#account

If you're nasty, I won't fight. If you're rough, well that's just you. If you're mean, that's alright too. Whatever you are is all okay. I don't like you anyway. ↗

— Shel Silverstein

#change #don-t #my #on #change

Secret elisions within families are suddenly revealed by self-execution, and just as quickly sheeted with excuses, blame, and counter-blame. But sense is made of the world only through relationship between action and reaction, symptom and cause. No change is possible without analysis of accountability. ↗

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

#action #analysis #blame #cause #counter-blame

If you aren't diligently working towards changing something that bothers you, you rescind your right to complain about it. ↗

— Rob Liano

#complaint #personal-development #personal-growth #change

My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#accounted #annoyed #dearest #free #i

It is depressing to have to point out, yet again, that there is a distinction between having the legal right to say something & having the moral right not to be held accountable for what you say. Being asked to apologise for saying something unconscionable is not the same as being stripped of the legal right to say it. It’s really not very f-cking complicated. Cry “free speech” in such contexts, you are demanding the right to speak any bilge you wish without apology or fear of comeback. You are demanding not legal rights but an end to debate about and criticism of what you say. When did bigotry get so needy? ↗

— China Miéville

#bigotry #freedom-of-speech #whining #freedom

If we want to truly regain the public's trust, we can provide greater accountability and transparency with a simple step. Let's start by communicating to our constituents about the votes we take. ↗

— Melissa Bean

#accountability #communicating #constituents #greater #our

you don't have to worry about burning bridges, if you're building your own ↗

— Kerry E. Wagner

#inspirational #ownership #resourcefulness #responsibility #self-help

It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#responsibility #responsibility

Peace comes from within.  Do not seek it without. ↗

— Gautama Buddha

#inner-peace #peace #self-acceptance #spiritual #spiritual

After all, I have spent the better part of my adult life insisting that government be open... that government be accessible... and that government be held accountable to people who voted us into office. ↗

— Roy Barnes

#accountable #adult #adult life #after #better