Quotes About Consequences

I have brought you to the treasure house of the world. If you leave without it you may henceforth blame nobody but yourself.

I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Abandoned babies are unfortunate unwanted results of a once urgent desire to have an orgasm

Ever since the arrival of printing - thought to be the invention of the devil because it would put false opinions into people's minds - people have been arguing that new technology would have disastrous consequences for language.

Since causing massive unnecessary harm is wrong if anything is wrong, the judgement that factory farming is an indefensible institution seems inescapable.

Arrogance wasn't the same thing as stupidity, but it tended to have similar results.

Upon the exposure of his bribery, it is reported he said, "I should have paid more.

Most people seem to believe that not only is it permissible to turn the train down the spur, it is actually required—morally obligatory.

Each decision that we make comes with a hidden price. We're never told what it is we may be asked to sacrifice.

Some folks say That he's my son! I guess it's possible, you know. I've had so many one-night stands, So many whams and bams and thank-me-ma'ams, I can't keep track of every mademoiselle. Plus, I'm not the type to kiss and tell.

Do something untoward and there is a good chance that it might be observed, recorded and, given time, judged.

Decisions, by all accounts, including those of the participants, were made with little knowledge of, or concern for, the lands and peoples about which and whom the decisions were being made.

But to see the ovens into which humans were fed was enough to implicate the high culture of Europe; its value was drawn into question once it was suspected that such a culture had culminated in Dachau and Auschwitz. (Page 451)

Anyone who exposes himself to the Devil, even in a movie, is exposing himself to real danger.…

When one has the means of getting everything, one winds up giving in to personal demons.

Pone merum et talos pereat qui crastina curat.

One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results. — Milton Friedman

I mean that it's all right to go to bed with an asshole but don't ever have a baby with one.

most people who do a great deal of harm in the world are protected against the knowledge that they do so.

the more we allow aspects of our everyday existence to fall under the purview of bureaucratic regulations, the more everyone concerned colludes to downplay the fact (perfectly obvious to those actually running the system) that all of it ultimately depends on the threat of physical harm.

We already know how this one goes. Humans were once living a 'fairly comfortable life', subsisting from the blessings of Nature, but then we made our most fatal mistake. Lured by the prospect of a still easier life - of surplus and luxury, or living like gods - we had to go and tamper with hat harmonious State of Nature, and thus unwittingly turned ourselves into slaves.

Si Asaf trecea uneori prin starea aceasta, dar nu stia cum sa o descrie in cuvinte si prefera sa nici nu încerce macar, pentru ca daca exprimi ceva in cuvinte, acel lucru ramane pentru totdeauna si te urmareste ca o sentinta pronuntata impotriva ta.

It really was truth or consequences, and Billy went with truth. It was just incredible." Forsaking public prominence, Strayhorn found personal freedom in service to the Duke Ellington Orchestra. Now there might not be a Billy Strayhorn Orchestra. But there was a Billy Strayhorn.

It was one of the great myths of that time that foreign policy was this pure and uncontaminated area which was never touched by domestic politics, and that domestic politics ended at the water's edge. The truth, in sharp contrast, was that all those critical decisions were primarily driven by considerations of domestic politics, and by political fears of the consequences of looking weak in a forthcoming domestic election.