Quotes About Consequences

Truth has a habit f emerging just when it can do the most damage.

Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit.

A beggar's mistake harms no one but the beggar. A king's mistake, however, harms everyone but the king. Too often, the measure of power lies not in the number who obey your will, but in the number who suffer your stupidity.

Consequences lost all purchase when they became mad. And desperation, when pressed beyond anguish, became narcotic.

Live or dead, no creature might escape the unfolding of its own actions. He

Pragmatism was a sword that cut through such knots; an action was to be judged by its consequences alone.

The level of my worldly ignorance cannot easily be overestimated." Nor that of the damage that ignorance could do

When one consorts with assassins, one must expect to dance along the edge of a knife once or twice.

Extolling the supremacy of fate, Chanakya says that it is impossible for anyone to overrule it. It is the miracle of fate which can make a king to become a pauper and a pauper to become a king. Whatever God has in store for a man, he has to bear the consequences accordingly.

War is the great deflowerer of youth.

We rarely consider that we're also formed by the decisions we didn't make, by events that could have happened but didn't, or by our lack of choices, for that matter.

We invade your countries, destroy your economies, demolish your infrastructures, murder hundreds of thousands of your citizens, and a decade or so later, we write beautifully restrained novels about how killing you made us cry.

By unrighteousness man prospers, gains what appears desirable, conquer enemies, but perishes a the root.

You cannot go on violating these laws in the name of your nation, yet enjoy their advantage as individuals.

Why did the lamp go out? I shaded it with my cloak to save it from the wind, that is why the lamp went out. Why did the flower fade? I pressed it to my heart with anxious love, that is why the flower faded. Why did the stream dry up? I put a dam across it to have it for my use, that is why the stream dried up. Why did the harp-string break? I tried to force a note that was beyond its power, that is why the harp-string is broken.

Whenever Power removes all checks from its path to make its career easy, it triumphantly rides into its ultimate crash of death.

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

More than anything,' he said, 'people dislike being made to feel stupid, and if you arouse those feelings, you do so at your own cost.

he felt the destruction had by now been earned in full by humanity...

But I was so sure of myself. I believed I could manage my own life. Mud might spatter and spoil other skirts, but not mine. Somehow I believed no harm could come to me because I meant no harm to others. I was defiant and proud because I felt too sure of myself.' "'You are not the first to make that mistake,' he answered gravely. 'We all believe our lives are our own till we find we cannot separate them from other lives.'" -p. 300

If that's what you do to people you love, I can't imagine what you have in store for people you hate.

Just because you refuse to acknowledge something, refuse to look at it or think about it, doesn't mean it's not there, that it doesn't affect you and the choices you make in your life.

I gave you two choices as a test: there are never just two choices. That is a lie to keep you from thinking too deeply.

The thing about reason is that there's a geometry to it. It travels in a straight line, so that slightly different beginnings can lead you to wildly divergent endpoints.