Quotes about Accountability
Francis is at the mercy of an incoherent Catholic morality about all kinds of sexual expression, and he seems incapable of bringing the needed moral clarity and essential new structure of accountability. That incoherence in ethics and morality is itself essential to the malignant culture of clericalism that imprisons many, including the Pope.
— James Carroll
One who cannot swim must not blame the water.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A man is responsible for his ignorance.
— Milan Kundera
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man
— John F. Kennedy
If a man is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault, for God made all men to be happy.
— Epictetus
A great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: "There is no indispensable man"
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
— Henry Ward Beecher
To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing.
— Theodore Roosevelt
When things haven't gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Speak to your people as to men that must be awakened, either here or in hell.
— Richard Baxter