Quotes About Consequences

A policy of 'naming and shaming' is ineffective if everyone has been named and shamed.

Between notes, he had contemplated means of destroying Myrna Minkoff but had reached no satisfactory conclusion. His most promising scheme had involved getting a book on munitions from the library, constructing a bomb, and mailing it in plain paper to Myrna. Then he remembered that his library card had been revoked.

Inflation does not lubricate trade but by rescuing traders from their errors of optimism or stupidity.

New Zealand needs to balance its environmental responsibilities with its economic opportunities, because the risk is that if you don't do that - and you want to lead the world - then you might end up getting unintended consequences.

I can at least comfort myself with the idea that whatever Ive done Ive helped to nail a lie, and Im coming to think that lying is among the worst of all human failings. Next to actual killing. And experience has made us almost equally good at both of them. I have killed many people and seen many more killed on my orders, Jogajong said. It is what must be paid to buy what we want. What weve been told we want, by liars more skilled than ourselves.

of seatbelts as an opportunity to take up drunk-driving.

I've never seen any subscriber to neo-liberal economics admit the fact, but part of the way in which inequality drives economic progress – in the neo-liberal system – is by making it clear that there are severe consequences for failure. Bankruptcies, dole queues, even people sleeping in the streets; all these are human tragedies, but in the neo-liberal world view, they are also reminders of what happens if you don't work hard enough.

Remember Edouardo? Remember what happened to him when he tried to—" "Edouardo. Edouardo was a fool." "Yes, but the way he died …" "It does not matter, how you die." "But those cuts. What could have done it?" "It does not matter," the other man insisted. He nodded to the

History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose.

are not punished for their sins, but by

Bullshit. Your life?" Rush said sarcastically. "Bullshit. If I lose, I go to prison. If you lose, you go to lunch.

John Lescroart

Under Chairman Mao, every Chinese family was obliged to kill a sparrow a week to stop them eating all the rice. The project was ineffective because sparrows don't eat rice.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments, that will over-balance the satisfaction any one shall propose to himself in the breach of the law.

making laws with penalties of death, and consequently

In many cases it is not one series of consequences will serve the turn, but many different and opposite deductions must be examined and laid together, before a man can come to make a right judgment of the point in question. What then can be expected from men that neither see the want of any such kind of reasoning as this, nor, if they do, know they how to set about it, or could perform it?

And therefore the punishment of those who would not follow him, was to lose their souls, i. e. their lives

Delays breed dangers.

I don't want them hanging a double murder on me. It wouldn't look good on my school record.

Schools in the 21st century are paying a heavy price for the errors of schools and teachers a generation ago. We are being punished for their sins.

have treated you. The ultimate victim of torture is the torturer, the one who inflicts pain and suffering at the cost of their humanity.

The ultimate victim of torture is the torturer, the one who inflicts pain and suffering at the cost of their humanity.

Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot.