Quotes About Consequences

It wins every time we accept that we have only bad choices available to us: austerity or extraction, poisoning or poverty.

their lands as a result of our actions (and inactions), our governments will build ever more high-tech fortresses and adopt even more draconian anti-immigration laws. And, in the name of

You cannot advocate massive economic change in a country without that change having big political consequences.

we have an economic system that fetishizes GDP growth above all else, regardless of the human or ecological consequences, while failing to place value on those things that most of us cherish above all—a decent standard of living, a measure of future security, and our relationships with one another.

They deny reality because the implications of that reality are, quite simply, unthinkable.

Because that's what the story's really about: getting out of paying your debts.

And yet Praecursoris is not punished the same way, only because it is not practical, and he is needed for breeding?

Yeah, Aadhya agreed. The school wants you to go maleficer. What could you do if you decided to start using malia? If you had me make a list of the top ten questions I go to great lengths to avoid asking myself, that one would have comprehensively covered items one through nine, and the only reason it wasn't doing for item ten as well was that So how do you feel about Orion Lake had quietly crept onto the bottom of it. But it's a long way from the rest.

As happy as I would be to forgo the very doubtful pleasure of watching you flop about like an exhausted eel over the least cantrip," he bit out, "we've already seen the consequences of leaving you to your own devices.

we ought to have gone back up and started at the library, but we didn't, in the same way you know perfectly well you ought to stop reading and go to bed and you'll feel hideously groggy in the morning if you don't, and yet you keep going.

you know perfectly well you ought to stop reading and go to bed and you'll feel hideously groggy in the morning if you don't

A robber who steals a knife and cuts himself cannot cry out against the woman who kept it sharp." He

Si no quieres que alguien se muera, no lo aporrees una y otra vez en la cabeza.

I didn't want to die, and I didn't want to kill; I didn't want to go to death a murderer with bloody hands. I wanted that more than I didn't want to be a liar. But he was going to die anyway, die worse, and they would all die with him. There were a thousand ways to die, and not all of them were equally as bad.

the cause of the depression is traceable directly to the worldwide habit of trying to reap without sowing.

In parting, I would remind you that "Life is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is time. If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly, your men will be wiped off the board by time. You are playing against a partner who will not tolerate decisions!

Building alibis is a deeply rooted habit.

War is such a dangerous business that mistakes that come from kindness are the very worst.

There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse.

They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether this was due to the cards they'd been dealt or to the way they had played them.

It was a well-known fact that the richness of buttery foods led to the moral ruin and confusion of the intellect.

Evil presupposes a moral decision, intention, and some forethought. A moron or a lout, however, doesn't stop to think or reason.

All the bad things you do in life come back to you, (David). And I've done a lot of bad things. A lot. But I've paid the price. (The Angel's Game)

O caminho para o Inferno é feito de boas intenções.