Quotes About Consequences

Trash talk is dangerous, especially when it comes from hearsay.

There is no scientific reason to think that we, even with space travel, are going to survive as a species for ever, certainly not by biting off the hand that feeds us, which is exactly what we are doing.

Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason.

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.

If I really treated business like a businessman, I wouldn't have done what I have done - opposing China. No businessman in their right mind would do this because you know that there will be repercussions.

Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.

For about 125 years, give or take, the Canadian government has acted extremely badly - even in a way which should be called evil - breaking treaties, breaking agreements.

The more Gov. Andrew Cuomo gets away with treating New York badly, the crueler he is.

As an emergency physician, I have seen my patients forgo needed treatment because they are afraid they will lose their jobs.

We go in to liberate Cuba, but Cuba still isn't free; we don't really think through what we'll do after the initial treaty is signed, but we're still occupying. There's chaos and torture and finally an outcry.

Even though my brother and I loved scrumping - we loved the act of climbing trees and grabbing fruit - there was always fear we would be caught. We feared we'd be imprisoned, sent to Australia.

You're under tremendous pressure, and everyone needs you to be perfect all the time, and that often creates a perverse incentive to not tell the truth. Please remember - when you get caught not telling the truth, it's over.

It takes courage to pull the ball down and reverse field and do some of the crazy things that Favre and Manziel do. There's going to be consequences when sometimes it doesn't work out. But it takes a tremendous amount of guts and courage to go make a play when there's nothing there instead of throwing the ball away.

Any country that steps into the same trench as the Jews has only itself to blame.

A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.

Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial.

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

If Bush and Blair are eventually put on trial for war crimes, I shall not be among those pressing for them to be hanged.

Above all, we must avoid the pitfalls of tribalism. If we are divided among ourselves on tribal lines, we open our doors to foreign intervention and its potentially harmful consequences.

I haven't mentioned another argument, The Hague tribunal. It is clear our generals and all of you who are sitting here now with me could end up there, too.

Tonight started innocently enough. Most terrible things do, right?

Telling one lie almost always requires another, and before the storyteller knows it, they will be caught inside of their own web.

The problem with escaping is that we leave behind us, even among those we love, different versions of the truth and everything we couldn't bring ourselves to say.

Karma: The delusion of the pretentious who think the Universe should act as their debt collector.