Quotes About Consequences

Innocence is a pretty dangerous thing, you know. Revisit Dostoevsky's 'The Idiot' or, for that matter, Greene's 'The Quiet American' to find out how destructive it can be.

I want freedom and I realize that the only way to get it is to quit breaking the law.

For professional athletes, the motives for cheating generally are more obvious: money, fame, and often a low likelihood of being caught. But why would a middle- or back-of-the-pack runner lie or cheat in a race that doesn't even matter?

Certainly science, because of its ability to increase our capacities to do things, raises terrible risks for us all. If it were possible to undiscover nuclear fission, I would be very happy to undiscover it, because of the risks that it puts us all under.

I love food, but I can't bear to read about it, to talk about it, to discuss the consequences and context of how we consume it. And this is more or less how I feel about raising children, too.

The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction.

I don't think the British people really knew the ramifications of what would happen after Brexit or not.

I have to think about the possible ramifications of an early retirement.

When we choose to have an abortion, we must do so understanding the full ramifications of what we are doing. Anything less feels to me to be hypocritical, a selfish abnegation of reality and responsibility.

Ramifications of small decisions can be pretty large.

The public health ramifications of our scandalous open borders are possibly even more dangerous and far-reaching than the economic and political consequences.

You can see what happens when people don't feel they have a chance. You can see the ramifications of that.

I think there are ramifications for having rules when you don't have a problem.

I feel it's important to show that one thing that you do doesn't define you as a human being. It doesn't mean there aren't ramifications or you shouldn't pay for that but its not who you are.

Obesity among young Americans is a serious problem that can have serious ramifications in the long run.

I opened the door for a lot of people, and they just ran through and left me holding the knob.

I spent my 18th birthday in jail. Charges were dropped as long as I promised never to return to the state of Kansas. My parents took me home to Louisiana. I lasted there a week. Then I ran away.

I'm human, and we make mistakes. My biggest mistake was that I was running away from something here in New York and I ran into the wrong hands.

As a person, I am totally obsessed with the choices and decisions we make in our lives and how they dictate the course of our lives. Seemingly random choices that we make end up defining everything.

The plausible outcomes range from the gradual and benign to the more precipitous and damaging.

All policy is a matter of gains and losses, upsides and downsides.

Local government is a gamble that can have disastrous consequences when it fails.

Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.

I am against boycotts in general: boycotts against us as well as anything and everything that can be boycotted.