Quotes About Consequences

Peace punishes mistakes without rewarding brilliance.

They've lost the initiative, which means they've lost the war." Gurney

ecology was the science of understanding consequences.

You cannot go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those who come after. The physical qualities of a planet are written into its economic and political record. We have the record in front of us and our course is obvious.

O poder costuma isolar aqueles que o detêm em demasia. Por fim, acabam perdendo o contato com a realidade... e tombam.

Zaten vereceÄŸim ÅŸeyleri çalmak m? istiyorsun?

completely accurate and total prediction is lethal.

There exists a limit to the force even the most powerful may apply without destroying themselves. Judging this limit is the true artistry of government. Misuse of power is the fatal sin. The law cannot be a tool of vengeance, never a hostage, nor a fortification against the martyrs it has created. You cannot threaten any individual and escape the consequences

Existe un límite a la fuerza que hasta los más poderosos pueden aplicar sin destruirse a sí mismos. Calcular dicho límite es el auténtico arte de gobernar. El mal uso del poder es un pecado fatal. La ley no puede ser un instrumento de venganza, nunca un rehén y tampoco un refugio contra los mártires que ha creado. Uno no puede amenazar a un individuo y librarse de las consecuencias. Muad'Dib sobre la ley, Comentarios de Stilgar

Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.

You cannot go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those things who come after.

Knowledge of mistakes taught him long-term corrections. He had to be constantly aware of consequences. If consequences were lost or concealed, lessons were lost.

a man must permit his deeds and his words to agree. When your actions describe a system of evil consequences, you should be judged by those con sequences and not by your explanations.

Because of the one-pointed Time awareness in which the conventional mind remains immersed, humans tend to think of everything in a sequential, word-oriented framework. This mental trap produces very short-term concepts of effectiveness and consequences, a condition of constant, unplanned response to crises. —LIET-KYNES THE ARRAKIS WORKBOOK

Mentats share the fallibilities of those who use them," she said. "The human mind, as is the case with the mind of any animal, is a resonator. It responds to resonances in the environment. The mentat has learned to extend his awareness across many parallel loops of causality and to proceed along those loops for long chains of consequences

The trouble with some kinds of warfare (and be certain the Tyrant knew this, because it is implicit in his lesson) is that they destroy all moral decency in susceptible types. Warfare of these kinds will dump the destroyed survivors back into an innocent population that is incapable of even imagining what such returned soldiers might do. -Teachings of the Golden Path, Bene Gesserit Archives

Storms beget storms. Rage begets rage. Revenge begets revenge. Wars beget wars.

The historical system of mutual pillage and extortion stops here on Arrakis," his father said. "You cannot go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those who come after.

What price will you pay for that suppression? Will you accept your own extinction? —THE STOLEN JOURNALS

You had to pick and choose, discreetly animating the past. And was that not the purpose of consciousness, the very essence of being alive? Select from the past and match it against the present: Learn consequences.

few understand the ultimate peril to humankind—that false sense of freedom from responsibility for your own actions.

You cannot go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those who come after.

Gördükleri kar??s?nda donup kalmak, hiç k?m?ldamamak isterdi; ama bu da birtak?m sonuçlar doÄŸuracak bir eylemdi.

Din cauza percepÈ›iei unidirecÈ›ionale a Timpului în care r?mâne cufundat? mintea convenÈ›ional?, oamenii au tendinÈ›a de a considera orice lucru conform unei scheme continue, definit? prin cuvinte. Aceast? capcan? mental? produce concepte de eficien?? È™i consecinÈ›e pe termen foarte scurt, ceea ce genereaz? condiÈ›ia unor reacÈ›ii invariabile È™i nepreg?tite pentru orice criz?.