Quotes About Consequences

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner."—Omar N. Bradley

A goal without real consequences is wishful thinking. Good follow-through doesn't depend on the right intentions. It depends on the right incentives.

Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life.

Si seguimos desarrollando la tecnología sin inteligencia o prudencia, puede que nuestro sirviente acabe siendo nuestro verdugo.

Fussell, Chris: "'Life is a series of choices—take accountability for yours.

Take 45 Minutes Instead of 43—Is Your Red Face Worth It?

If you haven't already accomplished at least one important task in the day, don't spend the last business hour returning a DVD to avoid a $5 late charge. Get the important task done and pay the $5 fine.

y qué coste le ha supuesto a la gente que has amado en el pasado?

Qué coste tendrá cada uno de ellos para ti y para la gente que te importa dentro de uno, tres, cinco y diez años? Míralo, óyelo, siéntelo.

If you could have a gigantic billboard anywhere with anything on it, what would it say and why? "Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life.

Qué es lo peor que puede pasar

We judged that a sudden, disorderly failure of Bear would have brought with it unpredictable but severe consequences for the functioning of the broader financial system and the broader economy, with lower equity prices, further downward pressure on home values, and less access to credit for companies and households.

Several thousand years from now, nothing about you as an individual will matter. But what you did will have huge consequences. This is the paradox of the ecological age. And it is why action to change global warming must be massive and collective.

Sin affects us in six basic ways.

Forgiveness Is Costly, But Not Forgiving Is More Costly

The better your decisions are, the more choices life gives you.

Life is political, not because the world cares about how you feel, but because the world reacts to what you do.

When meaning is drawn from killing, the risk is that more killing would bring more meaning.

Protest can be organized through social media, but nothing is real that does not end on the streets. If tyrants feel no consequences for their actions in the three-dimensional world, nothing will change.

The predominant view was that budgets should be balanced and money supplies tightened. This, as we know today, only made matters worse.

Does the history of tyranny apply to the United States? Certainly the early Americans who spoke of "eternal vigilance" would have thought so. The logic of the system they devised was to mitigate the consequences of our real imperfections, not to celebrate our imaginary perfection.

the early Americans who spoke of "eternal vigilance" would have thought so. The logic of the system they devised was to mitigate the consequences of our real imperfections, not to celebrate our imaginary perfection

Timothy Snyder

The logic of the system they devised was to mitigate the consequences of our real imperfections, not to celebrate our imaginary perfection. We