Quotes About Consequences

The room fell silent as everyone considered what living under the rule of an unstable genius might be like. "Would

Technology . . . is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

Sometimes there are no good decisions, only impossible ones. Which doesn't—necessarily—make those forced to make these decisions evil.

we'll avoid your biggest mistake, by making sure smart phones and social media never comes into being.

Technology . . . is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other." ?—Carrie Snow

You know that's not the entire quote," said Knight. "It's, 'Kill one man and you're a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you're a conqueror. Kill them all, and you're a god.

If births continued and deaths were severely curtailed, overpopulation would soon cause devastating effects.

Technology . . . is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other." —Carrie Snow "Beam

Her timing with men had been bad before. But never this bad.

So if you were hoarding something worthless, it would be a slap on the wrist," said Megan. "But since they found out you were hoarding something of incredible value, you're screwed.

But he had no doubt that any inconvenience felt by Delamater would be redirected his way, ten-fold. And that would be very, very bad.

have to say, I was a little pissed off that you escaped from the Codon." Desh kept his face passive and didn't respond. "You know you cost

Spilling blood to protect the homeland was one thing. But spilling blood, only to then vacate hard-won gains on a whim and leave a vacuum that ended up making the problem far worse, was another.

The history of failure in war can almost be summed up in two words: too late.

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

The history of the failure of war can almost be summed up in two words: too late.

There is a gigantic modern fallacy at work here. For of course people only think that they would have acted better in history because they know how history ended up. People in history didn't – and don't – have that luxury. They made good or bad choices in the times and places they were in, given the situations and shibboleths that they found themselves with.

In some manner with which we still haven't even begun to wrestle, we have created a world in which forgiveness has become almost impossible, in which the sins of the father can certainly be visited upon the son.

It began to behave – in victory – as its opponents once did. When the boot was on the other foot something ugly happened.

translated into English as Icarus Fallen, she suggested that the condition of modern European man was the condition that Icarus would have been in had he survived the fall.

One can reach the gates of hell just as easily by short steps as by large.

It's as if they want to build a car that goes fast enough to escape from its own exhaust.

We're all operating on borrowed time and borrowed money. We need to make a choice.

We don't care where the ball lands, as long as it doesn't land on us.