Quotes About Consequences

Doctors also think that many patients may have long-term consequences of infection with SARS-2 in many organ systems, in what is called "post-COVID syndrome." Such patients may have permanently scarred or injured lungs or kidneys or hearts, for example, or even, in rare cases, neurological deficits.

Lord Melville was an efficient First Lord of the Admiralty, but his past was catching up with him.

Once the British were defeated, there would be peace again – on Napoleon's terms.

Technology is amoral, and inventions are routinely deployed in ways their creators neither intend nor sanction.

the path of technological progress and its human consequences are determined not simply by advances in science and engineering but also, and more decisively, by the influence of technology on the costs of producing and consuming goods and services. A competitive marketplace guarantees that more efficient modes of production and consumption will win out over less efficient ones.

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

I guess you always regret the choices you didn't make, because you imagine that they would have been better choices, that's the thing. But in the end, you just have to choose something and get on with it. Because if you hedge your bets forever, well, you end up with nothing, don't you?

But if you're gonna dine with them cannibals Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . .

Radicals either dismiss crimes committed by anti-Western forces as the inventions of Western propagandists or excuse them as the inevitable, if regrettably blood-spattered, consequences of Western provocation. The narcissism behind their reasoning is too glaring to waste time on.

He heard of the generals Saddam had shot for lowering his prestige by losing battles and the generals Saddam had shot for rivalling his prestige by winning battles.

If managers looked to the inspiration for the technologies they deploy, they would find it comes from a scientific method that has no connection to the cramped, fearful ideologies of the managerial economy. The scientific method insists that researchers must go where the evidence leads, whatever the consequences. Status, salary and position should offer no protection from criticism, because no idea or person is sacred.

After Rushdie, the fear of a knife in the ribs or a bomb at the office meant that liberals who stuck by liberalism were in the wrong. They knew the consequences now. If someone killed them, they were guilty of provoking their own murder. In the eyes of most politicians and most of the journalists, broadcasters, academics and intellectuals whose livelihoods depended on the freedom to debate and criticise, the targets of religious violence had no one to blame but themselves.

I've committed to nothing...and that's just suicide...by tiny, tiny increments.

It's brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like.

If I've learned anything this trip, it's that you have to take responsibility for what you don't do, as well as what you do.

The only dangerous thing about ignoramuses is when they vote for ignoramuses.

Any story about revenge is ultimately a story about forgiveness, redemption, or the futility of revenge.

Procrastination is self-induced torture, often void of physical agony. It still hurts.

Cameron Slater: he is a very silly man, because I could stop the people who are going against him. But now, he is just going to get double. Judith Collins: you know the rule. always reward with Double. Cameron Slater: i learned the rule from you! Double it is. Judith Collins: If you can't be loved, then best to be feared.15

I think she knows she's made a terrible, irreversible mistake, but she can't stop because if she did, she'd have to acknowledge the mistake and the fact that people really don't care. They just think she's a freak.

Man's freedom does not free him from necessity. But twists it into unforeseeable consequences.

The liberal is always mistaken because he does not distinguish between the consequences he attributes to his intentions and the consequences his intentions effectively include.

Liberty is, in fact, alienated from itself in the same gesture in which it is assumed, because free action possesses a coherent structure, an internal organization, a regular proliferation of sequelae. The act unfolds, opens up, and expands into necessary consequences, in a manner compatible with its intimate character and with its intelligible nature. Every act submits a piece of the world to a specific configuration.