45 Quotes About Accountable



  • Author Jan-Werner Müller
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    Even for the most minimal definitions of democracy—as a mechanism to ensure peaceful turnovers in power after a process of popular will-formation —it is crucial that citizens be well informed about politics; otherwise, governments can hardly be held accountable.

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  • Author Erik Pevernagie
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    The day we finally hold ourselves accountable, rather than putting the blame on others, and come clean about our responsibilities, we unfetter ourselves from ravaging frustrations and fretting crankiness. ("The unbearable heaviness of being" )

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  • Author Abiodun Fijabi
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    Isn't it ironic that we often condemn in others what we hate in ourselves? We project our shortcomings on others and confront them in their lives, not in ours. We excuse our weaknesses, but sharply oppose the same weaknesses in others. We discharge and acquit our misdemeanors but hold others accountable for theirs. In what is an obvious injustice, we consider the log in our eyes too small to be seen but the speck in others' eyes too big to be ignored.

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  • Author Ehsan Sehgal
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    It is a shameful crime if any judge surpasses law and gives the verdict based on any relationship with the offenders or political motives. Such judges should also be accountable and brought to justice.

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  • Author Henry Cloud
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    Remember, whoever you are trying to please is accountable for his own life, and you are accountable for yours. Whenever you live for someone else, he controls two lives, his and yours. Yet we are the ones who will answer for the life that is truly ours - the only one God gives is.

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  • Author Ehsan Sehgal
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    You can play with your own heart, feeling, and life when you want, but you cannot play with someone else's heart, feeling, and life. For that, you are accountable to your conscience and God.

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