Quotes About Consequences

...a private who loses a rifle suffers far greater consequences than a general who loses a war.

War is sweet to those who haven't tasted it. Dulce bellum inexpertis.

I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.

They told me if I voted for Goldwater, he would get us into a war in Vietnam. Well, I voted for Goldwater and that's what happened.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

War makes murderers out of otherwise decent people. All wars, and all decent people.

Making bombs will only destroy us. It doesn't matter whether we use them or not. They will destroy us either way.

When you look at the startling ruins of Nuremberg, you are looking at a result of the war. When you look at the prisoners on view in the courthouse, you are looking at 22 of the causes.

The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.

I'm Beginning To Wonder If It Would Have Been Best Had The South Won The Civil War.

War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.

The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred.

Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them must share the guilt for the dead.

Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it's all over.

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

War is a series of disasters which result in a winner.

I never thought that my creation, would allow brothers to kill brothers. (after seeing his invention being used in war, The Airplane) Alberto Santos-Dumont

The Eastern front is like a house of cards. If the front is broken through at one point all the rest will collapse.

When it is over, if it is over, this war will have horrible consequences. Instead of having one Bin Laden, we will have 100 Bin Ladens.

The downfall of civilized states tends to come not from the direct assaults of foes, but from internal decay combined with the consequences of exhaustion in war.

Wars are not paid for in wartime. The bill comes later.

Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.

The Second World War took place not so much because no one won the First, but because the Versailles Treaty did not acknowledge this truth.

A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased