Human Accountability Quotes

A computer, by definition, cannot be held accountable for anything because there is no mechanism to hold it to account, short of turning off the electricity supply or destroying the hardware. Only humans can be accountable.

Only God has rights. People have duties.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

[If] man creates the problem, surely man can solve it.

It's disgraceful how these humans blame the gods. They say their tribulations come from us, when they themselves, through their own foolishness, bring hardships which are not decreed by Fate.

Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.

What does it mean to say that government might have a responsibility? Government can't have a responsibility any more than the business can. The only entities which can have responsibilities are people.

God is not necessary to create culpability, or to punish. Our fellow men are enough for that, helped by ourselves.

God is absolutely sovereign, but his sovereignty never mitigates human responsibility.

Humans have more moral responsibility perhaps, because they are capable of reasoning.

If this being is omnipotent, then every occurrence, including every human action, every human thought, and every human feeling and aspiration is also His work; how is it possible to think of holding men responsible for their deeds and thoughts before such an almighty Being? In giving out punishment and rewards He would to a certain extent be passing judgment on Himself. How can this be combined with the goodness and righteousness ascribed to Him?

God gives us humans everything we need to flourish, but he's not the one who's supposed to divvy up the loot. That charge was laid upon us

We are too prone to make technological instruments the scapegoats for the sins of those who wield them. The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value.

To what gulfs A single deviation from the track Of human duties leads even those who claim The homage of mankind as their born due, And find it, till they forfeit it themselves!

Since after extinction no one will be present to take responsibility, we have to take full responsibility now.

When there’s only God to blame, we forgive him. When it’s our fellow man, we destroy him.

There is no difference between machine autonomy and the abdication of human responsibility.

Ah how shameless – the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their miseries yes but they themselves with their own reckless ways compound their pains beyond their proper share.

If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.

Ethical globalization is possible if only we can hold governments and business accountable for respecting human rights, not just in the traditional political and legal realms, but in everything - health, education and the other social determinants of health - rights to food, safe water, sanitation and so on.