Quotes About Consequences

I'm not a believer in predetermined fates, being rewarded for one's efforts. I'm not a believer in karma. The reason why I try to be a good person is because I think it's the right thing to do. If I commit fewer bad acts there will be fewer bad acts, maybe other people will join in committing fewer bad acts, and in time there will be fewer and fewer of them.

As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.

Los niños con apego seguro están más capacitados para regular sus emociones y tomar decisiones acertadas. Están más preparados para prever las consecuencias de las cosas, tener en cuenta las perspectivas de los demás y actuar de manera constructiva y beneficiosa, no perjudicial y destructiva. Naturalmente, eso facilita las cosas al niño y al progenitor, así como la relación entre ambos.

An inability to be guided by a "healthy fear" of bad consequences is a disastrous flaw.

We all have a need for the reassuring message that actions have appropriate consequences, and that success will reward wisdom and courage. Many business books are tailor-made to satisfy this need.

There are consequences for just expressing generally conservative views. And if those views take on the more extreme dint, the judgment can be swift.

While some wars are planned, others result from each side retaliating in ways it views as proportionate but viewed by the other side as disproportionate.

Overly vigorous investigations of ominously ill-defined 'bullying' can themselves constitute a form of bullying.

There is no way you are going to be forgiven for blowing up a village and killing a bunch of people.

One murder made a villain, Millions a hero.

The problem with tactical novelties that might lead to a manager being hailed as a hero is that if they do not come off they are the villain.

Villains have to be passionate enough to say to themselves, 'I will do anything.' It's a certain type of personality that in life, for me, is not the way I live. Because you can't live in a society that way.

There is sometimes an almost vindictive streak in politics whereby governments follow policies which they know will harm the electorate, but nonetheless, they keep them, sometimes for years. The Corn Laws are a classic example.

For his own vindictive purposes, Jeffrey Sterling carelessly disclosed extremely valuable, highly classified information that he had taken an oath to keep secret.

My impression is the Trump administration is in imminent danger of violating the gunfighter's credo, which is 'Do not pick seven fights if you are carrying a six shooter.'

I never thought the NCAA violations for the phone call would ever rise to the level it did.

Every State has the primary duty to protect its own population from grave and sustained violations of human rights, as well as from the consequences of humanitarian crises, whether natural or man-made.

All the good work in the world will not compensate for the damage that a single facet of the business, or a rogue individual, can do. Insider trading, environmental damage, human-rights violations, and opportunistic practices erode trust and result in net negative impact.

People that have integrity violations should be fired, not coached. How many integrity violations does it take to ruin the reputation of your company? Just one. You don't coach integrity violations. You fire them.

Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.

Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.

Violence is not funny.

I've learned that intelligence alone doesn't mean a damn thing. It only leads to violence and pain.

My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.