Quotes About Consequences

Croz je mrtev, Carrel zlomený a Taugwalder byl zdiskreditován. A to vÅ¡echno jen proto, že Whymper umí lépe zacházet se slovy než s cepínem.

Where would the world be if we took every man to book? There were thousands of Kantoreks, all of whom were convinced that they were acting for the best- in a way that cost them nothing.

Aš buvau tiek daug mat?s savo gyvenime, jog žinojau, kad arba reikia prikaišioti sau visk?, k? tik darai, arba nieko neprikaišiot.

Et voilà ! Ils sont là ! Ils sont nous ! Ils ont repeuplé le monde, et ils sont aussi cons qu'avant, et prêts à faire de nouveau sauter la baraque. C'est pas beau, ça ? C'est l'homme !

My dislike has no consequences. It accrues only in my mind—like preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing in, and never firing.

La ética es como el amor. Se vive en presente, las consecuencias no importan. Si uno piensa en el pasado es porque ya perdió la pasión...

Dangerous thing, a name. Someone might catch hold of you by it, mightn't they?

I know. And we have no does--not one--and no does means no kittens and in a few years no warren. It may seem incredible that the rabbits had given no thought to so vital a matter. But men have made the same mistake more than once--left the whole business out of account, or been content to trust to luck and the fortune of war.

Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.

The first fact was that if Heidi hadn't picked that particular day to try out a little autoeroticism, Halleck would have been on top of his job and his responsibility as the operator of a motor vehicle

PETER. Egad — and so we must — that's impossible. Ah! Master Rowley when an old Batchelor marries a young wife — He deserves — no the crime carries the Punishment along with it.

What would happen if you didn't do the thing you "have to" do?

The truth is, the only difference between good girls and bad girls is: Good girls just haven't been caught yet.

As many men have observed, the wrong woman can ruin your life if you let her in it.

Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, distinctly heard the voice of Jesus telling him to kill women, and he was locked up for life. George W. Bush says that God told him to invade Iraq (a pity God didn't vouchsafe him a revelation that there were no weapons of mass destruction).

Evil…doesn't mean doing things that have bad consequences for people. It means private thoughts and actions that are not to "the Christian majority's" private liking.

It is interesting to wonder whether taxonomists of the future may regret the way our generation messed around with genomes.

As Einstein said, 'If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Do we really need policing — whether by God or by each other — in order to stop us from behaving in a selfish and criminal manner?

But the very fact that Darwinism is true makes it even more important for us to fight against the naturally selfish and exploitative tendencies of nature.We can do it.Probably no other species of animal or plant can. We can do it because our brains (admittedly given to us by natural selection for reasons pf short-term Darwinian gain) are big enough to see into the future and plot long-term consequences.

Einstein said, 'If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

It does not seem ever to have been satisfactorily answered why the two first operational atomic bombs were used—against the strongly voiced wishes of the leading physicists responsible for developing them—to destroy two cities instead of being deployed in the equivalent of spectacularly shooting out candles.

Most of the replicators in the world have won their place in it by defeating all available alternative alleles. The weapons with which they won, and the weapons with which their rivals lost, are their respective phenotypic consequences