Quotes About Consequences

We took the Bible and prayer out of public schools, now we're having weekly shootings practically.

Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer.

I cannot love thee; thou 'rt worse than thy brother. Go, say thy prayers, child, and ask God's pardon. I doubt thy mother and I must rue that we ever reared thee!

When the gods are angry with a man they give him what he asks for.

True obedience is the refusal to compromise in any regard our relationship with God, regardless of the consequences.

Plutonium has a quite extraordinary relationship with people. They made it, and it kills them.

Indeed, I did have a relationship with Miss Lewinsky that was not appropriate. In fact, it was wrong.

We cannot put a noose around another man's neck without first hanging ourselves.

La conciencia evita cometer atrocidades. Pero las atrocidades cometidas regularmente anulan la conciencia.

She slapped Kestrel's face. Without thinking twice, Kestrel slapped her back, as hard as she could. The young woman burst into tears. The servant saw this, aghast. "Baby!" She exclaimed. "Oh, my poor baby!" "You've been kind to me," said Kestrel, "and you're very beautiful, but if you hit me again I'll kill you.

Cada invento de la modernidad nos llega como sacralizado por la idea de que toda novedad supone un avance. Nadie duda que los autos de hoy son mejores que los autos de ayer: pocos piensan que la profileración de los autos está cambiando por un plato de orgullo y comodidad el oxígeno el planeta y el derecho a la capa de ozono

A good End cannot sanctifie evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.

To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.

Not to be provok'd is best: But if mov'd, never correct till the Fume is spent; For every Stroke our Fury strikes, is sure to hit our selves at last.

Authentic humans don't show the perfect, chessmaster appreciation of consequences that von Neumann's theory demands. Instead, decision makers resort to heuristics, or mental shortcuts, to arrive at quick, intuitive choices.

Flipping the gains to losses flips the types of behavior. When losses are likely, reckless gambles become acceptable (lower left cell).

Even if we, as northerners, choose to ignore this history, the victims' descendants will not

There are no rewards or punishments -- only consequences.

Wars have an unpleasant habit of evolving in ways that none of the participants anticipated. When, in the summer of 1914, Europe resounded with cries of "A Berlin!" or "Nach Paris!", no one imagined the Somme, or Verdun, or the starvation blockade of Germany that killed 750,000 civilians.

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.

This leads to the central dilemma of Fourth Generation war: what works for you on the physical (and sometimes mental) level often works against you at the moral level.

You may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking itself.

Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week?Or sells eternity to get a toy?For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy?

When my tongue blabs, then let mine eyes not see.