Accountability quotes
242 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury."
"The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children."
"The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions."
"Ability is a wonderful thing, but its value is greatly enhanced by dependability. Ability implies repeatability and accountability."
"The word accounting comes from the word accountability. If you are going to be rich, you need to be accountable for your money."
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"I learned in an extremely hard way that the accountability falls with me."
"What is called 'capitalism'is basically a system of corporate mercantilism, with huge and largely unaccountable private tyrannies exercising vast control over the economy, political systems, and social and cultural life, operating in close cooperation with powerful states that intervene massively in the domestic economy and international society."
"To begin by always thinking of love as an action rather than a feeling is one way in which anyone using the word in this manner automatically assumes accountability and responsibility."
"It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts."
"The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct."
"Deregulation has been, above all else, a means of reducing corporate business's accountability to the public."
"The key to growth is to learn to make promises and to keep them."
"The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself."
"The Government has already U-turned today and I think the pressure is clearly growing for proper accountability over what this Government's negotiating position is on Brexit."
"A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last."
"It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability."
"The collapse of good conscience and the absence of accountability and public scrutiny have led to crimes against humanity and violations of international law."
"We all create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a real sense, by the time we are adults, we are the sum total of the choices we have made."
"I believe that all of us have gangster proclivities and greedy orientations that need accountability. That's why democracies are necessary. We have to have institutions to try to curtail the use of arbitrary power so that our greedy orientations and gangster-like proclivities don't get out of hand."
"You cannot have democratic accountability in anything bigger than a nation state."
"No individual can achieve worthy goals without accepting accountability for his or her own actions."
"Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account."
"The taxpayers deserve accountability."
"As buoyancy is not contrary to other characteristics of leadership, including decisiveness, accountability and performance standards, I don't ever think it can be self-defeating."
"I am lord of myself, accountable to none."
