Quotes about Accountability

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and not be held responsible. [Cultural Factors in the Cause of Pathological Homicide. Bulletin of Menninger Clinic ]

You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think.

If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.

Consequences don't just go away. They aren't suddenly dissolved just because forgiveness has been desired or given.

When thee builds a prison, thee had better build with the thought ever in thy mind that thee and thy children may occupy the cells.

If the people were to ever find out what we have done, we would be chased down the streets and lynched.

Freedom is not only a gift, but a summons to personal responsibility.

Everybody is born free. Not everybody is worthy of freedom.

Behind real freedom, there lies discipline.

Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.

Your life is the fruit of your own doing you have no one to blame but your self

Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well -- he has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun.