Quotes About Accountability

On the one hand Twitter gives you the opportunity to engage with people, which is great, but on the other there are people who feel they can say whatever they want, put poison out there, really, without fear of any repercussions.

What is inappropriate is accepting fossil fuel funding while attacking others for doing the same. Even less appropriate is lying about it.

Michael Shellenberger

The "hypocrite" is the critic who disguises his own failings by focusing attention on the failings of others.

The Spider Hero lived his life by this maxim: He who possesses great power is burdened also with great responsibility. —

They're the ones who screwed everything up. Not me. I didn't ask to be saved

Pick your associates well, back them fully, empower them with both accountability and responsibility, and they will produce far more than you ever will achieve on your own.

Evangelism and stewardship, women's and men' ministries, youth ministry, Sunday school, worship, social justice ministries, and even pastoral care must be held accountable to this one question: how does what we are doing encourage and enable others to live lives of active faith?

Bannon, Kushner, Conway, and the president's daughter actually had no specific responsibilities—they could make it up as they went along. They did what they wanted.

Who can talk you through this stuff before you decided to act on it?" "Well," said the president, "you won't like the answer, but the answer is me. Me. I talk to myself.

It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star they let you do it. You can do anything.… Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything.

We serve at the president's displeasure," another.

As for the looming defeat itself, she shrugged it off: it was Reince Priebus's fault, not hers.

people might conclude that this was just more proof that you obviously couldn't hold Trump responsible for executing on anything, much less an attack on the U.S. Capitol.)

The President didn't seem to realize that in order to make sound decisions there needed to be at least one adult in the room.

Donald, you can't do it. You've made your bed and Steve is in it.

the president always needed someone else to blame; that nothing bad happened to him that was not directly caused by the failure or active malice of someone else.

If a man neglects to enforce his rights, he cannot complain if, after a while, the law follows his example." —Oliver Wendell Holmes

She was learning at breakneck speed that the price of freedom was responsibility.

Now I want you to consider: any legal adult here can do anything he wishes with the only restriction being that no one else gets hurt.

Everyone wants "freedom," she decided, but the more free one was, the more responsibility one had.

There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

But the guilty person is only one of the targets of punishment. For punishment is directed above all at others, at all the potentially guilty.

You really can't do anything about people's lives, I said to myself, neither friendship nor compassion nor the intelligence of the situations is of any use: people manufacture the mechanism of their own misfortune, they wind it right up and the mechanism goes on turning