Quotes About Consequences

When a man gets angry with his brother and swears at him, when he publicly insults or slanders him, he is guilty of murder and forfeits his relation to God. He erects a barrier not only between himself and his brother, but also between himself and God.

Someone who has managed to build up a great fortune may look back at his achievements with some satisfaction, reflecting proudly, "I am a rich man." But he would do well to reflect, too, on the extent to which those riches are based on lies, deceit, and the overriding of others' interests—negative actions that in the long run will only engender suffering.

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

this Earth. It seems like mankind evolves to a higher state and then they allow power and greed to completely absorb them and what they have learned. Then they are destroyed, and they take many, many steps backward.

Because if you go against your heart and your intuition, it reaches you eventually. Then you have to face it, and usually everyone suffers. So it's better to be truthful, and maybe cause a little pain in the beginning. But to know what your truth is and where you should be is always the best.

In July and August 1914, fewer than fifty individuals, all of them men, made the decisions that took their countries to war.

What am I going to say to my mother tomorrow?" she asked. "Take this in your mouth while you're thinking about it," he answered, pushing her head down on him.

We must choose this, if we have the debt to pay. Murder in one life, and be murdered in the next. Rape in one, be raped in another. We decide if we pay now or later; balancing all that is in the great wheel of life.

58 Cuando vas junto con tu contrario a querellarte ante el magistrado, haz en el camino todo lo posible por librarte de él, no sea que por fuerza te lleve al juez, y el juez te entregue al alguacil, y el alguacil te meta en la cárcel. 59 Porque yo te aseguro que de ella no saldrás, hasta que hayas pagado el último maravedí. 13

Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge.

I would never kill a living thing, although I probably have inadvertently while driving automobiles.

Their only weapon is shame, if the powerful can even feel it.

Better to get away light than get caught heavy.

Shakespeare: "The evil that men do lives after them.

If you let people believe that you're weak, sooner or later you're going to have to kill them.

Then know," Caro said, "that you have to accept both sides of this thing. Enjoy the rewards, accept the losses, do the terrible things you sometimes have to do. Never shed blood you don't have to, but when you have to, harden your heart and do it.

Crime 101: Getting out one job too early puts you on the beach. Getting out one job too late puts you in a cell.

Rich or dead. There's worse choices.

You can't invite wolves to dinner and not expect them to eat.

Also: do not fuck with someone until you know exactly who the fuck you're fucking with. And then don't do it.

This could blow up in everybody's faces, this could be worse than Watergate, worse than Iran-Contra, worse than the little blue dress.

Serving time doesn't make you fit to do anything but serve more time.

Regardless of how far a person runs, a lie will eventually catch up to them.

A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life.