Quotes About Consequences

Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction.

profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.

As words have an effective power of their own, curses reported against someone might turn against the speaker.

You must be a power on earth, and must therefore accept all the consequences of this position.

How could any responsible leader have ignored the Iraqi threat? If we had not acted, Saddam Hussein and his sons would still be in power.

I wish for many reasons flying had never been invented.

Every power draws its ultimate consequences at every moment.

Who enslaves another's manhood with weak human power alone, Lays a heavier yoke of bondage thoughtlessly upon his own.

Well, when you look at a lot of science fiction novels they're asking questions about power. There are questions about what it means to have power and what are the long-term consequences of power.

How heavy is the toll of sins and wrong that wealth, power and prestige exact from man.

Money often costs too much, and power and pleasure are not cheap.

Power in the hands of the stupid is often a dangerous thing. Hitler proved it.

If this power could be used for good, it wouldn't be this power.

It is from the power of taxation being in the hands of those who can throw so great a part of it from their own shoulders, that it has raged without a check.

The key things are about power and about growing up and realizing as you grow up that there are consequences for the choices you make, especially when you get seduced by power.

We the people, so to speak, need to realize that if we can keep ourselves fed, we might get through this long dark tunnel of power down, and mitigate the consequences of CO2.

Knowledge has a great power. Therefore, unethical use of knowledge can be extremely harmful.

Be very chary of telling your hoarded secrets. Many lose all power once they have been divulged.

What insanity would lead me to believe that I possess the power, much less the aptitude to manipulate all of the consequences out of all of my decisions?

we were nothing more than actions to reactions - helpless against our own fate. It's true. I react and others pay.

Just because you have power, doesn't mean you should use it, especially for the wrong reasons.

The politician's prayer is: May my words be ever soft and low, for I may have to eat them.

Those who pray for your downfall are concentrating negative thoughts towards you, without taking cognisance of the slippery ground in which they are standing, which could lead to their downfall.

Please, O ye Lord, keep Jim Bakker behind bars.