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Nothing symbolizes American strength and vigor more than another unaccountable Washington bureaucrat. -- Michelle Malkin
Citizens' rights cannot be protected if their digital activities are governed and policed by opaque and publicly unaccountable corporate mechanisms. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery. -- Jonathan Mayhew
My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for? -- Virginia Woolf
Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press. -- Jesse Jackson
To the darkness and the night, the spirits seem to have a natural claim - it is their realm; the boldest of us have sometimes felt an unaccountable creeping in the thick darkness. -- Richard Jefferies
Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself. -- Lewis Thomas
Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning; but the close alliance with each other, of the different branches of science, will explain the difficulty. -- Vitruvius
Prayer and dependence on God has been our history. How unfortunate it is now that an unaccountable and unelected and misguided judge from Wisconsin, Judge Barbara Crabb, has declared National Days of Prayer - established by the Congress - to be unconstitutional. -- James Dobson
When a president promises something beyond his years in office, he is fundamentally unaccountable. It is not his budget that must finish the job. Another president inherits the problem, and it becomes a ball too easily dropped, a plan too easily abandoned, a dream too readily deferred. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Wikipedia has experienced censorship at the hands of industry groups and governments, and we are - increasingly, I think - seeing important decisions made by unaccountable, non-transparent corporate players, a shift from the open web to mobile walled gardens, and a shift from the production-based Internet to one that's consumption-based. -- Sue Gardner
I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.' -- Mark Twain
Children are unaccountable little creatures. -- Katherine Mansfield
It is easy to be a moral perfectionist when one is politically unaccountable. -- Robert D. Kaplan
The passion for playing Chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world -- H. G. Wells
Reading messed with my brain in an unaccountable way. It made me happy; or something. -- Salvatore Scibona
Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable. -- Eldridge Cleaver
Any dominant ideology operates off the assumption that what it has to say is unaccountable and unquestionable. -- Henry Giroux
I would want to see the Supreme Court reverse Citizens United and get dark, unaccountable money out of our politics. -- Hillary Clinton
I like to think that at best the interview becomes something like the unaccountable experience of talking to oneself in a mirror. -- Michael Silverblatt
The dark side of blogging is, of course, people can be (and are) just savage and uncivilized, deeply cruel and fully unaccountable. -- Augusten Burroughs
Give a man a mask, and he'll tell you deeper and darker truths. But he'll also be more abusive, unaccountable, and demonic. -- Cory Duchesne
You are curious and quick, you have a deft mind, and for some unaccountable reason, people tell you things -- useful things. -- Deanna Raybourn
The whimsicalness of our own humor is a thousand times more fickle and unaccountable than what we blame so much in fortune. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable. -- Mark Twain
One thing members of Congress need to realize is how much their reliance on staffers is hurting the institution and helping make it unaccountable. -- John Fund
It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery -- Jonathan Mayhew
There is something more severe than the problem with Thomas Friedman, which can be generalized to represent someone causing action while being completely unaccountable for his words. -- Thomas Friedman
The adventurous state of mind is a high house... The joy of adventure is unaccountable. This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful. -- Agnes Martin
The cautious faith that never saws off a limb on which it is sitting, never learns that unattached limbs may find strange unaccountable ways of not falling. -- Dallas Willard
I am too inexperienced and ignorant to conduct myself with propriety in this town, where every thing is new to me, and many things are unaccountable and perplexing. -- Fanny Burney
One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority of certain human biengs. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority of certain human beings. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
For the first time in four billion years a living creature had contemplated himself and heard with a sudden, unaccountable loneliness, the whisper of the wind in the night reeds. -- Loren Eiseley
The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations. -- Noam Chomsky
Greyhound racing is a self-regulating gambling business that depends on the uncontrolled breeding and unaccountable disappearance of thousands of dogs every year. That is a situation that is unacceptable and indefensible -- Annette Crosbie
A miracle is an act or event out of the order of nature and unaccountable, as beating a normal hand of four kings and an ace with four aces and a king. -- Ambrose Bierce
A miracle is an act or event out of the order of nature and unaccountable, as beating a normal hand of four kings and an ace with four aces and a king -- Ambrose Bierce
(On The International Criminal Court) "For the victors of the Cold War to submit to an unelected, unaccountable, and almost certainly hostile body such as that envisaged would be the ultimate irony." -- Margaret Thatcher
It consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language. -- Isaac Barrow

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