Quotes About Consequences

We are trying to learn from the consequences of one's peers' actions.

A lot of times losing a game is not taking care of the football, foolish penalties.

It isn't something I'm out there looking to do - take minor penalties.

One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty.

The decision to use the atom bomb on Japanese cities, and the consequent buildup of enormous nuclear arsenals, was made by governments, on the basis of political and military perceptions.

With experience, you understand expectations, you understand consequences, but sometimes it gets a little bit hard, especially for me, that I'm a perfectionist - I want to analyse everything. And sometimes it's most important to just let go and trust your instincts. This is what I need to do more of.

There are always benefits and good things, bad things that come out of every performance.

I don't believe anything is truly off limits, but as a performer, one has to know that people might be offended, and there are consequences.

Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

Perhaps at a later point important developments will be traced back to September 11. But for now we do not know which of the many scenarios will actually hold in the future.

We demonize our enemies at our own peril.

Bilingualism is a great asset for any individual, but it has perilous consequences for a nation.

Perjury is the basest and meanest and most cowardly of crimes. What can it do? Perjury can change the common air that we breathe into the axe of an executioner.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

The British especially have no excuse for forgetting that empire is a most complex and persistent beast. And it has claws.

I want to warn young people who lend their ears to radicals and who play around with the music from Lusaka - they will end up inside the bear's fur coat, but they will no longer be able to live.

As thou hast sown, so shall thou reap.

As thou hast sown, so shalt thou reap.

He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

The greatest penalty of evildoing - namely, to grow into the likeness of bad men.

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.