Quotes About Consequences

America comes with both rights and responsibilities. You have, for example, the right to free speech, but you have the responsibility to not yell 'fire' in a crowded theater. If you don't live up to that responsibility, you face certain consequences. It's a simple but effective formula. Unfortunately, tenured professors are completely insulated from it. They can scream fire in their classrooms all they want - and then hide behind their tenure if anyone questions them on it.

Beyond all the other reasons not to do it, free speech assaults always backfire: they transform bigots into martyrs.

Sono consapevole delle ritorsioni a cui mi espongo […] eppure potrò ritenermi soddisfatto nel momento in cui la commistione di leggi segrete, le grazie iniquamente distribuite e gli incontrastabili poteri esecutivi che dominano il mondo che amo verranno a galla, anche solo per un istante».

knew from my years of writing about NSA abuses that it can be hard to generate serious concern about secret state surveillance: invasion of privacy and abuse of power can be viewed as abstractions, ones that are difficult to get people to care about viscerally.

Only after I saw women who were attracted to distant, condescending, even violent men did I begin to understand that having a distant, condescending, even violent father could make those qualities seem inevitable, even feel like home. Because of my father, only kindness felt like home.

The hell you pass through is not as severe as the one you would create for yourself out of it.

Sonny Hey, whataya gonna do, nice college boy, eh Didn't want to get mixed up in the Family business, huh Now you wanna gun down a police captain. Why Because he slapped ya in the face a little bit Hah What do you think this is the Army, where you shoot 'em a mile away You've gotta get up close like this and bada-bing. you blow their brains all over your nice Ivy League suit.

So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just our intentions.

There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse.

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.

It is not so much the major events as the small day-to-day decisions that map the course of our living. . . Our lives are, in reality, the sum total of our seemingly unimportant decisions and of our capacity to live by those decisions.

Anger is the mother of a whole brood of evil actions.

Acts of government are not choices between good and bad. They are between two evils – the lesser of two evils. Someone is always going to get hurt by a decision of government . . . absolute morality, absolute ethics just does not exist in affairs of the state.'99

What if Captain Smythe did not reject his orders? What if Captain Smythe was not there at all? What if instead of soldiers they

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored," said Aldous Huxley.

For China, yesterday poisons today and robs tomorrow.

History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen," said British politician Enoch Powell.

If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot.

Anger and Folly walk cheek by jole; Repentance treads on both their Heels.

Those who forget the pasta are condemned to reheat it.

Those who play with cats must expect to be scratched.

An American will go to hell for a bag of coffee.

If you read someone else's diary, you get what you deserve.

Borrowing is the mother of trouble.