Quotes About Accountability

It may take a generation to achieve democracy. But our generation must accomplish this and not pass the buck to the next.

My own brand will stand or fall because of me. Dior won't fall if I fall. It will also still stand if I'm not there. I'm coming in there, and it's like a - I don't know the English word - like a passage.

What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise.

Congress should live by the same laws it passes on to the rest of the nation.

Everybody's always going to have some self-interest. When it passes a certain point, that's when it become corruption.

In Washington, the accepted method for passing along information about how the government fails to meet real-world needs is to leak it.

I find it very frustrating how much passing the buck there is in the criminal justice system when it comes to taking responsibility for outcomes.

I don't know if somehow success has made me conservative. With every passing year and with every success, I get more aware of the responsibility on my shoulders.

The Reformation meant more than just a change in humanity's relationship with God. By eliminating the confessional, it warned people that henceforth they would have to walk on their own two feet and would have to take responsibility for the consequences of their own decisions.

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.

Politics is a matter of leading other people. Admittedly not where they want to go, but where they ought to go.

FBI investigations alone will never take corruption out of politics. They take too much effort, and they attack the problem serially, one target at a time.

The assumption is that we need to protect politicians from outside influences. But how about protecting ourselves from the politicians?

And once I realized that code I write never fucking goes away and I'm going to be a maintainer for life. I get comments about blog posts that are almost 10 years old. "Hey, I found this code. I found a bug," and I'm suddenly maintaining code.

In a democracy, citizens pass judgment on their government, and if they are kept in the dark about what their government is doing, they cannot be in a position to make well-grounded decisions.

People may hope that the meat they buy came from an animal who died without pain, but they do not really want to know about it. Yet those who, by their purchases, require animals to be killed do not deserve to be shielded from this or any other aspect of the production of the meat they buy.

Forgetting the injustices and seeming injustices which one suffered from one's parents during childhood and youth must be the major part of any maturing process. I kept repeating this to myself, as though it were a lesson I would at some future time be accountable for. A certain oblivion was what we must undergo in order to become adults and live peacefully with ourselves.

Man has responsibility, not power.

It is our responsibilities not ourselves that we should take seriously.

I have a warrant for your arrest on a matter a few years back

Property damage is so much easier to live with than murder.

T]hey don't care about realpolitik or the big picture. They only care about monkey-wrenching and whistle blowing.

The gut was not a long-range organ. Its grasp of culpability degraded exponentially with distance; there

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