Quotes About Consequences

In his struggle for selfish gain, man has often needlessly tipped the scales so that Nature's balance has been destroyed, and the public welfare has usually been on the short-weighted side.

We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.

Mincing your words makes it easier if you have to eat them later.

It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.

I might be a wicked girl who'd think nothing of eating a baby for breakfast, but I'd never allow myself to get expelled. It's far too public.

When you hate yourself, you don't neglect your responsibilities. When you hate yourself, you never forget what you did

Nobody does good to man with impunity.

Lo que interpretamos como un sentimiento de culpa en las personas a menudo es, igual que en los perros, una manera de evitar consecuencias negativas, más que la evidencia de una distinción profunda entre lo correcto y lo incorrecto.

We have sown the wind; he is the hurricane

Our victims know us by their wounds and shackles: that is what makes their testimony irrefutable. They only need to know what we have done to them for us to realize what we have done to ourselves. Is this necessary? Yes, because Europe is doomed.

The basic confrontation which seemed to be colonialism versus anti-colonialism, indeed capitalism versus socialism, is already losing its importance. What matters today, the issue which blocks the horizon, is the need for a redistribution of wealth. Humanity will have to address this question, no matter how devastating the consequences may be.

Then your words of abuse today may turn into a universally valid principle of denigration, for words are magical formulae. They leave fingermarks behind on the brain, which in the twinkling of an eye becomes the footprints of history. One ought to watch one's every word.

Whoever harms an innocent man, pure and faultless, his evil comes back at him like dust thrown into the wind. Sutta Nipata 662

In our moments of sober thought we all realize that booms are bad things, not good. But nearly all of us have a secret hankering for another one. " Another little orgy wouldn't do us any harm," is the feeling that persists both downtown and up.

The Punisher: If there are no consequences to your mistakes...there are no reason not to make them...

The Punisher: If there are no consequences to your mistakes...you have no reason...not to make them...

chi dice superstizione dice credulità. Chi dice credulità dice manipolazione, e chi dice manipolazione dice calamità. E' la piaga dell'umanità, ha fatto più morti lei di tutte le epidemie di peste messe assieme.

Sin embargo, olvidas dos cosas: a fuerza de no hacer nada, se acaba por no hacer nada.

When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

based on the ordinary American's conviction of his God-given right to rape the globe's resources for his own comforts;

A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.

They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever...and the other one scared me out of my mind.

Greedy eaters dig their graves with their teeth.