Quotes About Consequences

One does evil enough when one does nothing good.

Tante volte non ci rendiamo conto che le cose che facciamo per la prima volta sono punti di non ritorno. Nel bene e soprattutto nel male . Se sono sbagliate, nessuno ce le restituirà mai più.

Chi non ha i nomi per la sofferenza la agisce, la esprime volgendola in violenza, con conseguenze spesso tragiche.

Le parole sono anche atti, dei quali è necessario fronteggiare le conseguenze.

strategy can never be divorced from the costs of implementing it.

When I hear about people murdering, I wonder, What has to go through your brain to say, I don't want him breathing anymore? What makes you get that angry? How can you take someone's breath away? That just blows my mind.

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.

On retarde une échéance, on se croit capable de gérer la fuite, jusqu'au jour où une main nous saisit par le collet et nous ramène à la case départ. Je suis de plus en plus convaincu que nous ne gouvernons que partiellement nos petites vies

Mais c'est toujours ainsi en temps de guerre : les chefs aiment à décréter, du fond de leur quartier général, l'ordre de se faire tuer sur place, alors même qu'il suffirait d'un léger déplacement latéral pour éviter l'obus.

There are consequences to your desires that you will regret, no matter how much you imagine your evils are unintended.

Having an unresolved Bad Boyfriend issue is like carrying around credit card debt . . . which can still show up and wreck your rating.

Lice breeds lice, and sin breeds sin.

When you are keeping a secret from someone, and that person dies, the secret becomes impossible to dislodge from inside you.

freedom is only ever a fall without a net.

People that put themselves above others will fall longer and harder.

El problema es que se puede diagnosticar un ataque de pánico muy a la ligera, con el consiguiente riesgo de llamar pánico a una crisis histérica, o a la ansiedad generalizada, o a una fase de angustia profunda o, peor aún, a una verdadera patología orgánica, con consecuencias a veces realmente funestas.

Por lo que tengo que deciros, señoras mías, que a quien te la hace se la hagas; y si no puedes, que no se te vaya de la cabeza hasta que lo consigas, para que lo que el burro da contra la pared lo mismo reciba.

What Hitler taught us–to an extent greater than anyone else in history, though we would become aware of it again in Vietnam–is that a licence to kill creates a momentum which defies moral sensibility and discernment and destroys the capacity of the individual to distinguish between good and evil or, and this is perhaps even worse, to act against a recognized wrong.

Apart from the Punic Wars, I've been blamed for just about everything.

I rather wished I'd stabbed him somewhere less awkward.

There's always someone's father, someone's mother, someone's wife, someone's son. This is the problem with killing and eating people. One of the problems.

He was quiet, cooperative. He'd made his decision. He knew his soul would have to deal with the consequences, but for now, God had lost. It was a relief to him. It always is, to find the edge of yourself. To know the exact limit of your strength. It's a relief because not knowing it is an exhausting full-time job.

You shut your door to these poor women," he said so they could hear him, "and you'll answer for it the rest of your lives. You won't sleep. You'll choke on drinks. The food you eat'll block up your bowels and you'll die of your own shit.

If you catch them in an early lie, they learn their lesson and so they don't continue to do it. But if you don't call them on early lies, they only get worse, bigger, and more dangerous.