Quotes About Consequences

If you're too busy being angry at the world, don't be surprised when the world returns serve.

A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says thinks or does is without consequences.

There are certain people who so ardently and passionately desire a thing that from dread of losing it they leave nothing undone to make them lose it.

Among a man's many good possessions, A good command of speech has no equal. Prosperity and ruin issue from the power of the tongue. Therefore, guard yourself against thoughtless speech.

Those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside

There is none of you but will hang me, I know, whenever you can clinch me within your power.

The more isolated a person is, the more destructive will be the power of sin over him, and the more deeply he becomes involved in it, the more disastrous is his isolation.

It is impossible to reign innocently.

Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant ... must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves.

The system shaves the dice on the side of those with money and power, and anyone who believes otherwise deserves anything that happens to him.

When you give politicians the power to do what you think is right you're automatically giving politicians the power to do what you think is wrong.

The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado.

Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.

He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.

We're all flawed heroes. Responsibility is power. Take responsibility for the consequences of your actions, and the world is yours. Everything is a choice.

Knowledge is power, and for each level of knowledge, you are held responsible for how you use it.

if you know whether a man is a decided monist or a decided pluralist, you perhaps know more about the rest of his opinions than if you give him any other name ending in IST. To believe in the one or in the many, that is the classification with the maximum number of consequences.

Never blame a legislative body for not doing something. When they do nothing, that don't hurt anybody. When they do something is when they become dangerous.

See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails

The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

We found ourselves discussing the three kinds of fateful choices that exist in the two books: the ones characters make knowing that they can never be undone; the ones they make thinking they can but learn they can't; and the ones they make thinking they can't and only later come to understand, when it's too late, when "nothing can be undone," that they could have.

when you are running away from something, it often ends up coming with you, especially if the thing you are running away from is your own behavior.

Wat is een held? Iemand die straffeloos onvoorzichtig is geweest.

God does not hinder the exercise of human freedom but rather anticipates its consequences.