Quotes About Consequences

Beer. It always seems like such a good idea at the time, doesn't it? What's worse is beer seems like an even better idea after you've had some beer.

There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

Responding to the question "If Mr. Stalin dies, what will be the effect on international affairs?" That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer.

Selfless giving has a lot to do with what happens to you in the future. There is karma, both good and bad.

I have no idea how long Putin will last. The good news is, Putin doesn't know either. It will be sudden and it won't be peaceful. He has burned his bridges.

Instead, it just reminded her that sometimes there were no good choices.

There's nothing more dangerous than than someone trying to act for the greater good.

the excess of all good things is mischievous.

Good fortune has side effects.

I eventually realized that good things wouldnt happen to me if I didnt make the right choices.

Running around in the grass near an unsecured structure and a bunch of trees is a good way of taking yourself out of the gene pool.

All that you do will come back to you. Good and bad.

It's hard to hear that your good intentions are making things worse and tragic.

The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia - that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.

Not all design is for the general good.

We do good by ourselves, but we seldom do wrong alone.

Do you know that I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world? Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance.

Everyone is caught in the web of his or her own actions and is bound by past karmas (actions). Good and bad are relative terms. Every action takes one to the next place.

Greater good is just halfway back to Bad.

No good deed goes unpunished- Syn

When government takes away options, it is bound to make some people worse off, even with intrinsicallly good intentions behind that government intervention.

Be good or don't get caught.

Of course killing people is 'wrong', but I think history shows that sometimes it serves the greater good.

Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences.