Quotes About Consequences

Elections have consequences. – Gabriel Allon

If you live to seek revenge, dig a grave for two. – Jewish proverb

Our mistakes always come back to haunt us. And eventually all debts come due.

For every terrorist we kill, there's another boy waiting to step forward and pick up the stone or the gun. They're like shark's teeth: break one and another will rise in it's place.

lo que importa no es quien dispara, sino quien paga la bala.

If you live to seek revenge, dig a grave for two. ANCIENT JEWISH PROVERB

These battles of the political theory books and manifestoes did not occur in a vacuum, nor were they without tangible consequences. Their dominating background was the growing heterogeneity of American society in the last quarter of the century: its more diverse and more vocal subcultures, on the one hand, and its steadily growing economic inequalities on the other.

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.

It is certainly to be regretted that we have so many things to do and our business day is so fully occupied that somehow or other we seem to make mistakes which could have been avoided if we had really spent the time necessary to think the matter through to a logical conclusion.

it's possible to go through our time on this ball floating in space without realizing that Fear has been pulling our strings all along. Our inner tyrant has made for us most of our choices—even those we were not aware of making. The fucked-up part about it is that Fear makes it easy for us to go along with this. It doesn't hurt us in an obvious way. It numbs us before injecting us with its poison—a slow form of euthanasia that takes a few decades to come to its conclusion. In

Maybe intentions are the lies in the dark we tell ourselves when who we are falls short of the mark and when we destroy our neighbor we can say 'I never meant any harm.'

îÈ™i irosise tinereÈ›ea în o sut? de ani de dezm?? È™i relaÈ›ii nepotrivite, care o afectaser? atât pe ea, cât È™i averea lor.

Blame is a lazy man's wages.

Speech is oft repented, silence never

The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.

Certain feelings and actions become decisions, rather than the other way around.

In fact, Sauvage believes that the reason Fry is so unknown is precisely because he reveals U.S. complicity in the Holocaust. "We live on two myths—that we didn't know, and that we couldn't do anything even if we did know," Sauvage said to me as soon as I sat down in his office. "This is the religion, and it isn't true. We knew plenty and could have done a lot.

What could possibly go wrong?

If your policy is win at all costs then you are going to hurt people

I don't like it, but my hands are tied. I just want you to know this: if I ever get the chance to betray you, I will. If the opportunity arises to pay you back, I'll take it. You'll never be able to trust me.

two wrongs dont make a right

What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth ? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad.

The only way you can know where the line is, is if you cross it.

Emshandar's problems were his fault. He who wakes the dog must bear the bite, his mother had always said.