Quotes About Consequences

in New York State coughing or sneezing without covering the face was now punishable by a year in jail and a $500 fine

Although driverless cars will displace millions of jobs, they will also save many lives. Today, decisions about implementing technologies are made largely on the basis of profitability and efficiency, but there is an obvious need for a new moral calculus. The devil, however, is in more than the details. As with nuclear weapons and nuclear power, artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, and robotics will have society-wide consequences, both intended and unintended, in the next decade.

Believe it or not, philosophy has consequences.

If you think education is expensive - try ignorance.

It's really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having an emotional outburst, that you don't get in trouble.

We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

There is no doubt that we live in an age of unprecedented, and sometimes terrifying, technological advance where the speed of advance so often outstrips the necessary ethical considerations.

What changed in the United States with Hurricane Katrina was a feeling that we have entered a period of consequences.

We have been too kind to those who are killing the planet. We have been inexcusably, unforgivably, insanely kind.

You have to hold yourself accountable for your actions, and that's how we're going to protect the Earth.

Fast food may appear to be cheap food and, in the literal sense it often is, but that is because huge social and environmental costs are being excluded from the calculations.

COâ'' emissions anywhere threaten civilisation everywhere.

Every thought has a consequence. And every experience has a causative thought behind it.

Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.

How could you tell children they were playing with fire if they´d never had the experience of being burned?

Really don't choose every day from the harvest you experience but from the seeds you plant

The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from an investigation of the governing physics.

I'm sure most people have this experience: when you're young you drink, you do drugs, you stay up late, and there are no consequences.

An action comitted in anger is an action doomed to failure.

The secret of all failure is disobedience.

Haste in every business brings failures.

To fail to do good is as bad as doing harm.

Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails.