Quotes About Consequences

A lesson to people who think that, just because they're a little smarter and luckier than ordinary people, they can do as they please.' Lisa

at first I thought you were just using me she said I definitely am. I just wasn't sure for what. Asshole! she said, and punched me in the side. And she laughed as my kidney began to hemorrhage. That's the beauty of honesty. Everyones so unused to hearing it they just assume you're kidding, and you get to feel very good and forthcoming without suffering any consequences except for traces of blood in your urine for the next day or two.

Two wrongs don't make a right but sometimes they make me laugh. I am a vengeful god.

Just because you pretend the universe doesn't have teeth doesn't mean you won't get eaten in the end.

There are risks and costs to a program of action but they are far less than the long range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

Here at Sudan the students humiliated their teachers,' she said. 'But in the high schools it was not unknown for students to beat their teachers to death.

Bombe atomique hier, bombe informatique aujourd'hui et, demain, bombe génétique?

There was no one else to blame anymore. No Bores or Old Ladies or Nortons, or Assassins waiting at the bridge. And there was no place to hide-no place across any river for a boatman to take us. Our life would be what we made of it-nothing more, nothing less. Baboons. Baboons. They build their own cages, we could almost hear the Pigman whisper, as he took his children with him.

Some people were born unsupplied with a human conscience and those people needed killing.

It's not what enters men's mouth that is evil, said the alchemist. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

There are two kinds of idiots - those who don't take action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat.

Living is making decisions and dealing with the consequences.

It's now what enters men's mouths that's evil. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

I open the curtains in my office and see people out there, some walking and holding hands without having to worry about the consequences. And I can't show my love

The lack of attention to the smallest details can completely destroy a man's life

We're living in an age in which everything is allowed, and democracy is being devoured and destroyed by that limitless freedom.

every blessing ignored becomes a curse

It's not what enters men's mouths that's evil,...It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

What good is trying to reform if you have to spend the rest of your life paying for the stupid things you did when you still got high and didn't give a damn?

The mistakes of history bring relentless reprisals.

When O-lan saw what he had done she burst out in terror, "You have cut off your life!

The idea is that there are three opportunities to take measures to elicit or change the behavior as desired: by changing what comes before it (the external factors, or environment), by aiming directly at the behavior itself (through teaching), and by imposing consequences (incentives or penalties).

At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance.

When we start to ask ourselves, "Does it matter?" we realize how many aspects there are to every situation. We begin to appreciate how interconnected we are to the rest of the world, and how even our thought patterns can lead to a whole series of consequences