Quotes About Consequences

Freedom of expression comes with responsibilities, especially when it comes with serious implications for peace.

Two sorts of peace are more to be dreaded than all the troubles in the world — peace with sin, and peace in sin.

Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

Violence brings only temporary victories; violence, by creating many more social problems than it solves, never brings permanent peace.

It is useless to attack men who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position.

Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.

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.

Peace through superior violence inevitably leads to the atom bomb and all that it stands for.

War, what's it good for? Absolutely nothing. Say it again.

If you are required to kill someone today, on the promise of a political leader that someone else shall live in peace tomorrow, believe me, you are not only a double murderer, you are a suicide, too.

so few people realize that preparedness never leads to peace, but that it is indeed the road to universal slaughter.

Violence breeds violence. Acts of violence committed in "justice" or in affirmation of "rights" or in defense of "peace" do not end violence. They prepare and justify its continuation.

Selfish act is very tempting but it leaves a permanent dent on your character.

The man who pets a lion may tame it, but the man who coddles the body makes it ravenous.

People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.

It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.

The reason I can't follow the old eye-for-an-eye philosophy is that it ends up leaving everyone blind.

And don't tell me the end justifies the means because it doesn't. We never reach the end. All we ever get is means. That's what we live with.

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.

Time to go inward would you believe that I'm afraid to stare down the barrel of choices I have made.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

You play with ice - you get cold.You play with fire - you get burnt.you play with me - you get lucky.

You can never hurt anyone without hurting yourself.