Quotes About Consequences

The ball is man's most disastrous invention, not excluding the wheel.

Nunca puedes predecir lo que pasará en una pelea. Si eres lo bastante estúpido como para iniciar una, serás culpable de lo que ocurra, sea intencionado o no.

You will be tomorrow morning when I get my hands on you,' Large snapped. 'Minus ten house points for Hufflepuff. Over and out.

As he choked back more tears, James realised that every time he lashed out it was him that got hurt most.

As far as he could tell, he'd stopped one small bunch of bad guys killing a big bunch of bad guys and as a result the good guys got chucked out of their homes by another bunch of bad guys. Did that make him good or bad? James only knew that thinking about it gave him a headache.

The last time you lost your cool like this, you ended up throwing Will Clarke off a rooftop.

Is it true you're James Adams?' a puffed-out little grey shirt holding a tennis racket asked. 'The guy who started the food fight and had sex in the campus fountain?

Have you ever killed anyone?' Ryan asked bluntly. Clark broke into a big smile and shook his head. 'Hagar wouldn't approve.' 'Why not?' Ryan asked. 'You ever seen a dead man paying a bill?

He who is allowed to do as he likes will soon run his head into a brick wall out of sheer frustration.

Maximising the average utility allows a person to kill everyone else if that would make him ecstatic, and so happier than average.

The end of man is knowledge but there's one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it would save him.

Politics is a matter of choices, and a man doesn't set up the choices himself. And there is always a price to make a choice. You know that. You've made a choice, and you know how much it cost you. There is always a price.

Everyone misbehaves,' said Eddie. 'That's nature. Everyone gets away with as much as they can get away with. And the more they can get away with, the more they will.

And yes. They did become very drunk, the three of them. And you're not supposed to be drunk when you get involved in matters such as this: Big Matters, Matters of an Apocalyptic Nature. You're supposed to be coldly sober. And you just can't be coldly sober when you're drunk.

Rationality will not save us.

He argued, in the spirit of Mill, that 'whatever the immediate consequences of a new truth may be, there is a high probability that truth will in the long run lead to better results than falsehood'. This was very much in line with his attack on Moore's argument for following generally accepted rules rather than using individual judgement. However, he conceded that the 'modern prejudice in favour of truth [may be] founded on somewhat insufficient bases'.

They who once engage in iniquitous designs miserably deceive themselves when they think that they will go so far and no farther; one fault begets another, one crime renders another necessary; and thus they are impelled continually downward into a depth of guilt, which at the commencement of their career they would have died rather than have incurred.

Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.

Well," said he, as he left the ELEPHANT, "I have fought contrary to orders, and I shall perhaps be hanged. Never mind: let them!

So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.

As for these people, they vote for what they want, they get what they vote for, and, by God! they deserve nothing better!

When we realize that words can destroy something good, wonderful, and dear, and that by keeping silent we can avoid causing the least damage or harm, it's easy to stay silent.

The "cure," it seemed, had once again been proven to be "worse than the disease.

On the other hand, we do often pursue such things with, at the very least, an unbalanced view of the future. We spend more time envisioning the perks that a promotion will bring than envisioning the headaches it will bring.