Quotes About Consequences

Look at Donald Trump: He loves to call out individual reporters by name, which leads to major problems in those reporters' lives. I certainly don't want to add to that myself.

When I approached one of his secretaries for an interview, I was told that Bob [Dylan] didn't want to see me anymore because of what my wife Margot [Hentoff] had written.

In the financial sector, those whom the gods want to destroy they first teach math.

When God wants to drive a person insane, he grants that person's every wish.

Oscar Wilde said that the gods punish us in two ways: first, they don't give us what we want, then, they do. He forgot the third way: we finally see the cost of getting it.

Yeah, and by the way? How much does it suck that I'm an adult if I kill somebody, and not if I want a beer?

Things that Shane doesn't want on his grave: (1.) I thought it wasn't loaded. (2.) Hand me a match so I can check the gas tank. (3.) Killed over Ice Cream

We still can't control the consequences our choices will bring. Not only do we want freedom of choice, but we also want a guarantee that whatever we choose will be exactly as we envisioned it.

We scientists are clever — too clever — are you not satisfied? Is four square miles in one bomb not enough? Men are still thinking. Just tell us how big you want it!

Duty is ours; consequences are God's.

The Civil War defined us as what we are and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad things... It was the crossroads of our being, and it was a hell of a crossroads.

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

A battle that you win cancels all your mistakes.

People who are anxious to bring on war don't know what they are bargaining for; they don't see all the horrors that must accompany such an event.

If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals.

You must not blame us scientists for the use which war technicians have put our discoveries.

The Bill of Life was signed, the Unwind Accord went into effect, and the war was over. Everyone was so happy to end the war, no one cared about the consequences

Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man.

If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals. And I think he's right. He, and I'd say I, were behaving as war criminals.

Duty is ours; the consequences are the Lord God's

People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale.

Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful.

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.