Quotes About Consequences

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could have been.

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.

If he tried to pull her out of the trap she had ridden into, he could easily get himself killed. Gisele felt certain that she would

Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.

I don't want any funny business, and above all I don't want to be dragged into other people's funny business. If it's to be my head on the block, I want to know that it's doing there, and not that it's some stupid things that other people have done.

Bu kitab? da ismine adad???m?z Charles Nicolle, 1909'da tifüsün bit arac?l???yla geçti?ini ke?fetmi?ti. Sava?ç?lar, politikac?lar, milliyetçiler ve sava?lardan sorumlu olan di?er insanlar, dünyay? bir yüz y?l daha rahat b?raksayd? bu bulu?, Bat?'daki epidemik tifüsün sonu anlam?na gelebilirdi.

There's always a price you pay when you lie. Once you introduce a lie into a relationship, even for the best of intentions, it is always there. Whenever you're with that person again, that lie is in the room too. It sits on your shoulder. Good lie or bad lie, it's in the room with you forever now. It's your constant companion.

No one starts a war—or rather, no one in his senses ought to do so—without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by that war and how he intends to conduct it.

The author says that though the Mexican War wound down, the interpretation of it was just beginning.

History is apt to judge harshly those who sacrifice tomorrow for today.

You're getting two C-notes and a one-way ticket. Make sure you never come back this way." He jerked back on her finger. She screamed. "You broke it!" "Your friend don't want to hear from you again, no how, capiche?" She sobbed, dizzy, ready to pass out. "Now when I say no how, he don't want to hear from any lawyer, either. You capiche that?

Wrong behavior carries with it the seeds of its own retribution.

that we got what we deserved in life.

There is no right way to do a wrong thing.

Perhaps," said Miss Ophelia, "it is impossible for a person who does no good not to do harm.

But who, sir, makes the trader? Who is most to blame? The enlightened, cultivated, intelligent man, who supports the system of which the trader is the inevitable result, or the poor trader himself? You make the public statement that calls for his trade, that debauches and depraves him, till he feels no shame in it; and in what are you better than he?

A very humane jurist once said, The worst use you can put a man to is to hang him. No; there is another use that a man can be put to that is WORSE!

A very humane jurist once said, 'The worst use you can put a man to is to hang him.' No; there is another use that a man can be put to that is worse!

Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good not to do harm.

It's different up here, you know." "I know," said Laura miserably. "I was -- enjoying myself, that's all." Nick watched her for a moment. "Don't look so tragic about it, Laura. It's not a crime to enjoy yourself, you know." "Yes, it is," muttered Laura, feeling as if she were in some biblical parable, the one where the Lord wreaks vengeance on the stupid girl who is a foolish wanton by removing the last shred of common sense in her brain.

Elle Remembered Yorkshire road and the flat he shared with Caitlin and their daughter, and she almost stopped and turned back, and then she hardened herself against it. It's his problem if he wants to sleep with someone and he shouldn't, she told herself. It's a one night thing. I'm in the clear. It's sex, nothing else.

She knew she could drink up to a certain point, but after that she never did anything interesting like dancing on the bar with her top off or snogging random strangers. She would merely fall over and then probably be sick.

In my professional work I am struck by how often sibling relationships fall apart around the life-cycle stage of caring for elderly parents, and dealing with a parents death and it's aftermath. Failed apologies have the most serious consequences at stressful points in the life-cycle, and loss is the most challenging adaptational task that family members have to come to terms with.