#accountability

It was accountability that Nixon feared. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#feared #nixon

Another cause for the increase in alienation and cynicism is a feeling that too many policy decisions that affect individuals have been taken out of any system that has accountability or that they can influence. ↗

— Robert Teeter

#affect #alienation #another #any #been

The pressure of adversity is the most powerful sustainer of accountability. It's as though everything you do is multiplied by 50 in order to surpass those with a head-start. I was never capable of slacking when at the threshold of failure. ↗

— Criss Jami

#adversity #compel #drive #endure #failure

With such a worshipping wife, it was hardly possible that any natural defects in it should not be increased. The extreme sweetness of her temper must hurt his. ↗

— Jane Austen

#marriage #marriage

Never compromise your values. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#choice #inspirational #life #responsibility #truth

In the last analysis, of course, an oath will encourage fidelity in office only to the degree that officeholders continue to believe that they cannot escape ultimate accountability for a breach of faith. ↗

— James L. Buckley

#analysis #believe #breach #cannot #continue

If we are now holding late-night talk-show hosts to the same moral accountability as we hold politicians or clergymen, I'm out. I'm gone. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#clergymen #gone #hold #holding #hosts

When a bully is held accountable for his actions, his future actions will change. Bad behavior only continues for those who allow it. ↗

— Gary Hopkins

#bad-behavior #bullying #energy-healing #enlightenment #god

You can present the material, but you can't make me care. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#education #student-accountability #education

If every time we choose a turd, society, at a great expense, simply allows us to redeem it for a pepperoni, then not only will we never learn to make smart choices, we will also surrender the freedom to choose, because a choice without consequences is no choice at all. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#choice #consequences #freedom #redemption #responsibility