Quotes About Consequences

Verily I say unto you," Stuart said, looking Cyril straight in the eye and folding his arms, "that if you do not mind your sister Millie, you will be smitten both hip and thigh

the ends never justify the means because IT never ends.

People do not yet realize (because the mind isn't built that way) what war can be. They fear it but surely they fear it the way children fear nightmares, dimly, without definite images in their heads of how it will all work out.

This is why I didn't want to come. I've got four perfectly good humans here and I didn't want them to get killed by whatever took out DeltFall. It's not like I cared about them personally, but it would look bad on my record, and my record was already pretty terrible.

Fucking up a planet, even part of a planet, for no reason was kind of a big deal, and I was surprised they had gotten away with it. Okay, no, I wasn't surprised.

I guess if you were really determined, you could find a way to get yourself killed by exposing the power connectors under the panels and shielding and, I don't know, licking them or something, but this dead human clearly hadn't.

His biggest rule was that you didn't involve anyone who wasn't already playing the game. Or, as he phrased it, if you have to kill innocent bystanders, then your planning is at fault and someone should best eliminate you.

You know, if you don't want to be manually eviscerated with your own energy weapon then maybe you shouldn't go around killing research transports and antagonizing rogue SecUnits.

In the bot-fighting business, small mistakes like that get you torn apart.

Nobody was touching my humans. To make sure of that I had to kill these two rogue Units. I could have pulled out at this point, sabotaged the hoppers, and got my humans out of there, leaving the rogue Units stuck on the other side of an ocean; that would have been the smart thing to do.

We're not murderers, Tremaine. We're killers. There's a difference. A small difference, but a difference nonetheless.

Moon had the feeling Stone was inadvertently teaching the kethel how to be sarcastic. That wasn't going to work out for anybody.

Humans have a bad tendency to use weapons unnecessarily and indiscriminately.

The horrific emotional consequences of the worst mistake of his life aside, Kai had an idea.

If I was wrong, I'd probably be dead, and that was bad enough. Being stupid and dead would just be that much worse.

Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

has been founded on a good beating.

If you can get today's work done today, but you do it in such a way that you can't possibly get tomorrow's work done tomorrow, then you lose.

On J-Day our profession will have a lot to answer for! We might at least have withheld our hands instead of making them work against God.

If someone throws herself off a tall building, it may make sense to employ Newtonian physics in order to explain her immediate prospects. But it is also quite obvious that this explanation fails to address other important questions which we may wish to ask about that person's life and fate.

This is shown by the history of Saul. Although he had sinned against the voice of the Lord, this would have been forgiven him if he had not added a defense of his sin and said (1 Sam. 15:13), "I have performed the commandments of the Lord.

If Münzer and Carlstadt and their comrades had not been allowed to sneak and creep into other men's houses and parishes, whither they had neither call nor command to go, this whole great calamity would not have happened.

That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind.

The wise person is one who can see beyond the immediate and recognize the long-term consequences of their actions.