Quotes About Consequences

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.

You will not be punished for your anger. You will be punished by your anger

It is because of their corrupt thoughts That creatures go to Misery.

It would be better not to know how to write. Then one would not have to sign death sentences."16

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

Shooting people to keep them from dying had logical flaws obvious to everyone.

Between justice and genocide there is, in the long run, no middle ground.

There is no moral difference between ordering an execution, and carrying it out.

God help thee old man, thy thoughts have created a creature in thee; and he whose intense thinking thus makes him a Prometheus; a vulture feeds upon that heart for ever; that vulture the very creature he creates.

Often ill comes from the good, as good from ill.

Wasted hours destroy your life just as surely at the beginning as at the end - only at the end it becomes more obvious.

The last war ruined Germany. Another war will be the absolute end of our country.

The British criminals responsible for dropping bombs on women and little children would soon have to face the bar of justice.

Now it happened that this Candaules was in love with his own wife; and not only so, but thought her the fairest woman in the whole world. This fancy had strange consequences.

History shows again and again how nature points out the folly of men.

Ma soeur a mis le feu à sa chambre en lisant la nuit avec une lampe de poche sous son duvet pour que mon père ne voie pas de lumière passer sous la porte. Mais elle l'a éteint toute seule, en battant l'édredon contre le mur, et en ouvrant la fenêtre pour évacuer la fumée. Quand ma mère entre le matin dans sa chambre, elle trouve tout cramé. Mes parents n'ont plus la force de rosser ma soeur, elle résiste trop dignement à leurs coups.

One who delays his work is always wrestling with ruin.

He does mischief to himself who does mischief to another, and evil planned harms the plotter most.

When it was time to write, and he took his pen in his hand, he never thought of consequences; he thought of style. I wonder why I ever bothered with sex, he thought; there's nothing in this breathing world so gratifying as an artfully placed semicolon.

The fate of peoples is made like this, two men in small rooms. Forget the coronations, the conclaves of cardinals, the pomp and processions. This is how the world changes: a counter pushed across a table, a pen stroke that alters the force of a phrase, a woman's sigh as she passes and leaves on the air a trail of orange flower or rose water; her hand pulling close the bed curtain, the discreet sigh of flesh against flesh.

We make irrational and often destructive choices because we have given money and its pursuit too much value.

There will be killing till the score is paid.

All things are in the hand of heaven, and Folly, eldest of Jove's daughters, shuts men's eyes to their destruction. She walks delicately, not on the solid earth, but hovers over the heads of men to make them stumble or to ensnare them.

Iron has powers to draw a man to ruin