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Quotes About Consequences

Adrian: "I've made my position clear, Mr. Skerry. It's not my job to protect people from their own stupidity." Resonator: "And I like to give hand granades to babies ... let's be friends!?
~ Jesse Hajicek
Karma comes after everyone eventually. You can't get away with screwing people over your whole life, I don't care who you are. What goes around comes around. That's how it works. Sooner or later the universe will serve you the revenge that you deserve.
~ Jessica Brody
And you wish to protect a beautiful princess, with whom you have fallen in love. But do you understand how dire the situation is? He life and the lives of her sisters are hanging in the balance. You yourself risk death if you choose this path." "I don't care," Oliver said. He stood up and faced the bishop. "I don't care! I love Petunia, and this is what I'm choosing, right here and now.
~ Jessica Day George
An eye for an eye ... the whole world goes blind" , spoken by Nathan
~ Jessica Jones
The car I drove at a hundred miles per hour was out of control with the steering wheel locked, and I could only turn to the passengers and say, "Well, this is bad.
~ Jessica Simpson
No nos sorprende cuando los dirigentes políticos y los ejecutivos de los negocios toman decisiones que parecen beneficiarnos y que al mismo tiempo son nocivas y peligrosas para la comunidad . Desde luego, si el egoísmo es un pilar en la ética practica contemporánea. No parecen saber que la avaricia (y la sumisión) vuelve a la gente estupida, aun a lo que atañe a su verdadero interés, al interés de sus propias vidas y las vidas de sus parejas y sus hijos.
~ Erich Fromm
The concept of original sin, which weighs upon all future generations, is characteristic of the authoritarian experience. Moral like any other kind of human failure becomes a fate which man can never escape. Whoever has once sinned is chained eternally to his sin with iron shackles, Man's own doing becomes the power that rules over him and never lets him free. The consequences of guilt can be softened by atonement, but atonement can never do away with the guilt.
~ Erich Fromm
There are thousands of Himmlers living among us.
~ Erich Fromm
Everyone saves someone at least once. Just as he kills someone at least once. Even though he may not know it.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
The wisest were just the poor and simple people. They knew the war to be a misfortune, whereas those who were better off, and should have been able to see more clearly what the consequences would be, were beside themselves with joy.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Don't ask about the consequences if you want to do something. Otherwise you'll never do it.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Kättemaksuga üksi saab vähe korda saata. Kättemaks kuulub teise, süngema osa juurde, mis korda tuleb saata, kuid mis tuleb pärast seda?
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Bir emir bu sessiz kiÅŸileri bizim düÅŸman?m?z yapt?. Bir emir onlar? dostumuz yapabilirdi. Hiçbirimizi tan?mayan birkaç kiÅŸi, herhangi bir masan?n çevresinde toplan?p bir yaz?y? imzalad?lar. BaÅŸka zaman olsa bütün dünyan?n hakaretini ve cezas?n? üstüne çekecek olan bu yaz?, bizler için y?llarca en yüksek amaç yerine geçecek.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Bir emir bu sessiz sakin hayalleri bizim düÅŸman?m?z yapt?; bir emir onlar? bizim dostumuz yapabilir. Herhangi bir masa ba??nda, hiçbirimizin tan?mad??? birkaç kiÅŸi taraf?ndan, bir yaz? imzalan?r. BaÅŸka vakit dünyan?n nefret edip en büyük cezalara çarpt?rd??? ÅŸey, insan öldürmek, y?llarca baÅŸ gayemiz olur.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Where would the world be if one brought every man to book? There were thousands of Kantoreks, all of whom were convinced that they were acting for the best—in a way that cost them nothing. And that is why they let us down so badly.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Selles peitubki maailma häda, et me ise ei tunne, mida me korda saadame.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
People who write the false things and cause a disrupt ought to be strung up. They're the real villains
~ Erich Maria Remarque
The wisest were just the poor and simple people. They knew the war to be a misfortune, whereas those who were better off, and should have been able to see more clearly what the consequences would be, were beside themselves with joy. Katczinsky
~ Erich Maria Remarque
The wisest were just the poor and simple people. They knew the war to be a misfortune, whereas those who were better off, and should have been able to see more clearly what the consequences would be, were beside themselves with joy. Katczinsky said that was a result of their upbringing. It made them stupid. And what Kat said, he had thought about.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Ein Befehl hat diese stillen Gestalten zu unsern Feinden gemacht; ein Befehl könnte sie in unsere Freunde verwandeln. An irgendeinem Tisch wird ein Schriftstück von einigen Leuten unterzeichnet, die keiner von uns kennt, und jahrelang ist unser höchstes Ziel das, worauf sonst die Verachtung der Welt und ihre höchste Strafe ruht.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
a butterfly in a West African rain forest, by flitting to the left of a tree rather than to the right, possibly set into motion a chain of events that escalates into a hurricane striking coastal South Carolina a few weeks later?
~ Erik Larson
In his memoir-like history The World Crisis, 1916–1918, he said of Wilson, "What he did in April, 1917, could have been done in May, 1915. And if done then what abridgment of the slaughter; what sparing of the agony; what ruin, what catastrophes would have been prevented; in how many million homes would an empty chair be occupied today; how different would be the shattered world in which victors and vanquished alike are condemned to live!
~ Erik Larson
To Winston Churchill, it was long overdue. In his memoir-like history The World Crisis, 1916–1918, he said of Wilson, "What he did in April, 1917, could have been done in May, 1915. And if done then what abridgment of the slaughter; what sparing of the agony; what ruin, what catastrophes would have been prevented; in how many million homes would an empty chair be occupied today; how different would be the shattered world in which victors and vanquished alike are condemned to live!
~ Erik Larson
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free, and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands; but if we fail then the whole world, including the United States, and all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister, and perhaps more prolonged, by the lights of a perverted science.
~ Erik Larson