Quotes About Accountability

Verily I say unto you," Stuart said, looking Cyril straight in the eye and folding his arms, "that if you do not mind your sister Millie, you will be smitten both hip and thigh

As citizens, I think we all have an exhausting duty to now what our governments are up to, and it is cowardice or laziness to ask: what can I do about it anyway? Every squeak counts, if only in self-respect.

In democracies where the citizens may read, hear or say what they like, the leaders are no better and no worse than the followers. So perhaps, if we cannot blame the leaders because the job of peacemaking is a sorry mess, we can only blame ourselves.

Polly was a writer of many deadlines. There were the ignorable deadlines, the not-to-be-taken-too-seriously deadlines: the deadlines-before-the-deadlines deadlines, and finally, the no-kidding-around deadlines. She set these various dates, she'd told him, to fool herself.

when confronted with a destructive outcome that is clearly their doing, they will say, plain and simple, "I never did that," and will to all appearances believe their own direct lie.

Fucking up a planet, even part of a planet, for no reason was kind of a big deal, and I was surprised they had gotten away with it. Okay, no, I wasn't surprised.

Don't look at me like that's my fault. I'm just telling you shit I know.

His biggest rule was that you didn't involve anyone who wasn't already playing the game. Or, as he phrased it, if you have to kill innocent bystanders, then your planning is at fault and someone should best eliminate you.

I'm not the public library feed, Senior Officer, go do your own research. I said, "If I told you, then you might find all the bodies I've already disposed of.

If I fail, everything terrible that happens next will be my fault. That's the perfect, fitting end to my life, don't you think?" "If you fail, I promise not to tell anybody," he said.

To err is human; to blame it on the other guy is even more human. —Bob Goddard

Blameshifting began immediately after the Fall and has been a sinful tendency ever since. In fact, God's commandment for children to honor their parents was a command against blaming parents.

Gets blamed for a lot of things, does the weather. Convenient scapegoat, if you ask me.

A man may be born a jackass; but it is his business if he makes himself a double one.

Take a man out of the trenches, make him a straw boss, and he develops a belly.

On J-Day our profession will have a lot to answer for! We might at least have withheld our hands instead of making them work against God.

We will have to depend in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people

If you want to be saved and be a Christian, then stay open to correction. Preachers have to rebuke, or they should leave their position. The Christian who won't accept correction is only pretending to be a Christian.

We need a millstone around our neck to keep us humble.

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say

I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality

One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.

One who condones evil is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.

You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.