Quotes About Consequences

If only he hadn't gone out with the Klan!

Now for the first time since the barbecue she realized just waht she had brought on herself. The thought of this strange boy whom she hadn't really wanted to marry getting into bed with her, when her heart was breaking with an agony of regret at her hasty action and the anguish of losing Ashley forever, was too much to be borne.

She'd make them sorry. She'd show them. She didn't quite see how she'd show them, but she'd do it all the same. She'd hurt them worse than they hurt her.

If the people who started wars didn't make them sacred, who would be foolish enough to fight?

you didn't do these things, the other matrons talked about you and then your reputation was ruined and your family disgraced.

And apologies, once postponed, became harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.

Just think, Scarlett, a half-million dollars, if you'd only restrained your fiery nature and not rushed into wedlock again!

It will serve you right if that sly piece does accept one of you," she said. "Or maybe she'll accept both of you, and then you'll have to move to Utah, if the Mormons'll have you—which I doubt…. All that bothers me is that some one of these days you're both going to get lickered up and jealous of each other about that two-faced, little, green-eyed baggage, and you'll shoot each other. But that might not be a bad idea either.

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.

If technology is a drug – and it does feel like a drug – then what, precisely, are the side-effects?

Technology is basically neutral. It's kind of like a hammer. The hammer doesn't care whether you use it to build a house, or whether a torturer uses it to crush somebody's skull.

There are downsides to every technology. Fire kept us warm, but also burned down our villages.

Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.

We're in a new world. We're in a world in which the possibility of terrorism, married up with technology, could make us very, very sorry that we didn't act.

Any new technology, if it's used by evil people, bad things can happen. But that's more a question of the politics of the technology.

Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don't have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.

Technology will move faster than governments, so don't legislate before you understand the consequences.

Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive to do it, does not make it right.

Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects.

There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.

Those who live by electronics die by electronics. Sic semper tyrannis.

If those of us in positions of responsibility fail to do everything in our power to protect the right of privacy, we risk something far more valuable than money. We risk our way of life.

If we have learned anything at all in this century, it is that all new technologies will be put to use, sooner or later, for better or worse, as it is in our nature to do.