Quotes About Consequences

The economic and marketing forces of modern society have engineered an environment… that maximize[s] consumption at the long-term cost of well-being," a study in the Journal of Affective Disorders concluded in 2012. "In effect, humans have dragged a body with a long hominid history into an overfed, malnourished, sedentary, sunlight-deficient, sleep-deprived, competitive, inequitable, and socially-isolating environment with dire consequences.

In effect, humans have dragged a body with a long hominid history into an overfed, malnourished, sedentary, sunlight-deficient, sleep-deprived, competitive, inequitable, and socially-isolating environment with dire consequences.

Some of these people have been heading there, unavoidably, for months; others made a bad choice just a few days ago.

humans have dragged a body with a long hominid history into an overfed, malnourished, sedentary, sunlight-deficient, sleep-deprived, competitive, inequitable, and socially-isolating environment with dire consequences." The

Capitalism works only when institutions are forced to absorb the consequences of the risks that they take on.

When you work under the cloud of anxiety, the best strategy is to play it safe, because if (when!) it fails, you'll be blameless.

If you try to steal the giant's lunch, the giant is likely to eat you for lunch.

Greh, razmišljao je, nije ono što se obi?no misli da jeste; greh nije krasti i govoriti laži. Greh je kada ?ovek surovo gazi život drugog ?oveka , ne misle?i na to kakve rane ostavlja za sobom.

Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sell eternity to get a toy? For one grape who will the vine destroy?

Oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths.

She knew she'd wounded him when he'd least expected it, and her satisfaction lasted until the door had closed behind him. Once he was gone, it ebbed away along with her anger, leaving her with naught but the ashes and embers of a dying hearth fire.

Richard forced him from his sickbed, broke his power, his pride. But you, John, you broke his heart. I truly wonder which be the greater sin.

Fear did make people cautious; rage such as this was dangerous, was all too apt to lead to disaster

A man just realizing the fatal extent of his own folly was not likely to be all that rational.

Simon said nothing, thinking of all the good men who'd died because this inept, faithless fool had been born a King's son.

One of the most powerful aspects of delusion, or ignorance, is the belief that what we do does not really matter.

There is so much we just can't see or know right now, including precisely how our actions will ripple out.

with every action we take, we send love or suffering into the web that connects us.

Keeping secrets is a consequential act for all involved.

When a marauder destroys your house and takes away your cash and jewellery , his responsibility for his actions far exceeds that of the servant who opened door to him, whether out of fear, cupidity or because he simply he didn't know any better.

As someone once said about water pollution, we all live downstream. We are all interconnected, and we can no longer afford the luxury of not thinking about the rest of the planet in anything we do.

There are no victimless colonial actions: everything the British did echoes down the ages.

One cannot take revenge upon history; history is its own revenge

It's a shame you have to go down for someone else. You don't seem like such a bad kid.