Quotes About Consequences

We should be extremely cautious about continuing to increase sentences as a routine response to concerns over crime.

There are few catastrophes so great and irremediable as those that follow an excess of zeal.

Americans could open doors to almost all that was admirable--it was their misfortune, not their fault, that movies and victrolas and advertisements squeezed in when they opened the door.

What's the worst that can happen during planning? Maybe your whiteboard is accidentally erased. What's the worst that can happen during delivery? Your drill breaks through the ocean floor, flooding the tunnel.

An absolute and unlimited right over any object of property would be the right to commit nearly every crime. If I had such a right over the stick I am about to cut, I might employ it as a mace to knock down the passengers, or I might convert it into a sceptre as an emblem of royalty, or into an idol to offend the national religion.

As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, because it is impossible to tell where it ends.

We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us

You don't blame the children for the sins of the father and all of that.

Ultimately, however, there is no absolute good or bad, no timeless right or wrong, only that which does or does not advance our (i.e. God's) existential purpose. Rules of proper behavior depend upon time and place, because the consequences of the things we do largely depend on the context in which they are done. Consider how the sex act can be a crime or a consummation of love, depending solely on the context in which it is performed.

How could this happen in a beautiful place like Glen Ridge? What made a bunch of friendly, likeable boys, boys from fine families, boys with every imaginable advantage, do such a thing?

Now Leslie began to understand: perhaps Mari had an ulterior motive in cultivating a friendship with her. "Maybe she was trying to protect the boys," Leslie said. This insight led to a suggestion: "I think her parents should know what she did to me. She could do this to someone else and they'd beat her up, but I won't because I'm nice.

There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers.

Private Vices, Public Benefits.

People who say, 'Let the chips fall where they may,' usually figure they will not be hit by a chip.

So I was still guilty. And if I was not guilty because one cannot be guilty of betraying a criminal, then I was guilty of having loved a criminal.

don't start no sh wont be no it

Art is never without consequences.

What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?

At such times he would think, 'What will I do if she does not love me as much as I love her?' A terrible reply came from his heart, 'Kill her.

Problems that are not resolved today will most likely never be resolved. It hurts to hear, but it's the truth.

Well, " said her daddy, "your careless heedlessness has almost lost me my life. I am now going to give you a spanking." And he did and so dinner was a snuffling red-eyed meal filled with cold looks and long silences and the cheese souffle, which was delicious.

As he'd noted before, the decision to cross the color line had allowed him to reap many benefits, but it had cost him, too, and this time that decision would haunt him for the rest of his life.

I'd given him my virginity because he told me I was special, but apparently I was simply a new link in a very long chain." "So what did you do?" ... "Put red pepper sauce in his rubbers.

In 1969, the Supreme Court ruled that while investigators shouldn't threaten possible consequences—grand jury investigation, prison time, execution—or make promises of leniency, they can use tactics of "reasonable deception" and duplicity to solve crimes. Another reason neither to believe what cops say nor to answer their questions.