Quotes About Consequences

To abstain from violence toward the violent is to become their accomplice.

All empires fall, eventually." "But why? It's not for lack of power. In fact, it seems to be the opposite. Their power lulls them into comfort. They become undisciplined. Those who had to earn power are replaced by those who have known nothing else. Who have no comprehension of the need to rise above base desires.["]

Words," said the host, at length, "is worse'n bullets. You never know what they'll hit.

Word's is worse'n bullets. You never know what they'll hit.

You can't blame anyone else, ... , no one but yourself. You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices.

Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others.

In Japan, no one could dictate effectively to either army or navy. To an extraordinary degree, the two services—each with its own air force—pursued independent war policies, though the soldiers wielded much greater clout. The foremost characteristic of the army general staff, and especially of its dominant operations department, the First Bureau, was absolute indifference to the diplomatic or economic consequences of any military action. Mamoru

All men who participate in wars find themselves obliged to do things which, if they are decent people, they afterwards regret.

If Franco had joined the war, the inevitable fall of Gibraltar would have doomed Malta. It would have been much harder—perhaps impossible—for the British to hold the Middle East.

Contrary to widely accepted myth, the German war economy was a shambles. It is frightening to contemplate the consequences had it been otherwise.

The immediate moment is all that exists for them; everything must serve it, no matter whether what they ruin in the process is something they will be in dire need of the next minute.

It seems flippant to suggest that Hitler determined to invade Russia because he could not think what else to do, but there is something in this

Shikata ga nai: it could not be helped. If this was a monumentally inadequate excuse for condemning millions to death without hope of securing any redemptive compensation, it is a constant of history that nations which start wars find it very hard to stop them.

I still cannot take those words to them, my lady. It would mean my life.

Aus fixen Ideen entstehen die Verbrechen.

it is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true. Anyone who fails to see this is, indeed, a political infant.

You mean the War of Colonial Aggression?

Život je širi od svakog propisa. Moral je zamisao, a život je ono što biva. Kako da ga uklopimo u zamisao, a da ga ne oštetimo? Više je štete naneseno životu zbog sprje?avanja grijeha, nego zbog grijeha.

noc donosi ono sto hoce, i covjek ne moze nista da izmjeni. Moze samo da se osveti, i to je ljudsko, ako moze. Nije uvijek pametno, nije nikad pametno, ali i to biva.

Kad bi Bog kažnjavao za svako u?injeno zlo, ne bi na zemlji ostalo nijedno živo bi?e

Uvijek ?ovjek ima malo mogu?nosti za izbor. Uglavnom dvije, da strada ?asno ili ne?asno. Ja sam ?astan ?ovjek i izabrao sam ovu drugu. Najgore što smo slobodni da biramo, a mislimo da nismo. Bolje bi bilo da nismo.

Vise je stete naneseno zivotu zbog sprecavanja grijeha, nego zbog grijeha.

Hiljadu puta se pokaješ za ono što kažeš, rijetko za ono što pre?utiš, znao sam za tu mudrost kad mi nije bila potrebna.

I know I still cause harm, probably a ton of it no matter what I do. And it kills me, it just kills me, that maybe the best you can ever do is cause less harm. But there you have it.