Quotes About Consequences

You know what's wrong with scientific power? It's a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenially rich people are.

They didn't understand what they were doing. I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race.

But—as history has proven time and again—in the hands of human beings, increasing power is increasingly dangerous.

End of story. 'Happily ever after' fell on everyone like a guillotine's blade.

Men may congratulate themselves for writing truly and passionately about the movements of nations; they may consider war and the search for God to be great literature's only subjects; but if men's standing in the world could be toppled by an ill-advised choice of hat, English literature would be dramatically changed.

There were no weapons of mass destruction. And we bombed them anyway. And, by the way he's destroyed the economy. He's squandered something in the neighborhood of a trillion dollars. It seems impossible to Tyler that that might not matter. It drives him insane.

The higher up the tree a cat climbs, the farther it will fall. It's the same for politicians, except politicians don't bounce.

All the world's misfortunes stemmed from the countless untruths, both deliberate and unintentional, which people told because of haste or carelessness.

In his opinion, all the world's misfortunes stemmed from the countless untruths, both deliberate and unintentional, which people told because of haste or carelessness.

Hasta entonces, todo había sido para él como un gran juego. Se lo había tomado tan en serio como se tomaba cualquier juego y cualquier cuento, sin pensar en las consecuencias. Por primera vez en su vida, una historia continuaba sin él, se hacía independiente, y ni toda la fantasía del mundo podía hacerla dar marcha atrás. Se sentía paralizado.

Hayal kurmak, suç iÅŸlemekten farks?zd?.

When all the projections of intent and strategy twist and turn back on you, tracking team blood, 'sorry' just won't cover it. There's nothing so embarrassing as when things go wrong in a war.

en política las explicaciones siempre llegan demasiado tarde. Nunca debes dar explicaciones ni quejarte. Como mucho, si eres afortunado, lograrás vengarte.

Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.

So I had to go to the Marriott," I finished. "You what?" He jumped to his feet as though he'd been hit with a cattle prod. "How could you do this, after everything that happened?

What are the odds that people will make smart decisions about money if they don't need to make smart decisions—if they can get rich making dumb decisions?

Complicated financial stuff was being dreamed up for the sole purpose of lending money to people who could never repay it.

Ignorance allows people to disregard the consequences of their actions. And sometimes it leads to consequences even they did not intend.

The failure of decision makers to grapple with the inner workings of their own minds, and their desire to indulge their gut feelings, made it "quite likely that the fate of entire societies may be sealed by a series of avoidable mistakes committed by their leaders.

we are most often rewarded for punishing others, and punished for rewarding.

It's what you fail to imagine that kills you.

What are the odds that people will make smart decisions about money if they don't need to make smart decisions—if they can get rich making dumb decisions? The incentives on Wall Street were all wrong; they're still all wrong.

The problem wasn't that Lehman Brothers had been allowed to fail. The problem was that Lehman Brothers had been allowed to succeed.

Real risk was not volatility; real risk was stupid investment decisions.