Quotes About Consequences

The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs.

When man violates man's laws, we send him to jail and point the finger of scorn at him. When he violates nature's laws, we send him to a hospital, give him flowers, and feel sorry for him.

Fracking kills, and it doesn't just kill us. It kills the land, nature and, eventually, the whole world.

When you defile the pleasant streams, And the wild bird's abiding place, You massacre a million dreams, And cast your spittle in God's face

In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible ; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another.

As we kill nature, we are killing ourselves, and God incarnate as the world as well.

Still, I have been no one's enemy but my own. My easy nature, either in drinking or anything else, was always ready to submit to persuasions of profligate companions, who often led me into snares.

And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.

Massage is the only form of physical pleasure to which nature forgot to attach consequences.

Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder.

Actions have consequences. Ignorance about the nature of those actions does not free a person from responsibility for the consequences. (28)

You wouldn't think you could kill an ocean, would you? But we'll do it one day. That's how negligent we are.

People thought they could explain and conquer nature-yet the outcome is that they destroyed it and disinherited themselves from it.

Why is it taking so long to believe that if we hurt Nature, we hurt ourselves?

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny. It hath been Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne And fall of many kings.

All pain is per se and especially in excess, destructive and ultimately fatal in its nature and effects.

Nature has no use for the plea that one 'did not know'.

Capricious, wanton, bold, and brutal Lust Is meanly selfish; when resisted, cruel; And, like the blast of Pestilential Winds, Taints the sweet bloom of Nature's fairest forms.

In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.

When you abort the first born of any, nature takes its vengeance on the subsequent children.

Brand a man as a thief and no one will ever hire him for honest labor - he will be a hardened robber within weeks. The brand does not reveal a person's nature, it shapes it.

Having rationally endeavored to control nature, is he not now becoming the slave of the objects which he makes?

Man lives in the house of nature. If he destroys the house, he shall be destroyed as well!