Quotes About Accountability

Never accept the blame for what evil people do. We are all responsible for our own actions. She was lecturing him, so she stopped. "Sorry. Hang around with Bran too long, and see if you don't start passing around the Marrok's advice as if he were Confucius.

Yes, well," said his da with a hint of a grow that told him just how worried Bran had been about him, "that'll teach you to dodge a bit quicker next time." "Sorry," he apologized meekly as he sat in the passenger seat. "Good," said Bran, shutting the door gently. "Don't let it happen again." -Bran and Charles

When you watch your allies commit atrocities and do nothing, who is more reprehensible? Those who rape and plunder or those who could have stopped it but do nothing?

People died when Bran was at his most reasonable. Some of them died horribly. All of them idiots.

Neutral doesn't work," Charles said. "When you watch your allies commit atrocities and do nothing, who is more reprehensible? Those who rape and plunder or those who could have stopped it but do nothing?

an apology implies that you wouldn't do it again. (Adam)

Never accept the blame for what evil people do. We are all responsible for our own actions.

Anna shook her head. 'Never accept the blame for what evil people do. We are all responsible for our own actions.

Accept some responsibility for your own life, I panted, finally. You could have stayed sitting in the middle of the road. You chose to come with us.

I didn't ask what you'd said about it," the frog snapped. "I asked what you're going to do. Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things.

Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things.

In short, if we wish to see anything sensible done about the situation, we will clearly have to do it ourselves.

The justice I have received, I shall give back.

Be part of the answer, not part of the mess.

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You don't get to choose what the world would require of you. You got to choose only how you responded.

It was time to lower the boom.

what did we expect when, even in so-called democratic countries, we have become so selfish and passive, letting factions of tiny, powerful and unaccountable elites dominate both politics and economics? That applies to most leading political parties, even in democracies, whose overriding concerns usually seem to be getting re-elected and protecting big business.

tells us that not many of us should become teachers (James 3:1), because the teachers are to be judged more strictly. For this reason, Christians should strive mightily in prayer for their teachers, that those teachers should teach the unadulterated word of God. Those teachers are in a most awful position—God will judge them on the basis of how well they taught his message. It is our prayers, yours and mine, that will help to keep them on the right path.

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

The bottom line is: Your life is up to you. Take charge of it, or somebody else will.

The way to take ownership is to realize that everything that happens is a consequence of your free will.

Great teams do not hold back with one another. They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry. They admit their mistakes, their weaknesses, and their concerns without fear of reprisal.

No one on a cohesive team can say, Well, I did my job. Our failure isn't my fault.