quite happy to pass the buck.

But passively waiting for your child to outgrow his defiant behavior will just make the problem worse and not solve it. It's our job as parents to help our children learn appropriate behavior, not to enable poor behavior by making excuses for it.

We need more government, but also a much more competent and honest government. Economic reform and political reform must go hand in hand. Without the one there cannot be the other. The

This is an age of impunity, a time when the rich and powerful get away with their misdeeds, and are even lauded for them in some quarters.

There's a reason narcissists don't learn from mistakes and that's because they never get past the first step which is admitting that they made one. It's always an assistant's fault, an adviser's fault, a lawyer's fault. Ask them to account for a mistake any other way and they'll say, 'what mistake?

If doctors practiced medicine the way many companies practice management, there would be far more sick and dead patients, and many more doctors would be in jail.

lying produces few to no severe sanctions, lying increases in frequency.

The internet is just one big venue for anyone to say anything to anybody—without personal consequences.

You are responsible for what you say and do. You are not responsible for whether or not people freak out about it.

Dang it, Chance. You been here one day and you killed a man and split another one's skull open. I got enough to do without you adding more work. Chance kept his tone level. He drew on me. Why were you over in the Badlands in the first place? You know why. Bowie glared, then lowered his voice. Think you can get through a day without killing someone? Don't know. It's early yet.

Probably she's dead already. But you couldn't run forever. They had told her that in rehab, too. Eventually you had to stop running, and even the worst failures, the true fuckups and wastes of space, had to try to fix what they had broken. You had to turn and see what you had done.

that if you use people your entire life, if you manipulate them and take from them, and throw them away when you don't need them anymore, then yes, there are consequences.

Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.

if need arises for holding converse with men, do not shun having witnesses, and let your conversation be marked with such confidence that the entry of a third person shall neither startle you nor make you blush.

That's Harris all over—so ready to take the burden of everything himself, and put it on the backs of other people.

But we are so blind to our own shortcomings, so wide awake to those of others. Everything that happens to us is always the other person's fault.