Quotes About Consequences

For great wrongdoing there are great punishments from the gods.

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

He left not knowing where he was going, he got there not knowing where he was, and he came back not knowing where he had been. But history books will point out Columbus as the person who made the Americas available for exploitation. I guess I can make the same kind of ridiculous claim.

Quando a gente é aquilo que finge ser, é castigada por isso, é como se fosse uma lei.

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death.

He for himself weaves woe who weaves for others woe, and evil counsel on the counselor recoils.

A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it

He's only harming himself who's bent upon harming another

Plan harm for another and harm yourself most, The evil we hatch always comes home to roost.

For every time she shouted "Fire!"They only answered "Little liar!"And therefore when her aunt returned,Matilda, and the house, were burned.

But at what price? What would she have to block out, just to go from one day to the next? You'll never understand the choice I've had to make. Either way, her life is over. Living like that; or prison. It's the end. Either one will break her.

God knows what risks we take, God knows all that Danton has done. God and Camille. God will keep his mouth shut.

Statements, indictments, bills are circulated, shuffled between judges, prosecutors, the Attorney General, the Lord Chancellor's office; each step in the process clear, logical, and designed to create corpses by due process of law.

Men pay for crimes, but not necessarily their own.

Men like Carew, he knows, tend to blame him, Cromwell, for Anne's rise in the world; he facilitated it, he broke the old marriage and let in the new. He does not expect them to soften to him, to include him in their companionship; he only wants them not to spit in his dinner.

At the front, people die for their mistakes. Why should politicians be more gently treated? They made the war. They deserve a dozen deaths, each of them. What can we try them for, except for treason, and how can you punish treason, except by death?

No ruler in the history of the world has ever been able to afford a war. They're not affordable things. No prince ever says, 'This is my budget, so this is the kind of war I can have.' You enter into one and it uses up all the money you've got, and then it breaks you and bankrupts you.

Men have been known to do anything and everything.

Listen, son, this is what I know: right is what you can get away with, and wrong is what they whip you for. As I'm sure life will instruct you, by and by

Is a man a victim, who walks onto a knife? Are you innocent, if you set up the damage for yourself?

The fate of peoples is made like this, two men in small rooms. Forget the coronations, the conclaves of cardinals, the pomp and processions. This is how the world changes:

It seems there is no mercy in this world, but a kind of haphazard justice: men pay for crimes, but not necessarily their own.