Quotes About Consequences

He who is the cause of another's greatness is himself undone, since he must work either by address or force, each of which excites distrust in the person raised to power.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby becomes a monster.

Our ancestors pay the price for who we are

And I thought -- when you're a half-hour late, and your friends think you're in jail, it's probably a sign you steal too much.

Any fool can start a war, and once he's done so, even the wisest of men are helpless to stop it - especially if it's a nuclear war.

ADAM AND EVE, sitting in Paradise, chatting: If we could only open the gate and leave, says Eve. To go where, my dearest? If we could only open the gate and leave! Outside is sickness, pain, death! If we could only open the gate and leave!

He felt the same way about pulling teeth as he did about amputating limbs, hating to take away something he was never going to be able to put back.

The number of people killed by the sanctions in Iraq is greater than the total number of people killed by all weapons of mass destruction in all of history.

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

The change that Trump is likely to bring will be harmful or worse, but it is understandable that the consequences are not clear to isolated people in an atomized society lacking the kinds of associations (like unions) that can educate and organize.

Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.

So we march on, following our leaders, toward an "Armageddon of our own making.

Small differences in a system of great power can have enormous consequences. [Source: Al Jazeera 'Upfront' interview]

Our philosophy is to rob everything as much as possible and forget about tomorrow...But it makes a certain sense if the sole human value is making as much wealth as you can tomorrow. You don't care what happens down the road and you don't care what happens to anybody else. It makes perfect sense. If it destroys the world, well, it's not my problem.

Victors do not investigate their own crimes, so that little is known about them...

The economic consequences of these policies have been the same just about everywhere, and exactly what one would expect: a massive increase in social and economic inequality, a marked increase in severe deprivation for the poorest nations and peoples of the world, a disastrous global environment, an unstable global economy and an unprecedented bonanza for the wealthy.

Destroying hope is a critically important project. And when it is achieved, formal democracy is allowed—even preferred, if only for public relation purposes. In more honest circles, much of this is conceded. Of course, it is understood much more profoundly by beasts in men's shapes who endure the consequences of challenging the imperatives of stability and order.

No doubt a propaganda system is more effective when its doctrines are insinuated rather than asserted, when it sets the bounds for possible thought rather than simply imposing a clear and easily identifiable doctrine that one must parrot—or suffer the consequences.

The logic is that of a man falling from a skyscraper who waves to a friend on the fiftieth floor and says it's all fine, just look how many floors I've passed with no problems.

Es sabido desde hace mucho tiempo que si se produjera un primer ataque de una gran potencia, incluso si ninguna otra respondiera, probablemente destruiría la civilización por las consecuencias del invierno nuclear que provocaría. Hay información sobre este asunto en el Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, así que es bien conocido. El peligro siempre ha sido mucho más grave de lo que pensábamos

It is of no particular interest that one man is quite happy to lie in behalf of a cause which he knows to be unjust; but it is significant that such events provoke so little response in the intellectual community—no feeling, for example, that there is something strange in the offer of a major chair in humanities to a historian who feels it to be his duty to persuade the world that an American-sponsored invasion of a nearby country is nothing of the sort.

People who say not to speak ill of the dead are hypocrites, because you can take it ot the bank they're thinking ill.

She left me because she could, because I made a choice that allowed her to walk away. I could make her proud of me, proud of what she'd accomplished in me, but I could never make her love me.

No second chance? A wry smile twisted Carrick's lips. There might have been, had I not waited so long to take it.