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Quotes About Consequences

If a man teach uprightly and walk crookedly, more will fall down in the night of his life than he built in the day of his doctrine.
~ John Owen
I'm not someone who usually sends out threats. I warn only once. The day they touch one of my men, the rule of law is over.
~ Augusto Pinochet
The essence of drama is that man cannot walk away from the consequences of his own deeds.
~ Harold Hayes
The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
There is nothing more dangerous than a humiliated man.
~ Nelson Mandela
Well, killing a man isn't clean and quick and simple. It's bloody and awful. And maybe if enough people come to realize that shooting somebody isn't just fun and games, maybe we'll get somewhere.
~ Sam Peckinpah
It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin.
~ Abu Bakr
When the men in Russia foul up, they are dismisses, sometimes losing their necks. But we protect those who fail and press them to the government bosom.
~ Hyman Rickover
It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. You take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have.
~ Clint Eastwood
What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.
~ Virgil
Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
~ Jeremy Taylor
Never insult seven men when all your packing is a six-shooter.
~ Zane Grey
An honest man is in Hell when he is in debt.
~ J. Golden Kimball
What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet...
~ Robert Kennedy
Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth.
~ Ian McHarg
The moth unwitting rushes on the fire, Through ignorance the fish devours the bait, We men know well the foes that lie in wait, Yet cannot shun the meshes of desire.
~ Bhartrhari
Never draw a gun on a man unless you intend to kill him. And believe me, if you do intend to kill him he will already know it. Then he will feel the cold breath of the tomb.
~ George S. Patton
What is the world coming to when you get a red card and get fined two weeks' wages for calling a grown man a wanker?
~ Paul Gascoigne
Riches are a cause of evil, not because, of themselves, they do any evil, but because they goad men on to evil.
~ Posidonius
It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
~ Zelda Fitzgerald
Our men must win or die. Pompey's men have... other options.
~ Julius Caesar
Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of that time.
~ Douglas Hurd
From what I have observed, when the anesthesia of love wears off, there is always the pain of consequences. You don't have to be stupid to marry the wrong man.
~ Amy Tan
Oh, what a wicked world it is that drives a man to sin.
~ Mario Puzo