Quotes About Accountability

Roche hadn't just blithely assumed that the powerful drugs it was about to introduce to the public would be safe: the company had deliberately obfuscated evidence to the contrary. In

when the government fines corporations, rather than sending executives to jail, it amounts to "expensive licenses for criminal misconduct.

break through the corporate veil so that they can name the owners.

the very government officials whose job it was to regulate the company and hold it to account ended up seduced by a new job at the company itself.

It wasn't just the implicit threat that rankled Maura Healey. It was the fact that the Sacklers were playing a shell game: they were throwing their lot in with Purdue when it suited them to do so and distancing themselves from the company when it didn't.

against the Sacklers were twisting the facts to scapegoat her clients, she argued. What was their crime? All they had done was sell a drug that was perfectly legal—a product

My bad luck got tangled up with my bad decisions, and I'm paying for it.

If you sell me a horse that throws a shoe, or starts to limp, or spooks at shadows, I will miss a valuable opportunity. A quite unrecoverable opportunity. If that happens, I will not come back and demand a refund. I will not petition the constable. I will walk back to Imre this very night and set fire to your house. Then, when you run out the front door in your nightshirt and stockle-cap, I will kill you, cook you, and eat you. Right there on your lawn while all your neighbors watch.

Chronicler frowned. "You said yourself that there was nothing you could have done." "I could have," Kvothe said seriously, "and I didn't. I made my choice and I regret it to this day. Bones mend. Regret stays with you forever.

No fue solo culpa mía —puntualicé. —No se trata de ser o no culpable —razonó Manet—. Un árbol no provoca una tormenta, pero cualquier idiota sabe dónde va a caer el rayo.

It´s worst when it´s your own stupid fault isn't it?.

And some folk need killing. That's all there is to it.

I care nothing for your intentions, E'lir Kvothe, deceived or otherwise. All that matters is the reality of your actions. Your hand held the fire. Yours is the blame. That is the lesson all adults must learn.

You're already into me for nine talents.

No se trata de ser o no culpable —razonó Manet—. Un árbol no provoca una tormenta, pero cualquier idiota sabe dónde va a caer el rayo. Wilem asintió con gesto grave. —En mi tierra decimos: el clavo más alto es el que primero recibe el martillazo. —Arrugó el entrecejo—. En siaru suena mejor.

All such advances require only that we live by the principles we claim to espouse but have too long ignored...

Sometimes the hardest thing someone has to do is admit that he's wrong. Of course I only know this from what I hear from other people, as it's never happened to me personally." -Dionysus, god of wine, women, and song, bartender

I didn't do it," said the demon, lowering his pitchfork even further. You

If you don't do it, then you won't have done it.

I never wanted to go on stage alone because if you mess up, who can you blame?

Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine. I had written the line before as a declaration of existence, as a vow to take responsibility for my own actions.

Shelving books incorrectly is as good as stealing them. It's almost worse.

The point is that, whatever other people's failings might be, you are the one to shoulder the responsibility.

I make no excuse for what happened. Drunkenness is never more than a symptom, not an absolute cause, and I realize that it would be wrong of me to try to defend myself. Nevertheless, there is at least the possibility of an explanation.