Quotes About Consequences

Mas o homem que nos atos e palavras se deixa dominar por vão orgulho sem recear a obra da justiça e não cultua propriamente os deuses está fadado a doloroso fim, vítima da arrogância criminosa que o induziu a desmedidos ganhos, a sacrilégios, à loucura máxima de profanar até as coisas santas.

He says, Come unto me, etc., etc., then, by reason of the situation which furnishes the more express understanding, the consequences will always be exposure to danger, perhaps to mortal danger. On the other hand, where all are Christians, the situation is this: to call oneself a Christian is the means whereby one secures oneself against all sorts of inconveniences and discomforts, and the means whereby one secures worldly goods, comforts, profit, etc., etc.

C?s?toriÅ£i-v? ÅŸi o s? regretaÅ£i;nu v? c?s?toriÅ£i,ÅŸi o s? regretaÅ£i;c? faceÅ£i una sau alta,le veÅ£i regreta în aceeaÅŸi m?sur?.RâdeÅ£i de nebuniile acestei lumi,ÅŸi veÅ£i regreta;plângeÅ£i-le,ÅŸi veÅ£i regreta;c? veÅ£i râde sau veÅ£i plânge,veÅ£i regreta în aceeaÅŸi m?sur?.

In an effort to minimize evaporation, Central Asians came to dig these channels deeper and deeper and thus reduce the area exposed to the sun. They also lined them to prevent loss through seepage—both of these being techniques that modern Soviet engineers ignored, with disastrous consequences.

We are not responsible for the mistakes committed by our previous generations. However, if we equate ourselves with them and regard ourselves as their heirs, we must then be ready to also share the responsibility for their mistakes.

He chose to come onto your land uninvited with a weapon in his hand,? he said. ?When a man does that, he consents to his fate and makes you clean of his blood.?

I really know the implications, and you don't. We're not talking about a better breed of catapults or . . . or D&D hit levels.

Sam's father would have warned him that a man who lifts his hand to harm a friend harms himself the deepest.

Life is lived forward but is judged in reverse.

Believe in your own eyes and you'll get into a lot of trouble, hot water, a mess.

In the end, rage, no matter how profoundly justified, destroys the enraged.

The thief's widow had turned him, before she married him, into a thief of a stupid and terrible kind, because she had made him rob himself.

History is unkind to those it abandons, and can be equally unkind to those who make it.

Mr. Eagle, you are not a realized man. That is your weakness and also your power. Before one realizes oneself one has the optimism of ignorance. It can be the saving of one's life. Once realized, one faces the terror of knowing what it is you are and have done...the realized man can have a profound effect on the world about him; he must bear the consequences, and guilt, of that as well...

Pandora, possessed by the unleashed contents of her box.

When the sword of the tongue is drawn, the emperor thought, it inflicts deeper cuts than the sharpest blade.

Perhaps it was wrong to lie with him. Now I have given him what he wanted. Now I have nothing for him, nothing held back, nothing to hold him.

Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected.

By lying, we deny others a view of the world as it is. Our dishonesty not only influences the choices they make, it often determines the choices they can make—and in ways we cannot always predict. Every lie is a direct assault upon the autonomy of those we lie to.

One of the worst things about breaking the law is that it puts one at odds with an indeterminate number of other people. This is among the many corrosive effects of having unjust laws: They tempt peaceful and (otherwise) honest people to lie so as to avoid being punished for behavior that is ethically blameless.

Lies are the social equivalent of toxic waste: Everyone is potentially harmed by their spread.

Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected. But the one lied to almost never shares this view. The moment we consider our dishonesty from the point of view of those we lie to, we recognize that we would feel betrayed if the roles were reversed.

People lie so that others will form beliefs that are not true. The more consequential the beliefs—that is, the more a person's well-being demands a correct understanding of the world or of other people's opinions—the more consequential the lie.

The urge for retribution depends upon our not seeing the underlying causes of human behavior.