Quotes About Consequences

Trump did not stop the "American carnage." He unleashed it.

Definition of laying: you get cut sooner or later.

For resentments of any nature bring their fruit in the physical.

Suppose a boy steals an apple From the tray at the grocery store, And they all begin to call him a thief, The editor, minister, judge, and all the people – «A thief», «a thief», «a thief», wherever he goes. And he can't get work, and he can't get bread Without stealing it, why the boy will steal. It's the way people regard the theft of an apple That makes the boy what he is.

Henry got me with child, Knowing that I could not bring forth life Without losing my own. In my youth therefore I entered the portals of dust.

If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one.

It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness.

People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead.

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

Sex gets people killed, put in jail, beaten up, bankrupted, and disgraced, to say nothing of ruined -- personally, politically, and professionally. Looking for sex can lead to misfortune, and if you get lucky and find it, it can leave you maimed, infected, or dead. Other than that, it's swell: the great American pastime.

Es una cuestión de vigas y de columnas. Lo siento. Pero así es como pienso el mundo. Si intento quitar la viga principal se me derrumba el edificio. Y no quiero. Sobre todo porque no quiero lastimar a los que viven en él. A nadie. Este edificio que construí: ¿puede albergar una habitación secreta?

A veces es asombroso el daño que podemos causar sin proponérnoslo

Guns don't kill people; people kill people. Of course, people with guns kill more people. But that's only natural. It's hard. But it's fair.

The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses.

If the end does not justify the means - what can?

We are caught," continued the good doctor, "in the iron treads of a technological juggernaut. A mindless machine. With a breeder reactor for a heart.

Yes, I know, if the American Indians had enforced such a policy none of us pale-faced honkies would be here. But the Indians were foolish, and divided, and failed to keep our WASP ancestors out. They've regretted it ever since.

Sincerity doesn't mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.

Effective students and creative innovators regularly strive to uncover the unintended consequences of a lesson learned or a new idea.

If you can't face Hiroshima in the theatre, you'll eventually end up in Hiroshima itself

Your law always does more harm than crime, and your morality is a form of violence.

Thus sometimes we watch individuals acting for their own ends with little thought of their effect on society at large.

It's not nice to fool Mother Nature!