Quotes About Consequences

One of the worst things about breaking the law is that it puts one at odds with an indeterminate number of other people. This is among the many corrosive effects of having unjust laws: They tempt peaceful and (otherwise) honest people to lie so as to avoid being punished for behavior that is ethically blameless. 

Uno de los principales problemas del mentiroso es que debe seguir el rastro de sus mentiras.

Lies beget other lies.

The urge for retribution, therefore, seems to depend upon our not seeing the underlying causes of human behavior. Despite

When Ruth spots a man she likes, she gets him drunk, strips off his clothes, and hops into bed with him. When he wakes up the next morning, he has no choice but to marry her. And

In "A Problem from Hell," I had highlighted the work of Albert Hirschman, the Princeton economist who published the landmark book The Rhetoric of Reaction in 1991. Hirschman's thesis was that those who didn't want to pursue a particular course of action tended to argue that a given policy would be futile ("futility"), that it would likely make matters worse ("perversity"), or that it would imperil some other goal ("jeopardy").

Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.

Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win

Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may properly be charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.

Many a man has been ashamed of his wicked attempts, when he has been repulsed, that would never have been ashamed of them, had he succeeded.

They will very probably, by remembring past mistakes, avoid many inconveniencies into which forgetfulness will run you lively ones.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

And I had done a hellish thing, And it would work 'em woe: For all averred, I had killed the bird That made the breeze to blow. Ah wretch! said they, the bird to slay, That made the breeze to blow!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

First you broke the rules by gambling. Then you threw a game. You fucking threw a game," he said with heat. "For money. You robbed your own team of a sure-win Super Bowl. You were in bed with . . . with gangsters, for crissake. Do you think anybody would allow you near kids, young players?

people, who "dig their grave with their teeth.

Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

En mi casa, cada vez que se pronunciaba algo cierto, las consecuencias se hacían insoportables: la familia se resquebrajaba. La vida se volvía más difícil. Y hacía falta volver a nuestras mentiras y nuestros silencios para recobrar la calma

I just can't. I'm married. I made my bed and now I have to lie in it.

It was the only secret I kept from her and eventually it became impossible to fix. With a secret like that, at some point the secret becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.

When will people learn that just because you can make something doesn't mean you should?

what if he was like his father, with that threatening kind of anger, the kind that was always simmering, the kind that could boil over at any time and hurt everyone in the way? The apologies afterward never healed the damage.

I suppose I could let bygones be bygones, forgive and forget, yadda yadda. But where's the fun in that? These pretty little bitches got everything I ever wanted, and now I'm going to make sure they get exactly what they deserve. Does that make me sound awful? Sorry, but as every pretty little liar knows, sometimes the truth's ugly-and it always hurts. I'll be watching.... Mwah! -A

Before you enbark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.