Quotes About Consequences

Imagine how wicked society would be if the fear of God and the fear of civil law were both completely removed.

Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes!

If the woman picks the wrong man, that's not society's problem. That's her problem.

When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed.

Delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared.

Art has political consequences, which is to say, it reorganizes society and creates constituencies of people around it.

.. that a rule, which, in speculation, may seem the most advantageous to society, may yet be found, in practice, totally pernicious and destructive.

Disbelief in futurity loosens in a great measure the ties of morality, and may be for that reason pernicious to the peace of civil society.

Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity

Because I am a deep believer in the civil society, I think we should be prepared to pay the consequences of breaking the law and that is either paying the penalty for it, or leaving the country.

If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us.

You can't run a society or cope with its problems if people are not held accountable for what they do.

Many of us do not believe in capital punishment, because thus society takes from a man what society cannot give.

... the fouling of the nest which has been typical of man's activity in the past on a local scale now seems to be extending to the whole world society.

You cannot run a scociety or cope with it's problems if people are not held accountable for what they do.

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all the possible consequences of their acts.

Destiny is the result of all your actions and the impressions that you have taken in.

Karma moves in two directions. If we act virtuously, the seed we plant will result in happiness. If we act non-virtuously, suffering results.

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

Most people guard against going into the fire, and so end up in it.

She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it.

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

Many men can no more be kept straight by spiritual motives than we can live without policemen.