Quotes About Consequences

The worst crimes are not committed by evil degenerates, but by decent and intelligent people taking 'pragmatic' decisions.

It is important to grasp that boredom is one of the most common - and undesirable - consequences of 'unicameralism'. Boredom is a feeling of being 'dead inside'; that is to say, loss of contact with our instincts and feelings.

If everyone looked the other way, then everybody was in on it. If he looked the other way, he was as implicated as the rest. That's how he saw it, how he'd always seen things.

Reality always manages to make things much worse than that of which imagination can conjure.

Those who wish to eradicate evil are those who create it.

Try to destroy evil and you may find yourself become the very evil you first set out to destroy.

We leave behind what we do sow.

A Texas bank robber wrote his hold-up note on the back of his resume, on which he lied about his earlier robberies.

We're in a new world. We're in a world in which the possibility of terrorism, married up with technology, could make us very, very sorry that we didn't act.

He who will not worry about what is far off will soon find something worse than worry close at hand.

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

If my brother was made to kneel... you will never walk again.

You can't just wound the bear and run. He'll come after you.

I am not you and all my choices have already been made, good and bad.

He is no fool, Kublai. He understands far better than you realize. The khan's vast armies cannot return to being herdsmen, not anymore. He is riding the tiger now, my son. He dare not climb down.

Just as the kids are afraid of the dark, so too are grown ups scared of power. It lures, but, also, consumes. It's a game that mustn't never be taken lightly.

Genghis snorted. "Men always die in war. Their kings expect it. I want them to know that if they resist me, they are putting their hand in the mouth of a wolf. They will lose everything and they can expect no mercy.

You have no idea what you have done.

Hadn't we better turn it lower?" Tony whispered. "Eh, what? It's quiet enough, I think." Tony flung a hunted glance at the window. "You have let me listen in to Germany. If the police find out, there will be great trouble -" "There won't be any trouble at all," said Thomas. "You're in England, remember. You're free to tune in to any station you please.

Aesthetics have substantial political consequences. How one views oneself as beautiful or not beautiful or desirable or not desirable has deep consequences in terms of one's feelings of self-worth and one's capacity to be a political agent.

When I feel angry, I want to say something mean, or yell, or hit. But feeling like I want to is not the same as doing it. Feeling can't hurt anyone or get me into trouble, but doing can." (Bunny from picture book)

Sin hurts other people and grieves God, but it also corrodes us. Sin is a form of self-abuse.

It began to seem that the generals had got us into something they had no business doing.

all a guy can do is die once. The big difference is whether he dies clean - or dirty... ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")