Quotes About Consequences

It's easy to win forgiveness for being wrong; being right is what gets you into real trouble.

An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.

All religions remind us that actions have consequences for which guilt can and must be acknowledged, forgiveness humbly begged, reconciliation sought.

True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.

Turn the other cheek too often and you get a razor through it.

To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.

If little faults proceeding on distemper Shall not be winked at, how shall we stretch our eye When capital crimes, chewed, swallowed, and digested, Appear before us?

We can choose the way of compassion, the way of forgiveness, the way of generosity. Or we can choose other paths and those have very real consequences in the world. This is absolutely crucial.

Forgiveness doesn't mean forget what happened. If something is serious and it is necessary to take counter-measures, you have to take counter-measures.

From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.

Consequences don't just go away. They aren't suddenly dissolved just because forgiveness has been desired or given.

But people didn't forgive you for doing what felt right-that was the last thing they forgave you for.

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers for each rage leaves him less than he had been before-it takes something from him.

Sometimes the best deals are the ones you don't make.

When thee builds a prison, thee had better build with the thought ever in thy mind that thee and thy children may occupy the cells.

I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.

If the people were to ever find out what we have done, we would be chased down the streets and lynched.

Those who are ready to sacrifice freedom for security ultimately will lose both.

The ground for taking ignorance to be restrictive of freedom is that it causes people to make choices which they would not have made if they had seen what the realization of their choices involved.

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

If there was absolute freedom, people would run over babies and charge admission.

For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.

We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts.... Self-government means self-reliance.

We are squandering our wealth. In many respects, to the extent that we persist in our imperial delusions, we're also going to squander our freedom...