Quotes About Consequences

When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.

If someone tests positive for coronavirus, our sport would be stained forever.

People text when they're meant to actually be driving. So imagine what they do when they think the car's got it under control.

Textile manufacturers use complicated chemical and industrial processes to make clothing materials, from cotton to synthetic fibers. And while the environmental consequences aren't always clear, consumption is growing.

Of course texting while driving is a terrible idea.

Anyone who dials a phone while driving is flirting with death. And anyone who texts while driving is insane.

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

No one is going to thank us afterwards for a Brexit that reduces people's quality of life.

Thanks to presidential immunity and executive control of the Justice Department, there are no consequences to executive branch lawbreaking. And when it comes to presidential lawbreaking, the sitting president could literally strangle someone to death on national television and meet with no consequences.

We need to avoid going down a path where we might find the doors slamming shut behind us.

All history, and most especially the history of the 20th century, argues against placing ideas in the saddle and allowing them to ride mankind. Too often, they end up riding individual men and women into mass graves.

The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect.

If you are going to make companies, corporations, actually responsible for the safety of other people's lives, then if they fail in their duty, the only thing to prevent them failing in their duty is the fear that they would be put behind bars.

In foreign policy, the only thing worse than not doing something is doing something that fails or makes the situation worse.

The problem with faerie gifts is that they always come with a price, which is why they are made by the desperate and the foolish.

The problem with forbearance is that it always looks like a good thing to do until it stops working.

Some people figure that if they're part of a gang then they have less of a chance of being killed, because they are in larger numbers. But the problem with this is that it will lead to people doing stuff that they wouldn't usually do.

I strive never to forget the real world consequences of my decisions on individuals, businesses and government.

You can legally lie about the real world to your heart's content, but until some human being is materially damaged, nobody will complain.

Everything is connected, so you can't just live in a Trumpian world and be an isolationist when you're managing government by congressional district or by city. The mentality that you can cut off one area to punish a policy just doesn't work in the real world... it's cutting off your nose to spite your face.

I was born in '72, and my dad was county judge of El Paso from '82 to '86. He was just as independent as he could be, and had an amazing joy in life and in being with people, which, from my perspective as a kid, was that he was always going to do the right thing, and damn the consequences - political or otherwise.

I've taken a lot of time to build up the name Flavor Flav, but this could come tumbling down in 30 seconds. If you want to keep what you worked for hard all your life, then you got to do the right thing in your life.

What is the harm of doing the right thing? What is the harm of doing our job as legislators and making sure we do not stick the entire bankruptcy community with these provisions that do not make any sense?

When I came into office, I could have kicked the can down the road for a little while, or I could do the right thing.