Quotes About Accountability

We are at once the problem and the only possible solution to the problem.

You have just dined," Emerson once wrote, "and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.

But imagine for a moment if we once again knew, strictly as a matter of course, these few unremarkable things: What it is we're eating. Where it came from. How it found its way to our table. And what, in a true accounting, it really cost.

It seemed to me not too much to ask of a meat eater, . . that at least once in his life he take some direct responsibility for the killing on which his meat-eating depends.

How did we ever get to a point where we need investigative journalists to tell us where our food comes from and nutritionists to determine the dinner menu?

You have just dined," Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote, "and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity." The

If you're going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy; God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.

If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

To him who knows to prosper and does it not, to him it is sin.

Misuse of privilege is seen as the worst sin.

Sin is the reason we rebel against authority.

You cannot be responsible for salvation until first you've been responsible for sin.

All sin and all crime comes from the same thing: 'I decided. I decided this was okay.'

Nations cannot endure in sin.

Leaders are for calling people to their better angels, for helping guide them to a kind of sterner, more mature sense of what we need to do. To me, Reagan's brand of leadership was what I call 'a liturgy of absolution.' He absolved Americans almost in a priestly role to contend with sin. Who wouldn't want that?

Parents don't care about their children; they're emotional, egotistical, selfish, and screw up their kids! Pastors knowingly mislead their flock by telling them that they can continue to sin and yet know God - because they themselves still sin. And we all know that the government does not care at all for the people.

Sin is the reason we abuse our authority.

For me, it's not really about showing the coaches. It's about being accountable, being accountable for my own actions and continuing to do what I've been doing since I got here.

I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.

I call myself a very sincere and responsible person.

If the wrong people show their true colors only after reaching our highest offices, Singapore is finished.

When you are single and have no dependents, you should be able to do whatever you want as long as it doesn't adversely effect other people.

If a firm hasn't hired a single female partner in its history, I don't think it will finally happen by accident.