If being recalled is the price for keeping one's promises, then so be it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Promise keeping is a powerful means of grace in a time when people hardly depend on each other to remember and live by their word.
A promise made should be a promise kept.
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
It is easy to make promises - it is hard work to keep them.
Individual companies now have the voluntary responsibility of recalling their own products. While many companies have acted properly and swiftly to recall contaminated goods, the delay between the identification of tainted foods and the company's decision to recall those foods leads to the needless sickness of too many Americans.
Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.
Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
When you make a promise, keep it.
Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
Never make a promise - you may have to keep it.