Quotes About Consequences

War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which are as much general as particular. War is divine in the mysterious glory that surrounds it and in the no less inexplicable attraction that draws us to it. War is divine by the manner in which it breaks out.

Refuse to honour the genius who has abused his gifts.

The savage cuts down the tree to gather its fruit, he unharnesses the ox that missionaries have just given him, and cooks it with the wood of the plough. He has known us for three centuries without having wanted anything from us, except gunpowder to kill his fellows and brandy to kill himself.

When the good die, it sometimes unshackles evil that would otherwise have been kept in check!

And it is a good thing that many ideas have a relatively short shelf-life. Some because they are bad, even pernicious ideas: the Master Race, the class struggle, the Oedipus complex, and Socialism are four bad ideas with wretched consequences that come immediately to mind.

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way. —ÉMILE ZOLA

Okay, okay," I said. I should have known better than to talk comic books with Gabe. "What I'm trying to tell you is, the right thing isn't always the easy thing." "Do I get a cookie with that fortune?" "You might want to watch the way you talk to your elders," I said sternly. "Yeah, right," he said, and he smiled, and I smiled, too.

Their function is to keep the organism alive. Emotion is the feeling an organism has when it consciously experiences these consequences. Keeping separate the processes that detect and respond to significant events from the processes that generate feelings is thus key to making progress in understanding what emotions actually are and how they work. Although these processes are related, conflating them only impedes a genuine understanding of the emotional brain.

It won't be long before we'll be deafened by the screeches of whistles being blown by whistle-blowers blowing the whistle on themselves.

An error in the doctrine of God will have inevitable consequences in the sphere of action, of moral behaviour, of the polity of the Church, and of basic culture and social organization. A change in the doctrine of the Trinity in either of these directions cannot help but have political consequences. Farrell, commenting on Nazianzen's connection between Trinity and Holy Monarchy

Was hätte es schließlich genützt, die "ultimative Waffe" abzuwerfen und dann nicht einmal den Anruf des kapitulierenden Feindes entgegennehmen zu können?

There is never a time when a president can act to stop a tragedy from occurring without being held politically accountable one way or the other. If he does it and fails, he's wrong. If he does it and succeeds, he was never right because it didn't happen. If we go in and stop an act of genocide, we can't prove what we stopped.

I think you're a damn war criminal and you should be tried as one.

back." As he spoke, Ivypool sprang to her paws. "This is all my fault," she mewed

Hollyleaf was Clanless, codeless. She could be a rogue, even a kittypet. There was no way Hollyleaf could let Ashfur tell the four Clans about Squirrelflight's confession. She and her littermates would be driven out! Everything they had done up till now, all their loyalty to the warrior code, would count for nothing.

kits and elders. But what would the tainted water do to the cats who had drunk it?

Ashfur's. "Let's

Flourish?" Jackdaw's Cry curled his lip. "You sent Frost away to die. You trained Jagged Peak until you crippled him. You have orphan kits because you killed their mother. Do you call that 'flourishing'?

Big risks come with big rewards," she pressed. "And even bigger dangers.

What do you think will happen to a cat who rejected, and then killed, his own son? Surely that cat would end up in the Dark Forest. Think of that when you are on your last life!

Wow!" Sandstorm exclaimed. "What a dreadful thing to do! Bramblestar will certainly throw you out of the Clan.

Hemos hecho lo correcto? —preguntó Zarpa Gris. —No lo sé —admitió el otro—. Si lo hemos hecho, somos héroes y los cachorros están a salvo. Si nos equivocamos, entonces ya podemos darnos por muertos.

Just think of all those women on the Titanic who said, "No, thank you" to dessert that night. And for what?!

You show me a boy who brings a snake home to his mother and I'll show you an orphan.