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Quotes About Consequences

A man like me should carry his burdens alone. If he doesn't people get hurt
~ Dennis O'Neil
Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty; it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic.
~ Edmund Burke
A man of pleasure is a man of pains.
~ Edward Young
The guilty man may escape, but he cannot be sure of doing so.
~ Epicurus
How do people come up with a date and a time to take life from another man? Who made them God?
~ Ernest Gaines
The gifts of bad men bring no good with them.
~ Euripides
The gift of a bad man can bring no good.
~ Euripides
Wrath brings mortal men their gravest hurt.
~ Euripides
Great riches have sold more men than they have bought.
~ Francis Bacon
For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their crimes.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
When any man accumulates more than he can earn with his own hands, he begins to enrich himself at the expense of the youth, the sweat, the blood, the joy of his fellow men.
~ Gene Stratton-Porter
When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy.
~ Gennaro Angiulo
The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature.
~ George Eliot
To men who only aim at escaping felony, nothing short of the prisoner's dock is disgrace.
~ George Eliot
Explain to me why it is more noble to kill ten thousand men in battle than a dozen at dinner.
~ George R. R. Martin
You kill men for the wrongs they have done, not the wrongs that they may do someday.
~ George R. R. Martin
One man sees a riselka: his life forks there. Two men see a riselka: one of them shall die. Three men see a riselka: one is blessed, one forks, one shall die.
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
The law does not require a man to cease to be a man, and act without regard to consequences, when he becomes a juror.
~ Lysander Spooner
Even a little untruth destroys a man, as a drop of poison ruins milk.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
God always saves the world from the consequences of unintended errors of men who live in fear of Him.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
If any man has done wrong, the harm is his own. But perhaps he has not done wrong.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Make sure to send a lazy man the angel of death.
~ Martin Luther
What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good.
~ Martin Luther
One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley