Quotes about Accountability

If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically.

We are much more forgiving of those who are willing to come clean right away.

I can't imagine the pressure you must be under to have the weight of an entire country on your shoulders.

If we know we are going to be rebuked anyhow, isn't it far better to beat the other person to it and do it ourselves? Isn't it much easier to listen to self-criticism than to bear condemnation from alien lips?

We have all read the golden rule and the Sermon on the Mount. Our trouble is not ignorance, but inaction.

The so-called "right to privacy" of which so much is made in contemporary life is in very large measure merely a way of avoiding scrutiny in our wrongdoing.

So the call to "give an account" is, first, not a call to beat unwilling people into intellectual submission, but to be the servant of those in need, often indeed the servant of those who are in the grip of their own intellectual self-righteousness and pride, usually reinforced by their social surroundings.

What is the point of standing up for rights in a world where few stand up for their responsibilities? Your rights will do you little good unless others are responsible

You cannot choose conditions and reject the consequences. Even a "bill of rights" cannot change that.

"I tell you, you will not get out until you have paid the last penny."

We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.

There are eternal consequences resulting from all our thoughts, words and actions, of which we take far too little account.