Quotes About Consequences

Wilson has observed, "We are not as gods. We're not yet sentient or intelligent enough to be much of anything." Paul Kingsnorth, a British writer and activist, has put it this way: "we are as gods, but we have failed to get good at it.. We are Loki, killing the beautiful for fun. We are Saturn, devouring our children... Sometimes doing nothing is better than doing something.

Such a moral stance makes virtually everyone a sinner and makes hypocrites out of many who are concerned about climate change but still partake in the benefits of modernity

succeeded extravagantly at the expense of other species.

One of the many unintended consequences of the Anthropocene has been the pruning of our own family tree. Having cut down our sister species—the Neanderthals and the Denisovans—many generations ago, we're now working on our first and second cousins. By the time we're done, it's quite possible that there will be among the great apes not a single representative left, except, that is, for us.

where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves.

Intelligent men think up ways to get themselves in tangles a stupid man would never imagine.

If someone means well, but does ill, the ill is still done—and the consequences still exist. Besides, if intent forgives wrong, then any wrongdoer can claim good intent.

My God, she was right. 'You never even stole that money and yet they fire you. I could just take Alva Johnson by the neck and make her eat dog shit.

This is the way of life: the many things we do not know until it is too late.

it was an unspeakably awful thing. And I had not known. This is the way of life: the many things we do not know until it is too late.

And I thought how when William came into money from his grandfather who had profited from the war, and Catherine was still alive at that time, she had said very little about it. But she did say to me, lying on the tangerine couch, not long after this had happened, "It's dirty money. He should give it all away." But William did not give it all away; he became very rich.

So it wasn't me that made him do this, if he did this while married to Joanne and also to Estelle? Then it wasn't because of me? I could not believe this. And I thought about what he had said the night before about choice. He may not have had any choice about this part of him. How do I know?

I said, "But, William, someone had to know this was going to happen! I mean in the government, someone had to know and they looked away.

peace without victory." He said that "victory would mean peace forced upon the loser, a victor's terms imposed upon the vanquished." Such a peace would only breed shame and resentment

The roots of a future war were planted that fateful spring; Wilson's failure to support Japan's highest aspirations would end with bombs dropped on Pearl Harbor.

In Avoca, Pennsylvania, an Austrian American was accused of criticizing the Red Cross. A group of vigilantes tied him up, hoisted him thirty feet in the air, and blasted him with water from a fire hose for a full hour.

What I'm not saying is that all government spending is bad. It's not - far, far from it, but there is no free lunch, as a former colleague of mine used to say. There is no public tooth fairy. Father Christmas does not work on the Treasury staff this year. You can never bail someone out of trouble without putting someone else into trouble.

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.

Revenge is an idiot's game.

The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.

There are all kinds of flight from responsibility. There is a flight into death, a flight into sickness, and finally a flight into stupidity.

Per sempre, voleva aggiungere Fridolin, ma prima ancora che pronunciasse quelle parole, lei gli pose un dito sulle labbra e sussurrò come fra sé: « Non si può ipotecare il futuro »

Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.

This is always the effect of sin; it destroys our peace, robs our joy and brings in its train a consciousness of guilt and a sense of shame.