Quotes About Consequences

That was harsh. I didn't think my personality was species dooming. Not necessarily.

If the end doesn't justify the means, what does? (Robert Moses)

A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vain — then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system?

The unchosen thing is what causes the trouble. If you don't do something with the unchosen, it will set up a minor infection somewhere in the unconscious and later take its revenge on you. Unlived life does not just "go away"...

War, undertaken for even justifiable purposes, has often had the principal results of wrecking the country intended to be saved and spreading death and destruction among an innocent civilian population. War should never be undertaken or seriously risked except to protect American liberty.

Reality is what you can get away with.

When the players will never meet again, the strategy of defection is the only stable strategy.

When it comes to freedoms, it is more dangerous to have given for a while than never to have given at all.

El riesgo por temor resulta ser de verdad peligroso y ciertamente temible.

Weathermen pay price for nature's curve balls

You do the best you can and you deal with the consequences. It's all there is.

The problem is that the choice we make in the market don't fully reflect our values as citizens. We might make different choices if we understood the social consequences of our purchases or investments and if we knew all other consumers and investors would join us in forbearing from certain great deals whose social consequence were abhorrent to us.

Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons . . . And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned around on you--where would you hide, . . . the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast--man's laws, not God's--and if you cut them down . . . do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I would give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake."

You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest.

Massage is the only form of physical pleasure to which nature forgot to attach consequences.

There is a what-the-hell moment in life when you feel you have been pre-punished for every sin you'll ever commit.

Doing one fool thing after another is not so terrible when you consider the human proclivity to do several fool things at once.

One must look hard through history to find when a clear understanding of the truth moved anyone to fire the first shot.

I gave commands;Then all smiles stopped together.

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

Planetologist call it the conundrum of unforeseen ecological consequence. I call it the whack-a-mole rule of human meddling. She clasped both hands like a child hammering. WHACK! We change something here. Oops, that makes another problem pop up there where we didn't expect it. WHACK! So, we whack that mole. Oops! We're so smart that we're a menace.

I waive the quantum o' the sin,The hazard of concealing:But, och! it hardens a' within,And petrifies the feeling!

They have cheveril consciences that will stretch.

The tragedy is that the architects, by making a premature decision, multiplied the development effort enormously.