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Quotes About Consequences

Sin embargo, no había pensado en las consecuencias; en lugar de eso, había vivido el momento tal como debería hacer todo el mundo.
~ Ken Follett
?i am aflat c? exist? hot?râri dificile È™i c?, uneori, nu avem cum s? È™tim ce e bine È™i ce e r?u de f?cut.
~ Ken Follett
He who sups with the devil must use a long spoon.
~ Ken Follett
que había alentado al Ejército Rojo a comportarse como unas bestias enloquecidas en Alemania…
~ Ken Follett
What is wrong with this war is that we are on the wrong side. We are the bad guys. That is why kids dodge the draft; that is why the Vietnamese won't fight; that is why we kill women and children; that is why the generals lie to the politicians, and the politicians lie to the reporters, and the newspapers lie to the public. After that, his
~ Ken Follett
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.
~ Ken Follett
The man who seeks revenge digs two graves.
~ Ken Kesey
there was nothing in the whole world so dreadful as the power of riches wrongly used.
~ Gene Stratton-Porter
Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.
~ Garry Kasparov
Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
~ Seneca the Younger
When you have a person in power who punishes people for speaking their mind, it's truly dangerous.
~ Tim Robbins
Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin.
~ Albert Camus
Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose. [Lat., Imperium flagitio acquisitum nemo unquam bonis artibus exercuit.]
~ Tacitus
Think What You Do When You Run in Debt: You Give to Another Power over Your Liberty
~ Benjamin Franklin
Straying off course is not recognized as a capital crime by civilized nations.
~ Jeane Kirkpatrick
Black power got to moving so fast that we miscalculated the fallout. I certainly have to take some of the responsibility of that; but there was no way we anticipated the response.
~ Cleveland Sellers
Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.
~ Will Durant
Extensive powers not exercised as far as was necessary have, I believe, scarcely ever failed to ruin the possessor.
~ George Washington
Power can be very addictive, and it can be corrosive. And it's important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power, whether it be here or elsewhere.
~ George H. W. Bush
The actions of those in power can have enormous consequences - a price that they themselves almost never have to pay.
~ Barack Obama
The possession of power over others is inherently destructive both to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.
~ George Davis Herron
Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
~ james francis
It is intolerable that it should be in the power of one blockhead to do so much mischief.
~ Charles James
You cannot affirm the power plant and condemn the smokestack, or affirm the smoke and condemn the cough
~ Wendell Berry