Quotes About Consequences

400 mutineers were hanged simultaneously, while British officers seated beneath sipped whiskies and sodas and regimental bands played.

Thinking about design is hard, but not thinking about it can be disastrous.

liked to call his golden rules: Never poke a rattler, never get in the path of stampeding animals, and never, ever prod a man liable to exact payment for the affront in lead.

When pleasure follows the temptation and could have been avoided but was not, there is always some kind of sin according to the amount of time it is dwelt on and the pleasure taken in it.41

Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences.

God would not allow Adam and Eve to eat of the forbidden tree, even though it was good for food, pleasant to the eye and to be desired to make one wise (Gen. 3).

They who talk much of destiny, their birth-star, etc., are in a lower dangerous plane, and invite the evil they fear.

There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

Had Shastri been given another five years, there would have been no Nehru–Gandhi dynasty. Sanjay Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi would almost certainly still be alive, and in private life. The former would be a (failed) entrepreneur, the latter a recently retired airline pilot with a passion for photography. Finally, had Shastri lived longer, Sonia Gandhi would still be a devoted and loving housewife, and Rahul Gandhi perhaps a middle-level manager in a private sector company.

Good things happen, bad things are done..."

You will not be punished for your anger, Buddha had said. You will be punished by your anger.

Other people will reverse-engineer the technology. They'll remove the safeguards, or figure out how to build a clone system that doesn't have them. That's how it always works. Once the genie is out of the bottle, you can't control what they do.

In war, there are no winners.

You never feel good when you lie. It doesn't matter how much you want something, if you lie to somebody you love, and they actually, sincerely believe you, you feel like a cockroach that needs some serious Raid action.

If you screw things up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass.

Personally, I've come to believe that theories are of small value when it comes to actually living your life, to making all the hard decisions you have to make and then dealing with the consequences of those decisions.

A woman lies down with the devil, she should expect to cach some hell. One way or another.

There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

Most people who have told a lie think they got away with it … when in fact, they didn't

People lie for lots of reasons, often because it seems like a way to get what they want with less effort. But like many short-term strategies, it's ineffective long-term. You run into people again later, and they remember you lied to them. And they tell lots of other people about it. That's what amazes me about lying.

For I, the Lord thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me. Exodus 20:5.

Whenever man tries to become God, it is a tragedy.

The main thing that violence successfully does is to breed more violence.

Violence is often the refuge of incompetent leaders seeking wrong shortcuts.