Quotes About Consequences

In America, we no longer have an institutionalized, organized way of calling business to task - of taking them to account for what they've done - and this is especially true in the cultural realm.

reaping the whirlwind:

People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.

If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.

Being smart spoils a lot of things, doesn't it?

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

The loss of the battle of Waterloo was the salvation of France.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

A great many intelligent and compassionate people have called residential schools a national tragedy. And they were. But perhaps "tragedy" is the wrong term. It suggests that the consequences of residential schools were unintended and undesired, a difficult argument to make since, as Ward Churchill points out, the schools were national policy

Wars are begun by frightened men.

Long exasperated by questions without answers, by answers without consequences, by truths which change nothing, we learn to become intoxicated by the mood of mystery itself, by the odor of the unknown. We are entranced by the subtle scents and wavering reflections of the unimaginable.

Life had overshot its target, blowing itself apart. A species had been armed too heavily—by spirit made almighty without, but equally a menace to its own well-being. Its weapon was like a sword without hilt or plate, a two-edged blade cleaving everything; but he who is to wield it must grasp the blade and turn one edge toward himself.

The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.

For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.

He had broken plenty of rules today. If he wasn't fired for it, he would break a few more.

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.

It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.

While the characters of men are forming, as is always the case in revolutions, there is a reciprocal suspicion, and a disposition to misinterpret each other; and even parties directly opposite in principle will sometimes concur in pushing forward the same movement with very different views, and with the hope of its producing very different consequences.

They'd be sitting somewhere out of sight waiting for him to turn the key and blow himself into a hundred thousand spoonfuls of hamburger.

Adam had unleashed a monster into the world.