Quotes About Consequences

Don't lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell.

Hell hath no fury like a politican scorned.

Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.

Scientists are doing an awful lot of damage to the world in the name of helping it. I don't mind attacking my own fraternity because I am ashamed of it.

When you break the rules and you win, you're a hero; when you lose, you're scurrilous.

There is a high cost for low living.

I can't afford to do the highlight dunk and miss it because, if I do that, I'll be sitting right on the bench beside the coaches.

I know what sexual harassment looks like. I'm also a lawyer by training and am highly aware that these behaviors should have real consequences.

I always go back to Harry Truman: Should we drop an atomic bomb to save 100,000 lives? That's a hell of a decision to make. Did he make that decision by himself? No, he had advisers.

Two wrongs do not make a right; but three rights make a left.

Who's the more foolish; the fool, or the fool who follows him?

It is a hard thing for a rich man to grow poor; but it is an awful thing for him to grow dishonest, and some kinds of speculation lead a man deep into dishonesty before he thinks what he is about. Poverty will not make a man worthless—he may be of worth a great deal more when he is poor than he was when he was rich; but dishonesty goes very far indeed to make a man of no value—a thing to be thrown out in the dust-hole of the creation, like a bit of broken basin, or dirty rag.

You had better not open that door.

The causing of the little ones to offend hangs a fearful woe about the neck of the causer.

In seeking to improve their conditions, might I not do them harm, and only harm?

You must consider that you are but a part of the whole, and that whatever you do to hurt the whole, or injure any of its parts, will return upon you who form one of those parts.

Our crimes are friends that will hunt us either to the bosom of God, or the pit of hell.

He has wronged me grievously. It is a dreadful thing to me, and more dreadful still to him, that he should have done it. He has hurt me, but he has nearly killed himself.

Those whose business it is to open doors, so often mistake and shut them!

The consequences of every act are included in the act itself.

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.

War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking into the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comforable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.

These people don't see that if you encourage totalitarian methods, the time may come when they will be used against you instead of for you.

There were things, your own acts, from which you could never recover. Something was killed in your breast: burnt out, cauterized out.