Quotes About Consequences

I think there are a lot of nutters in the world, and the less we reward them for their nuttery, the better for all of us.

The man was half-insane . . . I saw then what living with something like this could do to you. The obsession had taken over his entire life.

Nobody enjoys accepting that they have reaped what they have sown.

The guilt that had tumbled from Strike seemed to have fallen heavily into her own lap.

A nadie le gusta aceptar que uno recoge lo que ha sembrado.

The trouble with altering the facts to fit the picture is that it's a cumulative exercise. It starts as a game — a bit of a lark really. Then it gets serious, then complicated, then . . . then pleasure becomes pain because you find yourself and everyone else believing the charade — living the lie as if it were the truth.

she had brought harm to him, in the believe that nothing mattered, that no moment had consequences beyond the moment itself. She had agreed to kill him without realizing that he would die".

You wreck your own life and then, very gently, you wreck the lives of those around you.

Under the government of Nature, what you call punishments and rewards are simply consequences. Nature does not punish. Nature does not reward. Nature has no purpose.

Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter

The years forget our errors and forgive our sins, but they punish our inaction with living death.

The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes by little people. It must also reach men who possess themselves of great power and make deliberate and concerted use of it to set in motion evils which leave no home in the world untouched.

When humanity's deafness to simple common sense is allowed to reign, the implications for the world can only be catastrophic.

The innocence of the intention abates nothing of the mischief of the example.

Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them.

A young country does not serve as the pad on which England drew its sketches for the immense Gulags of the twentieth century without acquiring a few marks and scars.

He was afflicted with what I call "Asshole Blindness," where people don't realize or underestimate how dire an asshole problem is, how much they and perhaps others are suffering, and how important it is to get out as soon as possible.

fear of taking responsibility, especially the sense that it is safer to do nothing, or something bad, than the right thing.

I find that if you take the opportunity to throw out a subtle reminder of the core values we are required to adhere to, the a**hole quickly backs up, swallows the words, and rethinks the tactic.

As we saw in chapter 5, research on schoolyard and workplace bullying shows that people who ruminate about getting even, rather than letting it go, suffer negative effects including anxiety, depression, and sleep problems.

Is there a Mrs. Garret?" Charley asked. "They're all three dead," said Phillip. "Dead and buried and gone to hell, likely." "Why do you say that?" Charley asked. "They must have all been terrible sinners to have married our father," said Keenan.

If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least for males, for increasing presence in the gene pool, why do we feel they are wrong? Shouldn't the only morality that evolution produces be the kind Bill Clinton had - being sorry you got caught?

This is an important test of maturity: to seek to avoid error, to accept the consequences of error when it comes (as it surely will), and learn from it and to wipe the slate clean and start afresh, free from feelings of guilt.

History had not led to the triumph of liberalism; it had led to Hitler and Stalin.