Quotes About Consequences

In the last 13 years, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, when compared to our two world wars, Korea, and Vietnam, have not resulted in staggering numbers of Americans killed. But the deaths of non-Americans as a consequence of our sanctions, invasions, and bombings are numbered in the hundreds of thousands. We may not be counting, but the Muslim world is. Recipients of such violence and their families have long memories.

Sin brings about both spiritual death and physical death.

Reaching out to any fellow ghetto kids is an act he puts in the same category as doing drugs: the initial rush of warmth and euphoria puts you on a path to ruin.

We felt it was really a dangerous world where you got punished for doing nothing.

Contemporary capitalism brings everything we do, touch, and are, increasingly under the imperative for profit, causing incessant change with little regard for human and environmental consequences.

When any individual or collection of individuals acts in disobedience to the moral order, short-term gratification may be experienced; but such behavior produces an inevitable deterioration of the personality and leads to a long term loss of what is truly worthy.

Furthermore, as evangelical pastor and Republican candidate for Congress in 2018 Robb Ryerse says: "To vote for him because he sees the political expediency of supporting restrictions on abortion [Trump supported abortion before he ran for president] is a Faustian deal with the devil that is ultimately more likely to exact greater cost than reward.

Persons sin by participating in evil systems when they understand, at least to some degree, that the system displeases God but fail to act responsibly to change things.

John W. Hinckley

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

If you drop a Bible from a height you can kill a field mouse; so maybe the Bible isn't all good.

It has often been our best instincts, not our worst, that have led us to do harm in the world

We prefer to imagine brutal wars and atrocities as events that "just happen" every now and then, much like tornadoes or lightning strikes; this metaphor suggests that we can't generalize from them, since they are radically discontinuous with ordinary life. But wars and atrocities do not "just happen": societies and individuals slide into them, little by little, one tiny decision or omission at a time. (p214)

My point here is not that the Iraq War was a bad idea in the first place (though it certainly was). My point is that this cynical, foolish, arguably illegal war might still have come right in the end—if only we had tried a little less hard to fix everything that struck us as broken.

Time and time again, they all say the same thing. The worst punishment is losing your respect and disappointing you and taking away their ability to communicate with their peers.

Se todas as Annas Kariêninas soubessem o que as aguarda", ela escreveu, "fugiriam dos prazeres efêmeros, que jamais são nem podem de fato ser prazeres, porque nada que é ilegal chega a constituir a felicidade".

Why now that he's sober and thoughtful, and living as a good man, does he get in the worst trouble of his life?

ago AIM patrol had caught some towhead Wisconsin boys trying to rob a liquor store. 'They came down hard on those boys,' he said to Hetta. 'You could call it cruel and unusual.' 'Dad? What'd they do?' 'Made them call their moms.' 'So, like, it was Hi, Mom, come get me I got caught looting?

You can't get over things you did to other people as easily as the things they did to you.

You can't get over things you do to other people as easily as you get over things they do to you.

If you fall down those stairs and break both of your legs, don't come running to me!

After conscientiously tasting fritters every day for a month Lola had put on two pounds! Her little belt bore witness to the disaster, she found herself obliged to move on to the next notch. She burst into tears.