Quotes About Consequences

When I was a child," Theodora said lazily, "—'many years ago,' Doctor, as you put it so tactfully—I was whipped for throwing a brick through a greenhouse roof. I remember I thought about it for a long time, remembering the whipping but remembering also the lovely crash, and after thinking about it very seriously I went out and did it again.

Anything you raise by the way of spirits you have to put back yourself.

Veniamo tutti misurati, buoni e cattivi, dal male che facciamo agli altri. Io avevo creato un mostro e l'avevo lasciato libero di andare in giro per il mondo, e – poiché l'ammissione è, dopotutto, il dolore più crudele – ammetto che avevo visto tutto con chiarezza e lucidità.

But it's as my mother, bless her, says: When a madman breaks a window, it's never his own….

Never let a husband off the leash. Not even a carpenter knows where the chips will fly.

Meanwhile, I'm having stomach trouble. It shouldn't happen to you but all that iced cream has done me no good.

Human life should not be considered as the proper material for wild experiments.

He was saying that perhaps it was a mistake to bring human beings into a world that had such a strong possibility of becoming, in their lifetimes, a bleak and terrifying if not wholly unlivable place.

Later many people would say that if the schools had been closed right away, lives might have been saved. But at the time people argued that you couldn't just close the schools, because so many parents worked. If they had to stay home to take care of their kids, a lot of them would lose income, maybe even their jobs. Not to mention that businesses were already shorthanded because of all the employees out sick. Closing the schools might just make things worse.

You must have known it yourself, Erlend- a thicket of briers and thorns and nettles had you sowed around you- how could you draw a young maid in to your side and she not be torn and wounded and bleeding-" –p. 93

They who have loved one another with the fieriest desire come in the end to be as two vipers biting each other's tails.

God grant,' he said, 'that he may learn to understand in time that whoso is minded to do as he himself wills will soon enough see the day when he will find he has done that which he had never willed.' 

Years later I would realize that this was one of the worlds great problems, that people often allow themselves not to think. They choose not to think, and that's how the whole world gets into trouble.

seperate morality from its effects, and you will see that everyone regards ias a nuisance, an annoying brake on their freedom of action.

An ethic gone wrong is an essential preliminary to the sweat-shop or the concentration camp and the death march.

Surely, he thought, next to a battle lost there is nothing so dreadful as a battle won.

Podían los muchachos ser culpados por los pecados de sus progenitores? Ciertamente no eran ellos los responsables

It's easy to pay with the blood of others.

The means, it is said, will be justified by the end; but it is the means which define it, and if it is contradicted at the moment that it is set up, the whole enterprise sinks into absurdity.

Trudno bowiem m??czy?nie oceni? ogromne znaczenie dyskryminacji spoÅ'ecznych, które na zewnÄ…trz wydajÄ… siÄ™ bÅ'ahe, a których konsekwencje moralne i intelektualne tkwiÄ… w kobiecie tak gÅ'Ä™boko, ?e wydajÄ… siÄ™ mie? ?ródÅ'o w jej pierwotnej strukturze.

Yet no suffering befalls whoever relinquishes justice and truth, whereas the party system has painful penalties to chastise insubordination. These

I can never forgive evil and lying and cruel means, and still less can I forgive fanatics that use that for an excuse! If I may imitate Romain Rolland, a country that tolerates evil means — evil manners, standards of ethics — for a generation, will be so poisoned that it never will have any good end.

Some of you rich men have to be taught that all the world cannot be bribed into condoning your offences.","Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The power of hail and snow springs from a cloud, and thunder from the fire of lightning. Strong men destroy a city, and a tyrant enslaves people through their ignorance. A ship once out of port is hard to capture: know this now before it is too late.