Quotes About Consequences

Utilitarianism holds that an action, or a law, is right only if it produces the best outcome – only if it brings about the "greatest good for the greatest number.

And as Prince Ramil has insulted you by choosing another wife than the one you proposed for him, you'll want to cast him out too," she suggested slyly. "Oh, undoubtedly," murmed Ramil. "Do cast me out.

A man who breaks a promise has a weak place in his net. Sometimes he'll get by with it, but sometime he'll lose the catch of a lifetime.

This culture of pressure and rivalry tended to produce two, highly contrasted species of official: the creatively corrupt libertine, and the puritan. And it was the tension between the two that helped produce the Opium War, with all its unfortunate consequences.

No matarás, hijo, tú no matarás. Porque ningún hombre vuelve a ser el mismo después de haber quitado la vida a otro hombre».

Su silencio le había salvado a él, pero había condenado a otros.

No hay nada más peligroso que alguien que decide ser decente en el último minuto. Hará cualquier cosa por intentar enmendar su pasado.

El odio y la sinrazón tienen el mismo efecto que las epidemias.

La culpa no es de quien dispara la bala o coloca el explosivo, la culpa es de quien ha provocado la maldita guerra, de quien no va al frente pero envía los hombres a morir.

She could not bear the thought. She simply could not bear the thought that she might somehow prove to her grandfather that her mother had indeed been a fool and her father had been a damned fool and that she was the damnedest fool of them all.

If looks could have killed, Susan would have been bleeding profusely from the forehead.

Sebastian Grey. The worrds rang like a miserable moan in her head. On the list of men she ought not to be kissing, he had to rank at the top, along with the King, Lord Liverpool, and the chimney sweep.

Many a woman has been ruined by a single kiss.

you may tell your husband that if he so much as touches a hair on my fiancés head, I shall personally see to it that his liver is extracted through his mouth.

I very specifically told you to stay away from Ned Blydon." "I chose not to follow your advice. Ned is a very nice person. Handsome, personable—a perfect escort." "That is precisely why I wanted you to keep him at arm's length.

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Richard was to think he could pass off her child as his and not have it rain unhappiness later. If it was a girl, they might make it work, but if Fleur had a boy . . . Clearly they needed to find that girl a husband. Iris still didn't understand why no one else seemed to see this. Fleur flat out

He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.

Whether I'm involved or indirectly involved, I screw things up all the time.

Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will.

Inevitably, these sorts of things are going to come back to blow up in people's faces.

As we try to make the financial system safer, we must inevitably confront the problem of moral hazard.

You can harvest any data that you want, on anybody. You can infer any data that you like, and you can use it to manipulate them in any way that you choose. And you can roll out an algorithm that genuinely makes massive differences to people's lives, both good and bad, without any checks and balances.