Quotes About Consequences

But its consequences for stability are fraught with danger. How can we continue the welcome advances of plural voices and opinions, initiative and innovation, without at the same time driving ourselves into a crippling paralysis that could undo this progress very quickly?

What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.

A shoemaker, in making a pair of shoes, cannot spoil a scrap of leather without having to bear the loss; but in our business we may spoil a man without its costing us a farthing. The blunders are never put down to us, and it is always the fault of the fellow who dies. The best of this profession is, that there is the greatest honesty and discretion among the dead; for you never find them complain of the physician who has killed them.

Il faut qu'il ait tué bien des gens pour s'être fait si riche.

It is not what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.

On n'a plus qu'à commettre tous les crimes imaginables, tromper, voler, assassiner, et dire pour excuse qu'on y a été poussé par la destinée.

It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.

What you do today and tomorow has an effect on the rest of your life

You want to fuck, let's do it. Let's burn down the fucking place. We got that in us…between us. But when it's over…all I'll leave you are bruises. Because that's all I have to give you.

The lovely effects of champagne were quite gone and only the nasty ones were left; the taste in the mouth, the splitting ache in the brow and the impotence of not being able to clarify one's thoughts.

Your sister strikes me as the type of driver who raises the rates for everybody else." "Good one, Ona

Bad things happen when good people ignore them

Of course America is responsible for the total body count. We started it, we own it, we sow, we reap, but we are also disconnected from the responsibility of our won dirty acts of war.

Better my right hand should have been cut off. Go know I was setting in motion events that would lead to the ruin of one of the few truly good men I ever met.

War always brings death and destruction and that can never be a good thing

There was never a greater crime against humanity than the fourth crusade," says Stephen Runciman. It destroyed the treasures of the past and broke down the most advanced culture of Europe. Far from uniting Eastern and Western Christendom, it implanted in the Greeks a hostility toward the West that has never entirely disappeared, and it weakened the Byzantine defenses against the rising power of the Ottoman Turks, to whom they eventually succumbed.

Why do people start wars when they know so many sad things are going to happen?

Each of us can walk only the path he sees at his own feet. Each of us is subject to the consequences of his own belief.

The truth ? the truth my dear Ashely is a luxury available only to those who are not involved in its consequences

If we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people to not kill each other? Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want.

If in this present age we were to go back to the old time of "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth," there would be very few hon. gentlemen in this House who would not, metaphorically speaking, be blind and toothless.

When a human being acts in ways that contradict the natural order of nature, negative qualities of the mind will develop within that person's personality.