Quotes About Accountability

Æthelwold took it upon himself to tour them all, laying down the standards of behaviour he expected

I feel shame, not for the wrong things I have done, but for the right things that I have failed to do.

We forgive the crimes of individuals, but not their participation in a collective crime.

Those who have put out the people's eyes, reproach them of their blindness.

Firm they might have stood, yet fell; remember, and fear to transgress.

If you keep shining the neon light of analysis and accountability on the tender tissue of your belonging, you make it parched and barren.

And those who pretend to be teachers of others, and yet despise his teaching assistance, will one day find that they undertook a work which was none of theirs.

Joined by retired Democratic senator George Mitchell and former Senate aide Charlie Scheeler, DLA Piper sought to protect the avaricious interests of its clients, including one of the retailers identified with the factory collapse (Gap), at the expense of the people and economy of Bangladesh.1

Voters do not choose prime ministers; they choose representatives. And the voters' muscle is expressed through the right of their representatives to give their confidence to governments and to remove it. If the ability of the representatives to give or remove their confidence is interfered with, we are no longer a democracy.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions. —John Ray (1670)

That's the end of it?" "Not quite. I've invited Grant to a little confab in my office tomorrow, with Porter Smalls. Mitford will be there, and her campaign manager, and I'd like you to sit in. And I'll get Rose Marie to come along." "Why is that?" "Because I want everybody clear on what happened here, and why everybody did what they did—including you and me," the governor said.

Stupidity is the unwillingness to appreciate the consequences of your actions.

After everything, what it all means is that if one day we slip in the bathroom and crack our head on the toilet, our last thoughts can be a satisfied, 'Well, I and only I did this to myself.

so if you live in the United States, and you are reading this prior to November 2020, please do me a favor and (a) Register to vote, or check to make sure your registration is still valid, (b) Remember to vote on election day (or before if you take an early ballot) and (c) Try not to vote for anyone who is a whirling amoral vortex of chaos.

So if he dies during the jump, it'll be my fault," Wilson said. "If he dies during the jump, I would suggest it would be politic for you to follow him

Years working at a newspaper. You learn to write fast and reasonably good and in a manner which does not require substantial editing. Or your editors and copyeditors stab you to death and hang your corpse in the newsroom as a warning to the other staff writers.

It's funny to me that when people fuck up, they think 'it was just business' is in any way a defense.

But whether it truly exists or not, humans need the idea of Hell, whether it be to scare us into a moral life, comfort the smug ones who believe everyone else is going there, or simply to remind us that the actions of our lives, good or ill, live beyond those lives themselves, and the accounting of them may occur past the day we ourselves happen to stop.

Try not to vote for anyone who is a whirling amoral vortex of chaos.

You are What you do When it counts - The Masao

You are What you do When it counts.

Don't you dare take the lazy way. It's too easy to excuse yourself because of your ancestry. Don't let me catch you doing it! Now -- look close at me so you will remember. Whatever you do, it will be you who do.

There's a responsibility in being a person. It's more than just taking up space where air would be.

You see, there's a responsibility in being a person. It's more than just taking up space where air would be.