Quotes About Consequences

But then there would be no city left to claim. Scorched earth is a policy, it's just not usually the best one.

within every technological advancement lie the seeds of tyranny and slavery.

Malcolm: A karate master does not kill people with his bare hands. He does not lose his temper and kill his wife. The person who kills is the person who has no discipline, no restraint, and who has purchased his power in the form of a Saturday night special. And that is why you think that to build a place like this is simple. Hammond: It was simple. Malcolm: Then why did it go wrong?

If you scald your arse, Sweetland's mother used to say, you got to learn to sit on your blisters. He said, "I got what was coming

If you scald your arse, Sweetland's mother used to say, you got to learn to sit on your blisters. He said, "I got what was coming to me, I expect.

Unfortunately, that's going to be attributable a lot to people who did not heed the advance warnings.

Man could not love if he were unable to choose love, and with this choice came the ability to choose love's opposite.

The foundation of democracy is conscience—personal responsibility. The society that abandons moral absolutes must eventually degenerate into a police state. Well, this nation has abandoned morality. Is it realistic to think we can avoid the consequences?

But I saw a lot as I was growing up. I learned that whenever a person refuses to live according to moral laws, love cannot survive.

Key is not to do things that cause you to be labeled as "dangerous.

It was all very well growing old disgracefully and running your umbrella along life's railings, but when you'd annoyed as many people as possible and told yourself you'd thoroughly enjoyed it, you still had to return home to a cold hearth and deal with it on your own.

There was always plenty of collateral damage; politics left a trail of pain and tortured families in its wake.

What, then, can we do? We must return to the moral and spiritual foundations of our country and grapple with the consequences of our original sin.

We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality." -Ayn Rand

Superpowers," he said to himself, "don't always make you a superhero.

We domesticated pigs and got whooping cough, domesticated chickens and got typhoid fever,894 and domesticated ducks and got influenza.

A study entitled "Death Row Nutrition: Curious Conclusions of Last Meals" analyzed the last meal requests of hundreds of individuals executed in the United States during a five-year period. It turns out that the nutritional content didn't differ much from what Americans normally eat.48 If we continue to eat as though we're having our last meals, eventually they will be.

Who needs terrorists or mother nature when through our own stupidity we do things like this.

Leopold would have mourned mans' brutalization of the wilderness even if he believed it was economically and ecologically sustainable- he believed that man's ability to mourn this brutalization was what set him apart form the beasts-bt he also noticed that the destruction of natural ecosystems often had harmful consequences for people.

There was a famous story, some reporters asked a door gunner, "How can you shoot women and children?" and he'd answered, "It's easy, you just don't lead 'em so much."

You were there in a place where you didn't belong, where things were glimpsed for which you would have to pay and where things went unglimpsed for which you would also have to pay, a place where they didn't play with the mystery but killed you straight off for trespassing.

We make our own rules and lose by them.

Reputation is character minus what you've been caught doing.

When luck plays a part in determining the consequences of your actions, you don't want to study success to learn what strategy was used but rather study strategy to see whether it consistently led to success.