Quotes About Consequences

I worked at a mortgage company, and after I left, most of the office went to jail.

I cheated on my wife for years. Had children with different mothers.

What motivates most people to change their behavior is consequences. No consequences? No behavior modification.

You can have the most wonderful motives for what you do, but if what you do harms other people, you're fooling yourself.

los economistas que observaron las consecuencias reales de una economía planificada de forma central llegaron a una conclusión muy diferente: que «existen demasiadas relaciones económicas, y resulta imposible tomarlas a todas en cuenta y coordinarlas de manera cuidadosa».

The old are not really smarter than the young, in terms of sheer brainpower. It is just that we have already made the kinds of mistakes that the young are about to make, and we have already suffered the consequences that the young are going to suffer if they disregard the record of the past.

Liberals take positions that make them look good and feel good — and show very little interest in the actual consequences for others, even when liberal policies are leaving havoc in their wake.

Dado que las elecciones democráticas se realizan siempre a corto plazo, los políticos tienen todos los incentivos para extraer tanta riqueza como les sea posible del capital fijo bajo su jurisdicción, ya sea a través de impuestos, de la imposición de cargas sobre la propiedad o de la expropiación. Solamente la conciencia del público sobre las consecuencias a largo plazo puede limitar esta forma de explotación.

Cuanto más grande sea la diferencia entre los precios del mercado libre y los precios decretados a través de leyes de control de precios, más graves serán las consecuencias del control de precios.

Through a misunderstanding one native visitor was shot on board one of the ships, and a dozen others were shot ashore, while the Europeans got off with the loss of one tablecloth and of a few hats which were stolen while they had them on their heads.

War is a violent teacher

The longer a war lasts, the more things tend to depend on accidents. Neither you nor we can see into them: We have to abide their outcome in the dark.

Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.

Those who do wrong to a neighbor when there is no reason to do so are the ones who persevere to the point of destroying him since they see the danger involved in allowing their enemy to survive.

Doing foolish things in an attempt 'to correct the past', like marrying the man whose baby you just aborted, isn't unusual at all. It's part of being human. What

So whenever a new technology emerges, it's worth trying to ask who will win and who will lose out as a result. The answer can often surprise us.

So bad decisions cast a long shadow. But the benefits of good decisions can last a surprisingly long time. And, for all the unintended consequences and unwelcome side effects of the inventions we've considered in these pages, overall they've had vastly more good effects than

La economía tiene que ver con la decisión de Yang Li.

Donald Trump was the snake. Everyone knew he was the snake. He told us he was the snake. Yet when the snake offered his spoiled fruit, these otherwise intelligent people took from the tree and ate it.

The consequences for public health have been nothing short of tragic, Teicholz said. It's quite likely, she argued, that by shifting towards a greater consumption of grains and other carbohydrates, the US guidelines have been a major contributor to the pandemics of obesity, diabetes and heart disease.

A miracle to confound natural law, a baffling reversal of the inevitable consequences . . . a miracle. . . . An act of high imagination -- daring and lurid and impossible. Yes, a cartoon of the mind.

You can't fix your mistakes. Once people are dead, you can't make them undead.

when a nation goes to war it must have reasonable confidence in the justice and imperative of its cause. You can't fix your mistakes. Once people are dead, you can't make them undead.

Oh, man, you fuckin' trashed the fucker, Azar said. You scrambled his sorry self, look at that, you did, you laid him out like Shredded fuckin' Wheat Go away, Kiowa said. I'm just saying the truth. Like oatmeal.