Quotes About Consequences

No one can force you to become a monster – you hurt someone and you create your own demons.

But the finger I pointed at her turned back to me. I had loved her. Not only had I loved her, I had chosen her.

Violence only begets violence when we allow it to. We always have a choice.

When you act against gravity, you break your body. When you act against Love, you break your heart.

Each day we kill a compulsive love with our impulsive actions.

In her attempt to make me a good man, I made her a bad woman.

When you think and act opposite to love, you find yourself powerless and life becomes a frightening nightmare.

Sometimes we just want to be happy such that we don't care who gets hurt

There comes a point when you win, and you can either soothe the loser into thinking there was something in it for them or kick them while they're down to make sure they know what just happened.

She'd said she loved him. She'd put that impossible, unimaginably beautiful gift in his hands and he'd thrown it back at her. To save her. To save himself.

If no one has boundaries…how can there be any transgression?

Those who choose differently must suffer the consequences. They must take the pain their decisions bring.

Petty minds foster petty hearts, and have the funny habit of shooting themselves in the foot.

The ancestors will turn their backs against you and you will have bad luck forever if you leave the ANC unhappy

Ill-luck is, in nine cases out of ten, the result of taking pleasure first and duty second, instead of duty first and pleasure second.

Fortune definitely frowns upon all ill-gotten wealth, and often causes it to mysteriously evaporate.

The person who gives expression, by word of mouth, to negative or destructive thoughts is practically certain to experience the results of those words in the form of a destructive "kick-back." The release of destructive thought impulses, alone, without the aid of words, produces also a "kick-back" in more ways than one.

But this argument is found to be defective when examined in its effects and consequences.

You can win, for a time, through ruthlessness and stealth; you can garner in more of this world's goods than you will need, by sheer force and shrewd strategy, without taking the time or going to the trouble of being agreeable; but, sooner or later, you will come to that point in life at which you will feel the pangs of remorse and the emptiness of your well filled purse.

there is no hope for the person who is dishonest by choice. Sooner or later, his deeds will catch up with him, and he will pay by loss of reputation, and perhaps even loss of liberty.

The hypocrite thinks he can hood wink the world and the eternal law of the world. There is but one person that he hoodwinks, and that is himself, and for that the law of the world inflicts its righteous penalty.

When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself.

The simpler, the better. Complications lead to multiplicative chains of unanticipated effects.

Believe me, it is tough to deal with the social consequences of the appearance of continuous failure. We are social animals; hell is other people.