Accountability Quote by Alan Dershowitz Download Open image “Candor and accountability in a democracy is very important. Hypocrisy has no place.” — Alan Dershowitz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Accountability Candor Democracy Hypocrisy Important Political
Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy is the audacity to preach integrity from a den of corruption. — Wes Fesler Copy Share Image
“Democracy requires accountability and consent of the governed, which is only possible if citizens know what is being done in their name.” — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy. — Paul Wellstone Copy Share Image
Democracy gives the aura of legitimacy to acts that would otherwise be considered tyranny. — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance. — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
Democracy is just a reflection of our morals and the things that we believe. — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
Perhaps nothing in our society is more needed for those in positions of authority than accountability. — Larry Burkett Copy Share Image
There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
A criminal trial is never about seeking justice for the victim. If it were, there could be only one verdict: guilty. — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
If torture is going to be administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save enormous numbers of lives, it ought to… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Our First Amendment expresses a far different calculus for regulating speech than for regulating nonexpressive conduct and that is as it should be. The… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
I think that lawyers are terrible at admitting that they're wrong. And not just admitting it; also realizing it. Most lawyers are very successful,… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Asymmetrical warfare is a euphemism for terrorism, just like collateral damage is a euphemism for killing innocent civilians. — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
I never had an existential moment when I asked myself what I was going to do. I always wanted to be a lawyer, and… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
It's a new phenomenon in America that states can now sue the national government and become a kind of check and balance on the… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
When it comes to partisan politics, everyone is a hypocrite. And all they care about is whether it hurts or helps them ... Is… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In the battle for police reform, accountability and justice, Americans don't have to re-invent the wheel. We just have to revoke the thing that… — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
Transparency pertains to impartial behavior, implies openness, communication, and accountability. Inculcate transparency in attitude and experience a life free of controversy and blame — Dr Anil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions.… — Atifete Jahjaga Copy Share Image
Democracy is not being well served as we're accustomed to. There is less information, there's less investigation, there's less analysis, there's less accountability. — Edward Greenspon Copy Share Image
I come from a world where accountability and accomplishments matter, and where titles and rhetoric take a back seat to results. — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to our god alone. I enquire after no man's and trouble none with mine;… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
This strongly asserted but ill-defined license to kill without accountability is not an entitlement which the United States or other states can have without… — Philip Alston Copy Share Image
Responsible Development shares many practices with XP but the roots are different. Responsible Development's values are honesty, transparency, accountability and responsibility. These lead me… — Kent Beck Copy Share Image
“Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge… is empathy, for it… — Bill Bullard Copy Share Image
The American people deserve accountability over wasteful spending, and we accomplish that by prioritizing taxpayer dollars in a responsive and responsible manner. — Katie Britt Copy Share Image