Quotes About Consequences

The origin of the Church's holiness, as we have seen, is entirely outside itself; the consequences of this are that, first, it is manifest as a hearing of the gospel's promise and command, and, second, that its sign is penance, not perfection.

A man must properly pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra had to be subsidized.

Black magic never stops. What goes from you comes to you. Once you start this shit, you gotta keep it up. Just like the utility bill. Just like the grocery store. Or they kill you. You got to keep it up. Two, five, ten, twenty years.

It has nothing to do with rank. Men like them never have power. They're riders. Much later the Americans turned the rider into a cowboy, but he's much older than America. He's the man in folktales who comes to take you away on his horse. Not to his palace; he doesn't have one. He lives in a tent in the forest. He's never learnt to count— If he sells clothes in a street market, I'd have thought he could count! Prices, yes, consequences, no.

The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences.

That's the problem with leadership cults. They're red hot on getting shit done, once the big man has spoken, but not so good at weighing up whether that shit should have been done in the first place.

There are a million roads into hell, but not one road out of it.

People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale.

Regular monitoring both of behavioural progress and of consequences is of course necessary if the organism is to learn.

the consequences of some behaviour are experienced as pleasurable or painful, the quicker and more persistent is the ensuing learning likely to be.

Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction.

In truth, much of human social life—our morality, our relationships—revolves around challenges posed by intertemporal choice.

He who sells what isn't his'n must buy it back or go to prison.

It is foolish to think that you can withdraw from the Exchange after you have tasted the sweetness of the honey.

Every dog has one free bite. A dog cannot be presumed to be vicious until he has proved that he is by biting someone.

Business people who are otherwise meticulous in their observance of the law seem to regard copyright infringement about as seriously as they regard jaywalking.

The road of denial leads to the precipice of destruction

So please don't forget that considering the probabilities of future returns only begins the decision-making process. Decisions have consequences. If the consequences of being badly wrong about future returns would imperil your financial future, be conservative.

Dr. Henry Templeton got the drop on me after I killed his grandfather before he was born. Apparently, that wasn't enough to stop the bastard.

Hero-worship is innate to human nature, and it is founded on some of our noblest feelings,—gratitude, love, and admiration.—but which, like all other feelings, when uncontrolled by principle and reason, may easily degenerate into the wildest exaggerations, and lead to most dangerous consequences.

God does not avenge certain crimes in this world, but postpones punishment to the next, to deal with them all the more severely; conversely

Now, if any one should object, that it is unjust for the innocent   to bear the punishment of another's sin, I answer, whatever gifts God   had conferred upon us in the person of Adams he had the best right to   take away, when Adam wickedly fell.

Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.

The two Old Men move beyond a rigid code of ethical prescriptions, with their almost inhumane consequences, into a more compassionate situational or occasional ethics, where there are no established formulas and fewer binding directives, where the individual always assumes responsibility for his or her actions.