Quotes About Consequences

Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the moment he allows his actions to be ruled by passion.

The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.

You do not know me,' said Tortoise. 'I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself.

But for disloyalty to her husband a wife is censured among men, and ,in her next life she is born in the womb of a jackal and tormented by diseases, the punishment of her sin.

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous.

Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.

No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.

It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.

If one man tells you to murder, you get a jail cell - if another man tells you to murder, you get medals and a pension.

Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.

A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.

If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.

It is not important whether or not the interpretation is correct — if men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.

A crazy man finishes in the cemetery.

I used to drink, I did, I had to quit. Man, I was an embarrassing drunk. I'd get pulled over by the cops, I'd be so drunk I'd be out dancing to their lights thinking I'd made it to another club.

Men knew that if they devirginized a woman, they could end up dead within twenty-four hours. These controls have been removed.

If once a man delays castling and his king remains in the center, files will open up against him, bishops sweep the board, rooks will dominate the seventh rank, and pawns turn into queens.

Some men get the world, some men get ex-hookers and a trip to Arizona. You're in with the former, but my God I don't envy the blood on your conscience.

Kill one man and you're a murderer, kill a million and you're a conqueror.

One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god.

Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain.

Be sure that religion cannot be right that a man is the worse for having.

A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.