Quotes About Consequences

My parents were angry, but they were relieved that I was in good condition. They had been afraid the Russians would torture me. They told me not to do it again!

When we torture people, even if we win the battle, we've already lost the war for hearts and minds. Especially our own.

No-deal Brexit could be Boris Johnson's biggest deception yet - worse than the Boris bus or the lies that had him sacked as a Times journalist or as a spokesman by the then Tory leader, Michael Howard.

Before people break the law, they need strong families - adult authority figures and the love of the family. When they step over the line, I'm a Tory. I believe in tough responses, in the law coming down on people like a ton of bricks.

Our life is the sum total of all the decisions we make every day, and those decisions are determined by our priorities.

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

You are the sum total of the choices you make every day.

The one thing that always drove me crazy, especially on soaps, was when someone would have something they were hiding, and then six months later, they were still holding onto that secret, and the world has come to a complete, total end as a result of it. If they'd only just confessed!

Pay now and play later or play now and pay later.

If you don't like the way I drive, stay off the sidewalk.

Morality has its own civil wars, with its own victims in its own time and place.

Killing hurts the heart and soils the soul.

The truth may not always be desirable, that one thing leads to another thing, that facts not only lead forward to resolution, but backwards into the shadows, and sometimes into the various little hells we make for each other.

It wasn't a crime to beat an Indian, not at all.

Little sins of omission that loom large now. You could go mad.

The end justifies the means. Sometimes you have to do the wrong thing to get the right result.

Das ist das Problem mit Wünschen, Herr Schwartz. Nur die falschen gehen sofort in Erfüllung.

To hostage takers, victims were the best forms of insurance. As long as the hostages were still alive, they were like pawns protecting them from attack, a way of buying their way to freedom. For that reason, contrary to the popular opinion perpetrated by TV crime series, it was very rare for hostage situations to have fatal consequences. For the perpetrator, a dead hostage was useless

That's probably the most ridiculous sentence that a man like you could come out with. You always had a choice. You just weren't brave enough to pay the price for your decisions

Ama iÅŸte bu anda çok tuhaf bir ÅŸey oldu - ve böyle size zaman?m?z?n, hiçbir gazetede yazmayan, en temel siyasi hadiselerinden birini anlatabilme ÅŸans?m oluÅŸtu: Bu davete icabet etmedi insanlar?n çoÄŸu. Ä°stemediler bunu. Almanya'da koca bir neslin, kendilerine bahÅŸedilen bu kocaman hediyeyle, özgür bir özel hayat kurma imkan?yla ne yapaca??n? bilemediÄŸi ortaya ç?kt?.

It is this lack of self-reliance that opens the possibility of immense catastrophes of civilization such as the rule of the Nazis in Germany.

In effect, humans have dragged a body with a long hominid history into an overfed, malnourished, sedentary, sunlight-deficient, sleep-deprived, competitive, inequitable, and socially-isolating environment with dire consequences." The

Capitalism works only when institutions are forced to absorb the consequences of the risks that they take on. When banks can pocket the upside while spreading the cost of their failures, failure is almost certain.

History will judge the invasion of Iraq one of the greatest foreign policy misadventures of all time.