Quotes About Consequences

Sobriety has a way of allowing a person to begin to realize that the things that you do have consequences for the people that love you.

The Nazis and the Khmer Rouge went to great lengths to hide their crimes against humanity. Instead, ISIS posts its many crimes on social media for global distribution with seemingly no thoughts for the consequences.

You don't have to be famous to have problems on social media. It affects everyone, and it's on there forever, and the things you say when you're 15 are not necessarily what you'd say when you're 25 or 35.

All company bosses want a policy on corporate social responsibility. The positive effect is hard to quantify, but the negative consequences of a disaster are enormous.

Every technology company should have a red button somewhere in the headquarters where, if they realize they've caused more societal harm than they expected and done more harm than good, they press the button, and the company dissolves instantly.

Evil societies always kill their consciences.

To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.

We forget that everything has a meaning, everything has an impact on you. It's what we call soft power today. Nothing is innocent.

I did a soft drink ad some time back. Later, a mother came to me and said that her child started consuming more of that drink after seeing my ad. It made me measure my actions.

The problem is, in software design, often the consequences of your decisions don't become apparent for years.

The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.

You know what happened, you know, in 1938: France, England, you know, just sold out Czechoslovakia to Hitler.

We are living in a country that has taken the short view on everything. We have sold our future.

I don't want to ride in a self driving car that can't drive me to a certain place because someone has bought or sold an illegal copy of something there.

If every soldier is authorized to make one mistake, then we lose the war.

Miracles aren't necessarily good for everyone. The parting of the Red Sea, great for the Jews, not so hot for the Egyptian soldiers.

Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief.

With Obamacare's fate in jeopardy, Democrats have no solutions to solve the mess they forced upon Americans.

You're thinking about the physical consequences about what you're writing if you're going to direct it. If you're not going to direct it, then it's somebody else's problem, and they'll solve it.

As we have seen both in healthcare and energy, passing reckless, ill-conceived massive bills usually create more problems than we solve.

Yet we act as if simple cause and effect is at work. We push to find the one simple reason things have gone wrong. We look for the one action, or the one person, that created this mess. As soon as we find someone to blame, we act as if we've solved the problem.

We need to educate our young people about the dangers of gun violence and that there are real consequences for solving disputes with guns.

Going into Somalia, I didn't anticipate how many people's lives would be affected by it. In hindsight, I certainly wish I had taken more time to think about that, but I can't change it.