Quotes About Consequences

As Brigid Brophy has put it, it remains true that it is cruel to break people's legs, even if the statement is made by someone in the habit of breaking people's arms.

We have examined a number of ethical issues. We have seen that many accepted practices are open to serious objections. What ought we to do about it? This, too, is an ethical issue.

Just as a rat can be conditioned to press a lever in return for a reward of food, so a human being can be conditioned by professional rewards to ignore the ethical issues raised by animal experiments.

On the fourth anniversary of the war, peace seemed further away than ever. The military conspirators, and Billing, their pawn, had achieved their aims.

Whatever you fear will happen to you, booze will make it happen.

If you or I ever really accepted the moral responsibility for what we've done in our lifetime—we'd drop dead or go mad. Living creatures weren't made to understand what they do.

To save one life, Mr Tagomi had to take two. The logical, balanced mind cannot make sense of that

Am I being paid back for something I did? he asked himself. Something I don't know about or remember? But nobody pays back, he reflected. I learned that a long time ago: you're not paid back for the bad you do nor the good you do. It all comes out uneven at the end. Haven't I learned that by now, if I've learned anything?

I believe he's got a lot of courage to write that book. If the Axis had lost the war, we'd be able to say and write anything we wanted, like we used to; we'd be one country and we'd have a fair legal system, the same one for all of us.

Being crazy and getting caught at it, out in the open, turns out to be a way to wind up in jail.

In addition, no one today remembered why the war had come about or who, if anyone, had won.

Human beings had invented war, invented and manufactured the weapons, even invented the players, the fighters, the actors of the war. But they themselves could not venture forth, could not wage it themselves.

Fakat zaten çökmek üzere olan bir toplumda ne yapabilirsiniz? ÇökmüÅŸ kanunlara m? uyars?n?z? Kötü bir kanunu saymamak suç mu? Ya da kötülüÄŸe kullan?lan bir yemini bozmak suç mu?

is no moral in this novel; it is not bourgeois; it does not say they were wrong to play when they should have toiled; it just tells what the consequences were.

We made it up and then we were stuck with what we made up.

De manera que debo advertirle que cualquier cosa que piense podrá emplearse contra usted.

What will they accept, then?" Norm said, "Perky Pat herself." He was silent, then. "Oh good Lord," she said, appalled. "But if we win," Norm pointed out, "we win Connie Companion.

Camino a tu tumba, aún mantendrás la boca abierta para preguntar: ¿Qué es lo que he hecho?. Y serás enterrado así, con la boca abierta. Y nunca podré explicártelo, pensó Buckman. Sólo podré decirte una cosa: no llames jamás la atención de las autoridades. No nos intereses nunca. No hagas que deseemos saber cosas acerca de ti.

you're not paid back for the bad you do nor the good you do. It all comes out uneven at the end. Haven't I learned that by now, if I've learned anything?

If a witch offers you her love,you should take it. If you don't it's your own fault if bad things happen to you...

Maybe sometimes we don't do the right thing because the wrong thing looks more dangerous, and we don't want to look scared, so we go and do the

Ovo je Fritz: beskoristan je, kao što vidiš. Posve neodgovoran. No, s druge strane, Fritz se samo igrao pripovjeda?a. Da je pravi majstor poput urara, znao bi kako svaki ?in ima svoju posljedicu. Iza svakog tik slijedi tak. Iza re?enice - Bio jednom... - mora slijediti pri?a, ina?e ?e slijediti nešto drugo, a to može biti puno opasnije od pri?e.

Las afirmaciones de identidad no están libres de consecuencias. Limitan tanto como robustecen. Para mí, prefiero no tener una de esas identidades sencillas y públicas. No sé lo que soy, y no me apetece especialmente saberlo.

El aletiómetro advierte de aterradoras consecuencias si lord Asriel continúa investigando.