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Quotes About Consequences

Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
~ T.S. Eliot
And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
~ Marquis de Sade
What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
When I was a baby, my mama told me son, always be a good boy, don't ever play with guns. But I shot a man in Reno.
~ Johnny Cash
Hell is full of good intentions.
~ Thomas Gray
I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make.
~ Leif Garrett
Liberty is an opportunity for doing good, but this is only so when it is also an opportunity for doing wrong.
~ Friedrich August von Hayek
Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.
~ C. S. Lewis
The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
~ Sophocles, Philoctetes
Hell is full of good wishes or desires.
~ Bernard of Clairvaux
Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
~ Alan Perlis
I've done bad things with relish, and good things with pickles.
~ John S. Hall
He who fills His pockets with the Rocks of Misdeeds shall surely sink in the River of Good Fortune.
~ Jim Davis
I am the result of the good choices I've made and the bad choices.
~ Madonna Ciccone
Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.
~ John Charles Polanyi
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie
~ Pierre Corneille
Good deeds never go unpunished.
~ E. B. White
Just as one can make a lot of garlands from a heap of flowers, so man, subject to birth and death as he is, should make himself a lot of good karma.
~ Gautama Buddha
I will probably go to jail, but do you know what? There's a lot of good people who go to jail.
~ James Traficant
With bad girls, you can't go as many places as you can with a good girl. But, it is fun to play the bad girl because you always get the better wardrobe!
~ Meaghan Martin
There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
~ Samuel Butler
What's good for the United States is good for the New York Stock Exchange. But what's good for the New York Stock Exchange might not be good for the United States.
~ William McChesney Martin
Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful.
~ Benjamin Franklin