Quotes About Consequences

When kings fall they fall on top of us.

In accepting an honorary degree from the University of Notre Dame a few years ago, General David Sarnoff made this statement: "We are too prone to make technological instruments the scapegoats for the sins of those who wield them. The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value.

What we do has eternal consequences, and you've got to have faith that whatever job you're given, it matters.

I think: you deserve to be what you are if you could bare to get that way. You must have seen it coming. And now there's nothing for you here. No one will protect you, and people won't see any reason not to do you harm.

Let me give you a lesson on war, Golo. Rule number one: never invade Russia.

ethics is not about platitudes, let alone tautologies, logic or mathematics, but about difficult choices - dilemmas.

28 German territorial losses

Man stares at what the explosion of the atom bomb could bring with it. He does not see that the atom bomb and its explosion are the mere final emission of what has long since taken place, has already happened.

We are faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words 'Too Late'.

Violence brings only temporary victories; violence, by creating many more social problems than it solves, never brings permanent peace.

One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.

If you sow the seeds of violence in your struggle, unborn generations will reap the whirlwind of social disintegration.

Constructive ends can never give absolute moral justification to destructive means, because in the final analysis the end is preexistent in the means.

Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness.

After that message of 23 April, the entire South Atlantic was an operational theatre for both sides. We, as professionals, said it was just too bad that we lost the Belgrano.

Eve took the bite. But instead of the promised benefits, she found herself with a mouthful of distasteful consequences—guilt, fear, and alienation. The fellowship she had enjoyed with God and her husband was broken. Paradise had been lost.

makes Satan's offers so alluring and so deceptive is that they look so right. The Devil is in the business of making sin look harmless, attractive, and promising. The problem is that Eve didn't stop to evaluate what was really happening. She didn't take the time to discern truth from error. She didn't stop to consider the cost and the consequences of what she was about to do.

Wild" is what we are whenever we disregard God and rely instead on the world's advice, or on what seems right in our own eyes.

Bad luck is what we conveniently call our bad choices.

She never wanted to hurt anyone's feelings. But in the end, she hurt herself.

I'm sure that's true. Nonetheless, Nate has to learn to face the consequences of his actions. You will not be able to protect him from all of life's difficult moments, you know. No parent can. All we can do is to let him go through them and learn from them. To give him the tools he needs.

I do not believe there is right or wrong, he said. there is only doing what one must do under given circumstances and living with the consequences and weaving every experiences, good and bad, into the fabric of one's life so that ultimately one can see the pattern of it all and accept the lessons life has taught.

between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and