Quotes About Accountability

The penalties incurred for the mistakes you made had to be paid out in full to the members of your family

The penalties incurred for the mistakes you made had to be paid out in full to the members of your family. But she didn't believe that she could ever discharge these sums.

Sins couldn't be laundered by good results.

Yoseb was not wrong, and she could not take this back.

But here's the truth: There's no such thing as a benevolent leader.

Clean up your own mess. Your mama don't live here

I think a lot of writers, male and female, write as if their parents were killed in a car accident when they were 2, and they have no one to hold accountable. And unfortunately, I don't have that. I have parents who I care about what they think.

Women always take bad behavior by men and twist it to make it so it's somehow our fault, not theirs. It makes more sense to us that we're somehow wrong than the possibility that a man is being rude.

I'm not blaming my mom for my life because I am responsible for me, and nobody can change me or ruin me easier than I can.

It's [the word "sorry"] the most infuriating word in the English language. Just a cheap way to behave badly then shelve responsibility by putting the onus on the other person to be forgiving.

Before parents blame their children, they should first look to how their daughters and sons were raised.

So much easier to say, 'The devil made him do it,' than to face up to something much more horrifying: somebody, a person just like you, decided to do evil. And enjoys it.

el escritor es un inimputable, como lo es un niño o un loco. Puede perpetrar actos trascendentales de consecuencias cataclísmicas, pero como un menor de edad que no calcula las consecuencias por falta de madurez, el escritor debe ser absuelto cuando se constate que de modo impredecible e involuntario ha cambiado el devenir natural de las cosas.

If you leave the schoolhouse when midday is called and go roaming in the streets, all will scold you in the end. When an official sends you with a message, Tell it as he told it, Don't omit, don't add to it. He who neglects to praise, his name will not endure ; he who is skilled in all his conduct, from him nothing is hidden, he is not 'opposed anywhere.

I did not seize a man's daughter, nor did I seize his field STELA OF THE TREASURER ITI OF IMYOTRU

Though the face of the steersman is forward, the boat drifts as it pleases. Though the king is in the palace, though the rudder is in your hand, wrong is done around you. Long is my plea, heavy my task, "What is the matter with him ?" people ask. Be a shelter, make safe your shore, See how your quay is infested with crocodiles! Straighten your tongue, let it not stray, A serpent is this limb of man. Don't tell lies, warn the magistrates, Greasy baskets are the judges.

If you avert your face from violence, who then shall punish wrong doing ?

You are like a town without a mayor, Like a troop without a leader, Like a ship without a captain, A company without a chief. You are a sheriff who steals, A mayor who pockets, A district prosecutor of crime Who is the model for the (evil)-doer!

I have washed my soiled linen.

To err is human; to forgive is simply not our policy

If you are willing to admit faults, you have one less fault to admit.

Mr. President, you were elected to lead. You chose to follow. And now it's time for you to get out of the way.

Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.

we have indeed allow one powerful man to get away too much for far too long