Quotes About Consequences

That the Islamic State is guilty of horrific atrocities is common knowledge. But most Americans seem unaware of the human toll of our own actions, the consequences this has for our national security and our reputation, and that, too often, the civilian casualties we cause are the result of avoidable mistakes. This must change.

I find the violence in PG13 movies unbearable. This kid will never run home, never have another birthday. His death is slow, nightmarish. And you have to explore the consequences - the people who live on with this death.

It's really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn't even more fraud. After all, with no God, there's no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.

What is indisputable is the fact that unbelief is the force that gives birth to all of our bad behavior and every moral failure. It is the root.

It is actually unbelievable that somebody would be deprived of his livelihood for expressing an opinion that he's entitled to.

The problem with the U.S. foreign policy is that we're just so unbelievably powerful. And when you've got that kind of power, it's very hard not to use it.

If we hand over a planet with an uncertain future, history will not forgive us.

In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes

I hate to think that someday Americans will be looking at the ruins of their cities and saying that this happened because their leaders were afraid of the word unilateral.

Germany lost the Second World War. Fascism won it. Believe me, my friend.

War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.

To win a war is as disasterous as to lose one.

This war is being played in the realm of public opinion and has dire consequences for our soldiers in Iraq, the future of our country, and freedom around the world.

Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction.

That we have collectively failed to halt and repudiate the war in Iraq makes us even worse than the Germans.

From hence, let fierce contending nations know, what dire effects from civil discord flow.

How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man?

Accurst be he that first invented war.

War is a farmer's son from Kansas trying to kill a factory worker's son from Berlin, with neither of them knowing why.

I don't know if anyone ever 'wins' a war.

War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war.

Ironically enough, the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the stress of modern war are psychotics. Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity.

We Germans carried our hatred from the First World War to the Second World War, and now you are about to carry the hatred about the murder of 5 million people on to another World War.

War on the cheap is always a rotten policy.