Quotes About Consequences

The legacy of unregulated wealth creation is bitter indeed.

Since 1973, however, free-market theorists had re-emerged, vociferous and confident, to blame endemic economic recession and attendant woes upon 'big government' and the dead hand of taxation and planning that it placed upon national energies and initiative. In many places this rhetorical strategy was quite seductive to younger voters with no first-hand experience of the baneful consequences of such views the last time they had gained intellectual ascendancy, half a century before.

the Union's democratic deficit could easily turn from unconcern into hostility, into a sense that decisions were being taken 'there' with unfavourable consequences for us 'here' and over which 'we' had no say: a prejudice fuelled by irresponsible mainstream politicians but fanned by nationalist demagogues.

I wonder if we're truly subverting anything, or if we're just playing with a loaded gun.

Things you have now, things you've lost. People who're near by, people who've gone far away. No matter what you choose, truth is, both regret and reluctance are going to follow you around. You just have to make sure you don't make excuses to yourself down the road.

You can't erase your past. And as long as you have a past, you're just like everyone else. You have to learn to live with that. It matters...eventually the choices you make today will be part of that past. So think about it, and decide how you want to live.

Life is a million choices, and every choice is a choice not to do something else, and so regrets accrue with life.

They had known that it would happen. Yet they had not prevented it. Their world had been overused, abused, their forests logged, their precious fossil fuels wasted, their rich obscenely wealthy, their poor reduced to beggary. They had been powerful enough to put up the satellites, they had plated the landscape with their roads, crisscrossed it with their machines. And now where were they?

She attributed this to having got drunk for the first time at the age of fifteen at a dormy feast on cheap sweet sherry; the memory of that hangover would have caused a girl with less courage to swear off alcohol for life.

Sin that is confessed brings relief to life, but confession alone does not free a person from the oppression of sin. While repentance, the turning away from sin and the turning toward a godly life, will not free a person from the results and consequences of sin, it will free him from the guilt and tyranny of sin.

Most of the time when people are wrong they try to hide it, reason it away, or simply try to ignore and forget it. If we saw the awfulness of sin from God's perspective it would make a difference in how we live.

Did God hate the people? No! He knew what sin would do. He knew sin unchecked would bring on greater devastation than the consequences of His discipline. Repenting of sin will not cause the problems that living with sin will cause. Repentance brings healing.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. —AMBROSE BIERCE

Du hast dir selber eins übergebraten! Kannst du dich noch daran erinnern, wie gemein du deswegen zu mir warst?« Gideon grinste schwach. »Ja, kann ich. Und es tut mir ehrlich leid. Aber wer rechnet denn auch mit so was? Jetzt komm schon! Bevor der Blödmann wieder aufwacht.

Things don't just happen, they have reasons. And the reasons have reasons. And the reasons for the reasons have reasons. And then the things that happen make other things happen, so they become reasons themselves. Nothing moves forward in a straight line, nothing is straightforward.

Alcohol. It sucks the life out of a face and replaces it with its own dumb shine of inanity. It's up to you. If you want to lose yourself, have a drink.

You can't make them unhappen. You can't just leave them behind, because once they've happened, they're part of you, part of your past, and their memories become part of your present, and their consequences become part of your future. Things that happen become you. And you can never leave yourself behind.

The maximum sentence was twenty years for each free phone call. Twenty years for each call! I was facing a worst-case scenario of 460 years.

There isn't any loving, romantic way to put this: I told Bonnie we needed to get married so she couldn't testify against me, and also so she could visit me if I landed in jail, which was looking like the way things were headed.

If the psychopath can "make" out of a situation, if there's any kind of reward on offer, they go for it, irrespective of risk or possible negative consequences.

The problems of today were caused by yesterday's technological successes, and the technological solutions to today's problems will cause the problems of tomorrow.

Displaying good character as a means of avoiding retribution after life is not just problematic but inherently selfish.

As Tick writes in War and the Soul, "Our society must accept responsibility for its warmaking. To the returning veterans, our leaders and people must say, 'you did this in our name and because you were subject to our orders, we lift the burden of your actions from you and take it onto our shoulders. We are responsible for you, for what you did and the consequences.

When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness.