societal accountability Quotes

Nations begin to dig their own graves when men talk more of human rights and less of human duties.

Most evil in the world is only partly because of an evil person. Most of it is because of the complicity of bystanders.

We need the courage to face the truth about what we are doing in the world and act responsibly to change it.

There is no suicide for which all society is not responsible.

The weight of the world is on our shoulders, its vision is through our eyes; if we blink or look aside, or turn back to finger what Plato said or remember Napoleon and his conquests, we inflict on the world the injury of some obliquity. This is life.

The citizen who sees his society's democratic clothes being worn out and does not cry it out, is not a patriot, but a traitor.

We've lost our moral foundation, which allows us to go this far over. So I don't blame Trump. I just think he is what he is. We're the ones who let that happen. We should be looking at ourselves.

I have spoken about what we can do as citizens, what we can do as a responsive citizenry, and this is where we have to shatter our complacency and become "active souls,"and be prepared to engage in aware - that personal struggle between our grief and our sorrow. But I don't think we have any choice.

When the persecution of an individual who has exposed an evil is pursued so ruthlessly and yet the evil itself is studiedly ignored, all of us know that there is something very wrong with the way that our society is conducting itself. And if we do not protest in the strongest terms about what is being done in our name, then we become complicit.

We ask the education system to expiate the sins of the rest of the society and then condemn it as hopelessly broken when it doesn't prove up to the task.

The sad truth is that societies that demand whistleblowers be martyrs often find themselves without either, and always when it matters the most.