Quotes About Accountability

We tend to deny our humanity because in accepting the fullness of it, we would need to confess how little we've done with it.

there is nothing to be feared except a result of our own actions

there is both fear and comfort to be drawn from devils--the fear speaks for itself, the comfort comes from being able to absolve oneself of responsibility for one's actions.

If you are inefficient, you have a right to be afraid of the consequences.

When there is hell to pay, it is usually cheaper to pay it than to finance an endless purgatory.

Managing university finances is very tricky business. We're nonprofits. We're not supposed to accumulate large surpluses.

I think there were bad actors in the government and bad actors in the finance, mortgage, markets industries that need to be called out and held accountable.

SHIT, OR GET OFF THE POT

The bathroom scale knows nothing of extenuating circumstances.

You can't do it for someone else. No matter how much they motivate or inspire you, you have to do it for yourself. Your health is YOUR responsibility.

Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do.

People were always pointing the finger at the fast food industry. And I was a big fan of personal responsibility - you know, no one is forcing you to eat. We're not geese being stuffed with corn.

Part of what the food industry does with public relations, just like the chemical industry or the oil industry, is to try to erase their fingerprints from their messaging.

You should ask where your food is coming from.

I can pardon everybody's mistakes except my own.

Nobody will be able to forgive me but myself.

To be forgiven is not enough; we must put an end to the very need to be forgiven.

If little faults proceeding on distemper Shall not be winked at, how shall we stretch our eye When capital crimes, chewed, swallowed, and digested, Appear before us?

Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong

Ask forgiveness, not permission. But make sure you bring your results with you.

Consequences don't just go away. They aren't suddenly dissolved just because forgiveness has been desired or given.

When thee builds a prison, thee had better build with the thought ever in thy mind that thee and thy children may occupy the cells.

The press was to serve the governed, not the governors.

The liberty to make our laws does not give us the freedom nor the license to break our laws!