Quotes About Consequences

Words have a way of coming back to haunt us.

Nephew, there ain't a man alive that can stand up ta the power of that little cooter. The holt it has on a man is unbreakable. It'll bring a strong man ta his knees. Read your history. Look at the kings an' kingdoms that have fallen ta that little split tail. Prentice Ritter

None of the boys were studying for the math test we had today, because none of them cared.

Pasoon," Reshmina said, "what if there was another way? What if—" But when she looked up, Pasoon was gone.

Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices. —Alfred A. Montapert

Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions? Others hold that each decision must be considered and committed to, that without commitment there is chaos. Such people are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.

Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We've seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse."

PREFER DEATH TO a lying word, for the ripple-effect of its plunder is worse. When a man dies, he dies alone— but many are slain with the lie and its curse. —AVRAHAM IBN HASDAI (C. 915–990)

When you are living by faith through the darkness of circumstances, other people become aware of the radiance and sweetness of your life, and they are truly blessed. When you refuse to admit your failure, God cannot be revealed through you to others, and they may be lost for eternity. Oh, the sin of unbelief has desperate consequences, not only for yourself, but for others!

Your choices have more consequences than your impulses.

Disaster often comes in the long run from suboptimal decisions in the short run

It didn't matter who liked whom, or on what side a man might find himself, because they were all on the side of a world of very definite finite resources, and they would all suffer terrifying consequences if they drained to bare bones the world that had conceived the life of the human race, fostered and nurtured that life, which now threatened to contaminate and destroy—

I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.' W.H. Auden, 'September 1, 1939', 1940

That's the problem getting rich. You use up your whole life doing it. Just to sit up the front of the aeroplane.

Plato in both the Gorgias and the Republic looked back to Socrates and asserted that "it is better to suffer tortures on the rack than to have a soul burdened with the guilt of doing evil." Aristotle does not confront this position directly: he merely emphasizes that it is better still both to be free from having done evil and to be free from being tortured on the rack.

Could kindness – by only ever taking little steps – twist itself into the worst kind of cruelty?

Then they'd be wrong. It's only our deeds that make us evil, Tanner; they're what define us, nothing else, not our intentions or feelings. But what are a few bad deeds compared to a life, especially the kinds of lives we can live now?

We crawl out of rocks, set our calendars, make a civilisation, scrabble around for quoins, build our proud little empires, and then one day someone puts too many quoins in the same place and it all comes crashing down.

Such was the nature of obsessions: no quarter given for the human cost.

She would worry, just as you worry. It's the people who don't worry—those who never have any doubts that what they're doing is good and right—they're the ones that cause the problems.

Individuals do matter and personalities matter in politics. But if issues are sidestepped due to personalities, then that is very dangerous.

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.

Alcohol is a big part of high school. I went through my little phase. I don't know one high schooler that doesn't.

I think it's a flawed philosophy to believe impunity when it's inappropriate.