Accountability Quotes - Page 12

• The internet brought many laudable things, but prosperity, stability, accountability and honest politics were not four of them.

  Bruce Sterling

  Four, Honest, Internet

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• We are accountable only to ourselves for what happens to us in our lives.

  Mildred Newman

  Happens, Our Lives

  Mildred Newman, Bernard Berkowitz, Jean Owen (2016). “How to Be Your Own Best Friend”, p.7, Ballantine Books

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• It is a shame that so many leaders spend their time pondering their rights as leaders instead of their awesome responsibilities as leaders.

  James Hunter

  Responsibility, Rights, Leader

  James C. Hunter (2008). “The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership”, p.63, Crown Business

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• Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.

  Paul Tillich

  Destiny, Men

  Paul Tillich (1988). “Writings on religion”

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• The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Hunting, Blame, Scapegoat

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• Whether or not you believe in God, you must believe this: when we as a species abandon our trust in a power greater than us, we abandon our sense of accountability. Faiths… all faiths… are admonitions that there is something we cannot understand, something to which we are accountable. With faith we are accountable to each other, to ourselves, and to a higher truth. Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed. The church consists of a brotherhood of imperfect, simple souls wanting only to be a voice of compassion in a world spinning out of control.

  Dan Brown

  Faith, Believe, Simple

  "Angels and Demons". Book by Dan Brown, 2000.

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• If there is one tendency of the day which more than any other is unhealthy and undesirable, it is the tendency to deify mere "smartness," unaccompanied by a sense of moral accountability. We shall never make our republic what it should be until as a people we thoroughly understand and put in practice the doctrine that success is abhorrent if attained by the sacrifice of the fundamental principles of morality.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Sacrifice, Practice, People

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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• In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. If secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the credibility of his victim. If he cannot silence her absolutely, he tries to make sure no one listens.

  Judith Lewis Herman

  Escaping, Order, Silence

  Judith Lewis Herman (1997). “Trauma and Recovery”, p.8, Basic Books

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• [Government] regulation is an imperfect substitute for the accountability, and trust, built into a market in which food producers meet the gaze of eaters and vice versa.

  Michael Pollan

  Government, Vices, Regulation

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• People who carry in their hearts a strong conviction concerning the living reality of the Almighty and their accountability to Him for what they do with their lives are far less likely to become enmeshed in problems that inevitably weaken society.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Strong, Heart, Reality

  Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes”, p.21, Harmony

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• The merits of deeper debt cancellation, when accompanied by conditions of accountability and transparency on the part of recipient countries, have been shown to generate much needed resources for health, education and poverty reduction for some of the world's poorest people.

  John Ricard

  Country, Health Education, Poverty Reduction

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• As the world becomes more environmentally aware, I believe that we must as individuals recognize the magnificence of our natural world, and feel a sense of accountability for our actions which affect it.

  Bob Irwin

  Believe, World, Our Actions

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• The whole human rights structure is based on the accountability of governments.

  Mary Robinson

  Rights, Government, Structure

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• It remains the task of governments to implement the fundamental human rights standards which should influence all aspects of globalisation, including even trade talks, and to be answerable for this in a democratic way. The structure is international, but the accountability is national and I would like to see that accountability being more penetrating at regional and local level, especially in federal systems.

  Mary Robinson

  Rights, Government, Fundamentals

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• Democracy is not being well served as we're accustomed to. There is less information, there's less investigation, there's less analysis, there's less accountability.

  Edward Greenspon

  Democracy, Analysis, Information

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• Who has not first tried to get out of a tough situation before truly dealing with it?

  Mary O'Neill

  Firsts, Tough, Situation

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• Secrecy destroys accountability.

  Ralph Nader

  Political, Secrecy

  Ralph Nader (2014). “Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State”, p.65, Nation Books

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• This strongly asserted but ill-defined license to kill without accountability is not an entitlement which the United States or other states can have without doing grave damage to the rules designed to protect the right to life and prevent extrajudicial executions.

  Philip Alston

  United States, Air Power, Damage

  "U.N. report faults prolific use of drone strikes by U.S." by David S. Cloud, articles.latimes.com. June 3, 2010.

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• When they say accountability, they mean surveillance and standardization.

  Marc Lamont Hill

  Mean, Surveillance, Standardization

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• Reciprocal accountability, or criticism [is] the only known antidote to error.

  David Brin

  Errors, Criticism, Antidote

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• So what am I willing to do? Do my work heartily, unto the Lord. There is no higher accountability in life than to do something for God. So that's kind of how I operate.

  Mark Richt

  Kind, Lord, Higher

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• Man, I wouldn't know where to begin on education reform, but one thing we have to do is add teacher accountability WITHOUT stressing standardized test scores.

  Raheem Jarbo

  Teacher, Stress, Men

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• America is not a country that wanders around trusting people with power. This is a country that wants accountability.

  Newt Gingrich

  Country, America, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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• There's a real danger in the way our representative government functions today. It functions properly only when paired with accountability.

  Edward Snowden

  Real, Government, Today

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• We can no longer afford to be entertained beyond the point of accountability. We can't keep selling each other out and be willing to do anything to be seen, to be famous or to be rich.

  T.I.

  Rich, Selling, Willing

  Source: www.ebony.com

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