Quotes About Consequences

Religious leaders should keep to religion. If they interfere in politics, it spells doom for religion as well as for the kingdom.

Words can be like swords, cutting deep, not into the flesh but into the tender heart. The time will come, my young friend, when you will gaze upon the still form of one you loved, and you will regret with tears and sighs the harsh words you have spoken. Do not lay up for yourself sorrow for that time.

the anonymous Chinese author we know as Laozi pointed out that no matter how good his intentions, violence always recoils upon the perpetrator.

Quando gli dei vogliono punirci, avverano i nostri desideri.

Our words are powerful, and they have consequences.

My words, sometimes even my lack of words, have caused me much pain over the years. It hasn't always been that I have gossiped or lied. Sometimes I just talk too much. Or I repeated the words of others, which I should not have. Other times I have tried to say the right thing, but it came out the wrong way. Or I have said the right thing but in the presence of the wrong people or at the wrong time. There was just no shortage to the ways I could misuse my mouth.

In 2004, Jacques Derrida said that a change was under way. Torture damages the inflicter as well as the inflicted. It's no coincidence that one of the Abu Ghraib torturers came to the military directly from a job as a chicken processor. It might be slow, Derrida said, but eventually the spectacle of our abuse of animals will be intolerable to our sense of who we are.

The monkey girl had made another unscheduled appearance, and it had landed her in jail again. When would she learn to behave with restraint and decorum?

That's how tyranny succeeds. When folks think it won't affect them until eventually it does.

Before you handed someone power, you had to ask yourself if you'd be happy with the worst possible thing they could ever do with it.

Two wrongs—not equal to or more than a right (...) Good luck with quantifying a unit of right or wrong.

Real evil wasn't about bending the law to suit justice: evil was acting out of small, intensely personal expedience and losing sight of the bigger picture so often that you never got it back again.

Beware the high cost of low living.

You don't understand how the world works. That there are consequences you can't predict. That bad choices, bad deeds, can corrupt you.

You can't light a match, then act surprised when your house burns down.

Anything's legal if you can get away with it." Maggie slammed the locker closed. "Welcome to the Atlanta Police Department.

There were good guys and bad guys, and to protect one, you did what you had to do to the other.

you cannot fight a man's history.

Dušo, znam da imaš posla i znam da ?e biti opasno, ali u što god da se danas uvališ, ne?e biti ni približno tako opasno po život kao ono što ?e se dogoditi ako mi ikad više napraviš ono što si mi radio sino? i nakon toga zaklju?iš da se drugo jutro možeš izvu?i sa rukovanjem. Dobro?

People just dump their trash here and don't even care about who has to pick it up. Like they think the trash fairy's gonna do it or something.

Then I ask myself what would happen if that grimy metal mesh were taken away. What would a man like Ben Carver do to me if there were no guards posted, no barrier between us? Would he explicate Spenser's Faerie Queene or would he cut me open and sample a sliver of my pancreas?

You get to a point where you look around and you ask yourself, 'What is this doing to the rest of my family? What harm am I doing to my other children by concentrating all of my energy on rescuing this one child who will not be saved?

John picked up a glass vase w/ flowers, dropping them on the floor). I'm going to call the police. (Aunt Lydia) Better duck first. (John)

He can not hear us, Falon. You and I, we share blood. It is just the two of us in our own little world. I can come to you at my leisure, and Rafael will know nothing of it. Unless you choose to tell him. Then - Lucien shook his head - what do you think my brother will do when he discovers his chosen one came yo me in every sense of the word?