Quotes About Consequences

Nebo: lidé prý vidÄ›li neÅ¡tÄ›stí, netajili se s tím a varovali. Ale to v politice neplatí, jestliže to nevedlo k ?in?m a jestliže tyto ?iny nebyly úsp?šné.

T]he emancipation of the workers contains universal human emancipation — and it contains this because the whole of human servitude is involved in the relation of the worker to production, and all relations of servitude are but modifications and consequences of this relation.

But it is the actions of a moment that often have the most permanent of consequences.

What did science ever do for the world, apart from make better ways of killing people?" Sylvie said.

History is all about 'what ifs

He could hardly beat them up, they were still – technically – children and he preferred to restrict his acts of violence to people old enough to fight for their country.

Wronged wives were a law unto themselves.

Don't you wonder sometimes,' Ursula said. 'If just one small thing had been changed, in the past, I mean. If Hitler had died at birth, or if someone had kidnapped him as a baby and brought him up in--I don't know, say, a Quaker household--surely things would be different.

Could you be an old maid if you had worn the scarlet letter?

A man fashions ill for himself who fashions ill for another, and the ill design is most ill for the designer.

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin.

I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability.

There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad consequences, if indeed anything can cure it.

Men are sometimes hanged for telling the truth.

The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.

To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins.

When men live as if there were no God, it becomes expedient for them that there should be none.

But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.

The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it.

The senator's actions in the hours and days after emerging from that pond tell us something ugly about Kennedy the man. That he got away with it tell us something ugly about American public life.

If a railroad is bent, the train shall turn over; if a man's character is bent, he shall turn over just like that train.

There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

A man made for public life and authority never takes account of personalities; he only takes account of things, of their weight and their conseqences.