Quotes About Consequences

Even being good has unintended consequences. You're only human, after all.

Until we learn to stop dying Tom, we have to live with the consequences. There's no room for the dead unless you treat them as ornamental.

Nowadays people talk about the things he did as though they made sense. As though even his most disastrous mistakes were only the result of bad luck or hubris.

All our faults, vanities, idiocies, prejudices, cruelty. Do you really want augmented humans, superhumans, uploaded humans, forever humans, with all the shit that comes with us? Morally and spiritually, we are barely crawling out of the sea onto dry land. We're not ready for the future you want. Have we ever been ready? said Victor. Progress is a series of accidents, of mistakes made in a hurry, of unforeseen consequences.

le luxe est l'effet des richesses, ou il les rend nécessaires; il corrompt à la fois le riche et le pauvre, l'un par la possession, l'autre par la convoitise; il vend la patrie à la mollesse, à la vanité; il ôte à l'Etat tous ses citoyens pour les asservir les uns aux autres, et tous à l'opinion.

Pero la indolencia, el descuido y las dilaciones en los pequeños deberes que tenía que llenar, me han hecho más daño que los grandes vicios.

sé concebir qué moralidad puede resultar de sus efectos. Ceder a la fuerza es un acto de necesidad y no de voluntad; cuando más es un acto de prudencia.

Could integrity be the daughter of ignorance? Could knowledge and virtue be incompatible? What consequences could we not draw from these opinions? But to reconcile these apparent contradictions, it is necessary only to examine closely the vanity and the emptiness of those proud titles which dazzle us and which we hand out so gratuitously to human learning.

When anger is in control, you get unintended consequences.

Father: And when anger is the boss, you get- Doon: Unintended consequences.

Crockett and James Bowie got what was coming to them," Mom said, "for stealing this land from the Mexicans

Slow down, Sallie." Tom puts a hand on my arm, and then in a gentler voice says, "Your aunt will be okay. We'll see to that." "She wouldn't have got hurt if I'd been there." "Sallie, I don't know if that's true, and you don't either. But I do know you couldn't stay in Hatfield when the Duke sent for you. You had to come back. You had no choice.

Six months later, Maureen stabbed Mom.

Thus it amounts to the same thing whether one gets drunk alone or is a leader of nations.

Men get the war they deserve.

That is the idea I shall try to convey when I say that man is condemned to be free. Condemned, because he did not create himself, yet, in other respects is free; because, once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. The existentialist does not believe in the power of passion. He will never agree that a sweeping passion is a ravaging torrent which fatally leads a man to certain acts and is therefore an excuse. He thinks that man is responsible for his passion.

Most people don't go to work and beat up a 13-year-old. It's a really freaky thing.

When you don't work for a while, immediately you get a little black mark next to your name.

You can't just sit around in leopard-print slippers and drink champagne all day and think everything's gonna work out somehow.

History isn't a seesaw. If you have a really bad regime on one side, the actions on the other side don't automatically become good. It doesn't work that way.

Those who inflict must suffer, for they see The work of their own hearts, and this must be Our chastisement or recompense.

Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.

It's easy to make a mess when you're not the one who has to clean it up.

In my view, the only recourse for a scientist concerned about the social consequences of his work is to remain involved with it to the end.