Quotes About Accountability

It's uncomfortable to look at ourselves, assess our selfishness and sinfulness, and tell another human being about it.

when you do for them what they should be doing for themselves, you create entitlement and dependency rather than empowerment.

I'm not hurting anyone' is another attempt to avoid personal responsibility in a world where everything we think, do, and say affects someone, something, sooner or later. Your actions profoundly affect your inner reality, and sooner or later your inner reality will seek an outer expression through your words and actions or your silence and inaction.

You have to focus on encouraging people and giving people permission to pursue their dreams. You have to avoid judgement, and provide tools and accountability, but you can't take responsibility for them achieving their dreams.

All men and women flee from the witnesses of their wrongdoings.

Por último, medita mucho sobre la severidad y lo repentino de ese día del juicio, a través del cual tú y yo debemos pasar al estado eterno; en donde Dios, el juez imparcial, requerirá cuenta de todo lo que hicimos con nuestros talentos y aquello que nos fue encargado.

That's me, giving myself a tough-love speech. I'm going to start doing that more often, I've decided. One might as well put his inner monologue to good use.

Yes, we rather condemn people for eternity without the courtesy of informing them.'

you have the right to feel however you like, but not the right to act however you want.

The only thing worse than cruelty is delegated cruelty.

On the Day of Judgment, no step shall a man stir until he has answered questions on five aspects of his wordly existence: his life and how he spent it; his knowledge and what use he has made of it; his wealth, how he acquired it and how he has spent it; and his body and how he has utilized it. HADITH OF AT-TIRMIDHI ON THE AUTHORITY OF ABU HURAYRAH.

Jennings is too tough and honest a writer to let anyone off her moral hook, even her hero.

Peoples bear the weight of curses longer than the princes who incur them.

My stance has always been that there's no place in our sport for drug users. I've always said it's a ban for life if you come up positive. I stand by that.

Nations have the government which they deserve, or rather, the government which they have is truly no more than the magnified and public projection of the private morality and mentality of the nation.

You can't blame anyone else, ... , no one but yourself. You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices.

We relinquished our freedom that day, and we were more than happy to see it go. From that moment on we lived in true freedom, the freedom to point to someone else and say "They told me to do it! It's their fault, not mine." The freedom, God help us, to say "I was only following orders."-World War Z

Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others.

The record suggests that official secrecy does more to protect intelligence agencies from domestic accountability for their own follies than to shield them from enemy penetration.

Some Americans responded brutally to such docility: in two separate incidents on 14 July, an officer and an NCO of the U.S. 45th Division murdered large groups of Italians in cold blood. One, Sgt. Horace West, who killed thirty-seven with a Thompson submachine gun, was convicted by a court-martial, but later granted clemency. The other, Capt. John Compton, assembled a firing squad which massacred thirty-six Italian prisoners.

The egregious error committed by US statesmen and commanders was not that of lying to the world, but rather that of lying to themselves.

Política como vocación). Los funcionarios con un alto sentido ético, tales como los que desgraciadamente han ocupado entre nosotros una y otra vez cargos directivos, son precisamente malos políticos, irresponsables en sentido político y por tanto desde este punto de vista, éticamente detestables.

Perhaps the spreading of fake news shouldn`t be criminalized as a felony, but it must be penalized in some way, and there should at least be court trials for that.

Social media's almightiness has brought about many things, but the main one is transparency. Total transparency everywhere and for everyone.