Quotes About Accountability

El que vigila al pueblo acaba siendo vigilado por el pueblo. Hay una fundamental lógica democrática en ello»

If you can afford a strong defence you can get away with whatever you want these days.

always the wrong people who have the guilty conscience. Those who are really responsible for suffering in the world couldn't care less. It's the ones fighting for good who are consumed by remorse.

Choices are in our power, but consequences are not.

If we do nothing...and turn our backs now, in future generations, when rank corruption masquerades as libery, it will be upon our shoulders. True patriots will then ask why we who were there to witness our nation at the crossroads did nothing.

At what point, I wondered, does silence become complicity?

Three years earlier, when the Abu Ghraib prison scandal in Iraq became public, Rush Limbaugh—the most popular radio broadcaster in the United States, whose syndicated radio show has, at last count, 13 million listeners—described the prisoners who had been killed, raped, tortured, and humiliated by or at the behest of U.S. military personnel, as less than human. "They are the ones who are sick," fumed Limbaugh.

While those of us in schools may wish to blame others for imposing constraints, many of our constraints are self imposed. Are we able to escape from these and respond to what we believe is best for our students? One

If we don't get to the roots of our sins, we will just keep confessing the same old things unproductively forever.

And if I'd found you lying there in the sun, and left you? What would you call that if not murder? --- It's not the same, Cain mutters. --- Is to me. A man who witnesses a death without trying to prevent it is as responsible for the man who causes it.

Confess what you have done... Do not compound your sin by denying it.

Know this... The earth sickens of your crime.

When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then the citizenry better represent the citizenry.

Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.

And God said 'Let there be Satan, so people don't blame everything on me. And let there be lawyers, so people don't blame everything on Satan.'

I have nothing to hide. I am a servant of the living God. He is the only one I answer to.

In the end, dear friend, it is always between us and God, not between us and them.

If God is watching your every move, you should probably straighten up your act a little bit.

Television is a gift of God, and God will hold those who utilize his divine instrument accountable to him.

God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me, but you can't fool God!

God is missed through laziness, indifference and unwillingness.

All our words and actions pass in review before God.

Grace does not cancel out our responsibility or accountability for the things God has given us to do.

As sure as God made black and white, what's done in the dark will be brought to the light.