Quotes About Accountability

most people don't want to be free. Because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

Do you ever think 'how did I end up here'? Like you are in a maze and totally lost and it's all your fault because you were the one who made every turn?... Do you? Or is this maze just for me?

Well, you don't see yourself as a bad cat owner any more. You looked after him as well as he could have been looked after.

killing is not a stone you throw away, it is a boomerang that comes back and gets you on the head.

One day, if you get into a position of power, tell people this: just because you can, it doesn't mean you should.

I'm saying people can be real creative when it comes to ducking responsibility.

Too-big-to-fail, meet small-enough-to-jail.

since 2008, no high-ranking executive from any financial institution has gone to jail, not one, for any of the systemic crimes that wiped out 40 percent of the world's wealth.

The London-based Reprieve organization found that 1,147 people were killed by drones in efforts to kill just forty-one men.

Elections, like criminal trials, are ultimately always about assigning blame.

Folk who cannot say sorry have no ethics.

It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.

The greater the privileges we enjoy the greater is our danger if we do not improve them and live up to them.

By having fellowship with sin, which is abominable, we make ourselves abominable.

Good instructions from parents and ministers will but aggravate our condemnation if we do not live up to them.

Those sins which are concealed from our governors are naked and open before God.

We must never be drawn into sin by any thing that man can say or do to us, for it will not justify us to say that we were so drawn in.

Those who complain most are most to be complained of.

Those who are saved have only God to thank, and those who perish have only themselves to blame.

People are ruined, not so much by doing what is amiss, as by doing it and not repenting of it, doing it and standing to it.

Those that would be kept from bad courses must keep from bad company; it is dangerous living in a bad neighbourhood; others' sins will be our snares, if we look not well to ourselves.

We are all undone, both ministers and people, if we must bear our own iniquity;

Unbelief shall be left inexcusable, and convicted of a wilful obstinacy.

As men deal with God's people, let them expect to be themselves dealt with; with the froward he will wrestle.