Quotes About Consequences

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

Indifference and inaction must always pay a penalty.

Nations, like individuals, have to limit their objectives or take the consequences.

No good deed ever goes unpunished.

We risk all in being too greedy.

As well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

Hell is indefinite.

One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.

He that lives in a glass house must not throw stones.

Ignorance is no excuse-it's the real thing.

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

I try not to drink too much because when I'm drunk, I bite.

I'm super down with being irresponsible. I'm just trying to make sure my lack of responsibility no longer hurts people.

If Nick Clegg hadn't been sitting around the cabinet table, we wouldn't have had the bedroom tax; we wouldn't have had the rise in tuition fees. We wouldn't have had the mistakes we've seen in economic policy.

All fraudulent elections should be condemned, including those in Turkey and Russia. And we need to be doubly mindful not to indulge amateur socialists in this country, because even though a Bernie Sanders presidency is a joke, the consequences of diet communism are deadly serious.

Ever since the Meiji restoration in 1868, Japan has turned its back on Asia in general and China in particular: its pattern of aggression from 1895 onwards and the colonies that resulted were among the consequences.

I believe in God. I believe that He's real and I believe He has control over a lot of things and I think throughout history there has been a lot of countries that have turned their back on Him and the result is not great.

A computer, by definition, cannot be held accountable for anything because there is no mechanism to hold it to account, short of turning off the electricity supply or destroying the hardware. Only humans can be accountable.

One of the things about jail that's weird is that you're sent to a place where you're supposed to sit there and think about your actions and their consequences and why you're there. And I think now, it turns more into - the minute you go there, it's just survival.

Bullying is bullying, man. Even the biggest of the bullies got bullied. And what was happening in school comes from the media, innit? It comes from TV and society.

I honestly think that it automatically hurts me if I said that I supported the war in Iraq and I support the troops. That automatically kills me for getting a bunch of movies, a bunch of TV shows. People don't want to hear from me.

People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive.

Never tweet while you're angry; you'll probably regret it later.