Quotes About Accountability

It was one of those moments when the moral high ground opens and swallows you up.

If you're thinking about doing something you won't be able to confess to your spouse or best friend, then DON'T DO IT! YOU ALREADY KNOW IT'S WRONG!

How would we fare psychologically if the walls of slaughterhouses were made of glass?

When you are called to lead, the last thing you want to do is vacillate, show fear, display weakness and indecisiveness, or fail to act.

Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.

If every time we choose a turd, society, at a great expense, simply allows us to redeem it for a pepperoni, then not only will we never learn to make smart choices, we will also surrender the freedom to choose, because a choice without consequences is no choice at all.

Anything can be misused. Furthermore, every individual has to assume responsibility for his or her own actions, even the poor and the young. A social system that decrees otherwise is inviting intellectual atrophy and spiritual stagnation.

Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.

Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe.

Don't let your mouth start nothing your ass can't stand.

it was the right thing to do, but she had no right to do it. (Introduction)

She is convinced that when language dies, out of carelessness, disuse, indifference and absence of esteem, or killed by fiat, not only she herself, but all users and makers are accountable for its demise. In her country children have bitten their tongues off and use bullets instead to iterate the voice of speechlessness, of disabled and disabling language, of language adults have abandoned altogether as a device for grappling with meaning, providing guidance, or expressing love.

At least she's willing to figure it out, do something, risk something and take its measure. I risk nothing. I sit on a throne and identify signs of imperfection in others.

And all he could say was that he did not know. He was guilty, therefore, of innocence. Was there anything so loathsome as a willfully innocent man? Hardly. An innocent man is a sin before God. Inhuman and therefore unworthy. No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind, the foul air of his innocence, even if it did wilt rows of angel trumpets and cause them to fall from their vines.

Now no one can fault the conqueror for writing history the way he sees it, and certainly not for digesting human events and discovering their patterns according to his point of view. But we can fault him for not owning up to what his point of view is.

Enron, Halliburton, and WorldCom.

Maybe all he was really saying was: I am not responsible for your pain; share your happiness with me but not your unhappiness.

Come Prepared or Not at All

A lot of us will be able to show how God's gifts benefited us. But that's not the question. The issue with a steward is, how did the King's business fare under your management? Is the King better off? Was His agenda furthered?

we can't use someone else's irresponsibility in the past as an excuse for our irresponsibility in the present. If

When men begin to function in their homes, accountable to the guidance and direction of a leader in the church, things change.

Generational irresponsibility leads to lifetimes of oppression, addiction, and waste.

All modern U.S. presidents are perforce politicians, prisoners of their past pronouncements, their party, their constituency, and their colleagues.

Why does this matter? Because—as the Greeks knew—participation in the way you are governed not only heightens a collective sense of responsibility for the things government does, it also keeps our rulers honest and holds authoritarian excess at bay.