Quotes About Consequences

The Führer's judgement will be proved right - again.' 'Of course it will, Erik.' 'He has never yet been wrong!' 'A man thought he could fly, so he jumped off the top of a ten-storey building, and as he fell past the fifth floor, flapping his arms uselessly in the air, he was heard to say: So far, so good!

When I'm brave and strong, and care for children and the sick and the poor, I become a better person. And when I'm cruel, cowardly, or tell lies, or get drunk, I turn into someone less worthy, and I can't respect myself. That's the divine retribution I believe in

Everything is ultimately the Prime Minister's fault', said Lloyd. 'That's what it means to be the leader

Ninguém está certo o tempo todo, mas, numa guerra, quando um líder se engana, pessoas morrem.

The old men were still running the country. The politicians who had caused millions of deaths were now celebrating, as if they had done something wonderful.

Weißt du denn nicht, dass du die Seele verlierst, wenn du die Wahrheit über dich selbst abstreitest?

The degradation to which you subject others comes back, sooner or later, to haunt you

She was twenty-six years old, her life was ruined, and it was her own fault.

The degradation to which you subject others comes back, sooner or later, to haunt you, Maud thought.

Because all this stuff about military targets is absolute rubbish. There's no point in bombing German factories, because they just rebuild them. So we're targeting large areas of dense working-class housing. They can't replace the workers so fast." Lowther looked shocked. "That would mean it's our policy to kill civilians.

people who were polite to his mistress. Lloyd George spoke to the group. "That German ship delivered the guns to Mexico after all. It simply went to another port and quietly unloaded. So nineteen American troops died for nothing. It's a terrible humiliation for Woodrow Wilson.

Fitz probably had half a dozen bastards around the world, but Ethel's was the only one he knew of for sure.

An apology is designed to make the offender feel okay so that he can do it again. Don't be sorry." Kincaid tried to gather the shreds

Nor would he care what the target was. If they bombed Chile, it would be the same as bombing New York.

I believe that what I do becomes part of me,' she said. 'When I'm brave and strong, and care for children and the sick and the poor, I become a better person. And when I'm cruel, or cowardly, or tell lies, or get drunk, I turn into someone less worthy, and I can't respect myself. That's the divine retribution I believe in.

German women have to make hard choices. We're paying for the easy choices German men made fifteen years ago. Men such as my father, who thought Hitler would be good for business, and Heinrich's father, who voted for the Enabling Act. The sins of the fathers are visited on the daughters.

La moralidad de Tolstói. Hacer el bien tal vez no te haga feliz, pero hacer el mal seguro que te hará desgraciado. Ella

El artículo 231 del tratado decía: «Los gobiernos aliados y asociados afirman, y Alemania acepta, que Alemania y sus aliados son responsables de haber causado todas las pérdidas y los daños a los que se han visto sujetos los gobiernos aliados y asociados, así como sus ciudadanos, como consecuencia de la guerra que les fue impuesta por la agresión de Alemania y sus aliados».

If you start a witch hunt, you have to find some witches.

He knew that saying, and he delivered the punch line: "But all the other ways are worse.

Every man who ever robbed or raped or murdered had a mother, and many had wives who loved them and children who needed them. But they killed other women's husbands, and sold other men's children into slavery, and took other people's life savings to spend in alehouses and brothels. They must be punished.

I've never told anyone about that letter," he said quietly. "I know," Thomas replied. "If you had, you'd be dead.

When the general staff closed their eyes to bad news, men died.

Las vejaciones a las que sometes a los demás regresan, tarde o temprano, para torturarte»