Quotes About Consequences

We already know that anonymous letters are despicable. In etiquette, as well as in law, hiring a hit man to do the job does not relieve you of responsibility.

The man who seeks revenge digs two graves.

It is not by great acts but by small failures that freedom dies. . . . Justice and liberty die quietly, because men first learn to ignore injustice and then no longer recognize it.

If any young man wants to be a true temperance man let him go and get the delirium tremens, that'll settle it.

It affords a violent prejudice against almost every science, that no prudent man, however sure of his principles, dares prophesy concerning any event, or foretell the remote consequences of things.

In the long run, every man will pay the penalty for this own misdeeds.

When people ask if the United States can afford to place on trial the president, if the system can stand impeachment, my answer is, "Can we stand anything else?

The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices. The physician does not preach repentance; he offers absolution.

Remove the document—and you remove the man.

A consciousness of misfortunes arising from a man's own misconduct aggravates their bitterness.

You might as well ask why a middle-aged man with no criminal record might put a paper bag over his head and rob a bank. I acted out of personal desperation.

A hard lesson had been learned--that man himself suffers most when his hand despoils the earth and robs it of its legitimate fruits.

God is going to punish the white man for his misdeeds toward black people.

The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences.

If you can create even the illusion of high profitability for a few years, then when the thing collapses you can walk out of the wreckage a very rich man.

Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny.

Do not reproach a man with his misfortunes, fearing lest Nemesis may overtake you.

Lying is a most disgraceful vice; it first despises God, and then fears men.

A man can't hit a woman and stay a man. He becomes a loathsome thing, even to himself. But the woman who stays with such a man panders to his darkness. They both risk their souls.

It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at either end provided there is a sufficient wick standing out.

Don't you know the man whose life you spare will always hate you?

The Greatest evils inflicted by man over the face of the Earth are wrought not by the self-seekers, the pleasure lovers, or the merely amoral, but by the fervent devotees of ethical principles.

Greed makes man blind and foolish, and makes him an easy prey for death.

If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.