Quotes About Consequences

Centuries of enlightenment and progress vanished virtually overnight because Men couldn't find a way to use it wisely and purposefully.

Because life's dictates did not allow for quick and easy distinctions between right and wrong or good and bad. Choices were made between shades of gray, and there was healing and harm to be weighed on both sides of each.

You did what you should have done. Accept that sometimes the consequences are harsh and unforeseen. Accept that you cannot always allow for every result. There is nothing wrong in this.

Those who committed atrocities always seemed to do so out of a misconceived sense of righteousness and the greater good.

When a massive failure to preserve the integrity of an ecosystem occured, no one escaped the consequences.

He knew how to tell a lie when it was needed and a greater good would be served.

Failure to act in a timely manner can be fatal.

Those who ignore the mistakes of the past are doomed to repeat them in the future, but no one believes it.

Humans have blinded themselves to the reality of what they are doing. When you closely examine the path they have taken, you come to realize it leads directly to extinction.

Of small events are great catastrophes constructed.

You make the choice to use a weapon or not, and your choices will always matter more than the weapon itself, for weapons have a tendency to steal away compassion, empathy, and any consideration of what you

Sometimes the choices you are given are bad ones, no matter which way you go. And therefore the consequences are bad ones, as well.

Wrong doing must be punished. If not, it will proliferate until anarchy wears the robes of tolerance and understanding.

Wizard's Second Rule The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.

You mean that it's not only what he does that makes him dangerous, but also what he feels justified in doing?

Fools who won't see the truth are deadly.

The people who most often invited trouble were the willfully ignorant who didn't want to believe trouble was possible, so they dismissed the potential for it. You couldn't be ready for what you never considered or were unwilling to consider.

I'm going to do the worst possible thing I could do to you and your people—what my grandfather would have done to you. "I'm going to leave you all to suffer the consequences of your own actions.

You can never stop all wrongdoing, but if you don't punish it, then it proliferates until anarchy wears the robes of tolerance and understanding.

If you brought harm, no matter the reason, you had to set it right as best you could.

Trouble sires three children.

While it was understandable to be afraid, and no one would expect you not to be, the worst thing you could do was to run from the trouble you had caused. No matter how accidental it was, you didn't try to deny it. You didn't run. You did what you must to right it.

Do you know, Richard, that it's the weight of one flake of snow that is one too many, and causes an avalanche? Without that one, last flake, the catastrophe would not happen. When using magic, you must know which is the one snowflake too many before you add its weight. The avalanche will be out of all proportion to what you think the weight of that flake could invoke.

Killing is a terrible thing, too. I hate killing. But killing isn't necessarily wrong.