Quotes About Consequences

A society that is not willing to demand a life of somebody who has taken somebody else's life is simply immoral.

It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the processnof doing.

A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.

Usted no encuentra, pues, odioso, despreciable, que una mujer abandone a su marido y a sus hijas para seguir a un hombre cualquiera, del que nada sabe, ni siquiera si es digno de su amor? ¿Puede usted realmente excusar una conducta tan atolondrada y liviana en una mujer que, además, no es ya una jovencita y que siquiera por amor a sus hijas hubiese debido preocuparse de su propia dignidad?

What happens is never unpredictable: there are always breaches, carelessness, incompetence, omissions, which have not prevented the occurrence.

t was not illiterate savages, but graduates of the finest educational systems of the West who designed the gas chambers used to burn millions of innocent men, women and children in Germany.

Desconocemos las consecuencias de nuestros actos y de nuestras omisiones, pero somos responsables de ellas.

En otras palabras, la consiste en transformar la humana de algo en una , y en hacer responsables a los actores de la realización de esta tarea y de las consecuencias (así como los efectos colaterales) de su desempeño.

En otras palabras, la individualización consiste en transformar la identidad humana de algo 'dado' en una 'tarea', y en hacer responsables a los actores de la realización de esta tarea y de las consecuencias (así como de los efectos colaterales) de su desempeño.

es muy probable que el último cuarto del siglo en curso pase a la historia como la Gran Guerra de Independencia del Espacio. Lo que sucedió en su transcurso fue que los centros de decisión y los cálculos que fundamentan sus decisiones se liberaron consecuente e inexorablemente de las limitaciones territoriales, las impuestas por la localidad.

Plant the seed whose vine or tree may hang you.

Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

If I do good, I feel good...If I do bad, I feel bad

When you have succeeded in dehumanizing the Negro, when you have put him down, are you quite sure that the demon you have roused will not turn and rend you

Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.

Earp forced Kowalsky into a back room, pulled out a revolver, and told the lawyer to get ready to meet his maker. Kowalsky's jowly face dropped onto his chest and he dozed off. Earp stormed from the room, saying, "What can you do with a man who goes to sleep just when you're going to kill him!

Lieutenant General Lothar von Trotha, who issued an extermination order (Vernichtungsbefehl): "Within the German boundaries every Herero, whether found with or without a rifle, with or without cattle, shall be shot. . . . "Signed The Great General of the Mighty Kaiser, von Trotha.

The American poet Vachel Lindsay declaimed:   Listen to the yell of Leopold's ghost Burning in Hell for his hand-maimed host. Hear how the demons chuckle and yell Cutting his hands off, down in Hell.

During and after the war, though, no one in the Allied countries wanted to be reminded that, only a decade or two earlier, it was the King of the Belgians whose men in Africa had cut off hands. And

Hochschild describes the startling moment when he first learned that forced labor in the Congo had taken eight to ten million lives, making it one of the major killing grounds of modern times.

Only half a dozen years earlier Stanley had deserted from the U.S. Navy, but now he noted with satisfaction how "the incorrigible deserters . . . were well flogged and chained.

he wrote a trenchant warning of the "far-reaching consequences over the wider destiny, not only of South Africa, but of all Negro Africa" that would flow from the fact that Britain had set up the new, independent Union of South Africa with an all-white legislature.

What made it so easy for Haig to demand high casualties was that he chose not to see them. He "felt that it was his duty to refrain from visiting the casualty clearing stations," wrote his son, "because these visits made him physically ill.

So many engineers were seized that factories came to a halt; so many railway men died that some trains did not run; so many colonels and generals were shot that the almost leaderless Red Army was nearly crushed by the German invasion of 1941.