Quotes About Consequences

In adaptive terms, belief has been extraordinarily useful. It is, after all, by believing various propositions about the world that we predict events and consider the likely consequences of our actions. Beliefs are principles of action: whatever they may be at the level of the brain, they are processes by which our understanding (and misunderstanding) of the world is represented and made available to guide our behavior.

WHICH way should the balance swing? Assuming that we want to maintain a coherent ethical position on these matters, this appears to be a circumstance of forced choice: if we are willing to drop bombs, or even risk that pistol rounds might go astray, we should be willing to torture a certain class of criminal suspects and military prisoners; if we are unwilling to torture, we should be unwilling to wage modern war.

the United States government will not tolerate any disrespect for the holy Koran." What form our government's intolerance will take remains unspecified. I await a knock on the door.

But you would not know this from reading Chomsky. For him, intentions do not seem to matter. Body count is all.

Without free will, sinners and criminals would be nothing more than poorly calibrated clockwork

Getting angry can sometimes be like leaping into a wonderfully responsive sports car, gunning the motor, taking off at high speed and then discovering the brakes are out of order.

I broke up with her to avoid getting into a serious relationship with her, and now it

No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That's already been taken care of: A Man Who Destroys His Own Home Shall Inherit the Wind.

If you think, you are late. If you are late, you use strength. If you use strength you get tired. And if you get tired, you die!

Strength isn't about bearing a cross of grief or shame. Strength comes from choosing your own path, and living with the consequences.

One of the happiest consequences of the absence of government...is the development of individual strength that inevitably follows.

Fortunately for themselves and the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they believe. Nearly all our disasters come of a few fools having the "courage of their convictions."

It's being willing to walk away that gives you strength and power - if you're willing to accept the consequences of doing what you want to do.

It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces.

We fool ourselvesinto thinkingwe're strongthen complainthe rest of our livescrippled bythe consequences.

When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself.

A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.

If I make a wrong decision, I worry what might have been. I stress out over very insignificant things.

Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.

When success and incompetence meet, disaster is not far away.

The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

Success has killed more men than bullets.