Quotes About Consequences

How the American right managed to convince itself that the programs to alleviate poverty are responsible for the consequences of poverty will someday be studied as a notorious mass illusion.

All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian.

Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.

For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part.

Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.

If an economy in the doldrums could drift indefinitely, the price of government inaction might be graver by far than the consequences of bold unorthodoxy.

When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.

Every decision in government is so important, especially when it comes to the military where thousands of people can lose their lives.

Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.

The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to prevent their growth in our own.

There is enough oil in the ground to deep-fry the lot of us, and no obvious means to prevail upon governments and industry to leave it in the ground.

If terrorists succeeded in using a weapon of mass destruction against the U.S. or one of our allies, it would likely have catastrophic consequences for our cherished republican form of government.

Hereditary right should be kept sacred, not from any inalienable right in a particular family, but to avoid the consequences that usually attend the ambition of competitors.

I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions, and that the return of this information to the public marks my end.

Whom the gods would destroy, they first subsidize.

We're not going to default. We just won't default. I mean, there are ways of not defaulting even if you don't raise the debt ceiling, and even if you don't fund the government.

Sometimes there are no good choices for government.

As far as bands doing that in a way where they think they're going to fight the government, the only people they're really hurting is the fans.

Governments resort to inflation with popular support because the people apparently are naïve enough to believe that they can have their cake and eat it, too.

Our government is just way too interested in mucking around in Silicon Valley by creating and enforcing rules based on little or no understanding of the consequences.

Everything goes wrong for a government which is going wrong

The road to evil is paved with socialist intentions.

Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.

The great escape of our times is escape from personal responsibility for the consequences of one's own behavior.