Quotes About Consequences

If I was a bad guy, I probably would be incarcerated.

Audiences like to see the bad guys get their comeuppance.

Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.

If anybody has done bad things to me, then I must have done the same to them.

Foreign interventions always end badly.

All the nice girls in my life I have treated badly.

You can't just drop the 82nd Airborne into Baghdad and it will all be over.

What do you want me to do, rob a bank?

I've been thinking about a bank robbery my whole life.

It's wrong to rob banks, yeah, but is it right for banks to loan people money, knowing full well they can't pay it back?

You can't merge six banks and think that nothing will happen.

When you're mad at someone, it's probably best not to break his arm with a baseball bat.

If you militarise a situation, you beg for an armed response.

You can't talk your way out of something you behaved your way into.

Only criminals and bloodsuckers reward bad behavior.

If you get killed," she argued with a mix of despair and anger, "it's not just you who'll pay the price. I'll have to pay, too, you know, for the rest of my life. Doesn't that matter to you?

no people were ever yet benefitted by riches if their prosperity corrupted their virtue.

History, then, mattered enormously, for it could repeat itself at any time in any generation.12 And if that history brought tyranny, it was to be fought at all costs.

The justice system in the West has a lot of problems," Poe said, "but at least there are rules. You have basic rights as the accused. You have your day in court. You don't have any rights when you're accused on the Internet. And the consequences are worse. It's worldwide forever.

Was he right? It felt like a question that really needed answering because it didn't seem to be crossing any of our minds to wonder whether the person we had just shamed was okay or in ruins. I suppose that when shamings are delivered like remotely administered drone strikes nobody needs to think about how ferocious our collective power might be. The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche.

He said his worst days were when he allowed himself to hope for a second chance. The best were when he knew it was over forever and his destruction was necessary as a deterrent to others. I

Guy fell silent again. And then he said—and his voice sounded sorrowful and distressed—"Last week I killed my hamster." "Just by staring at it?" I asked. "Yes," confirmed Guy.

We are our choices

Politics can make people do terrible things