Quotes About Consequences

The man who invents a new machine invents for humanity a new concatenation of new forms of servitude.

Wird einem Demokraten ein Finger brandig, fällt ihm nur eines ein: Ein Gesetz zu fordern, das das Abschneiden aller Hände anordnet.

The price for absolute freedom is boundless vulgarity.

Democratic thinking tends to deduce the consequences of action with the same straightforward confidence as the implications of a principle. What the reactionary, on the other hand, knows how to see is the paradoxical nature of actions, of people, of the world.

The surest ways of winning are more disastrous than any defeat.

History is indeed the history of freedom—not of an essence "Freedom," but of free human acts and their unforeseeable consequences.

The best way to eliminate all suffering in the world would be to eliminate all sentient life. If there were no living things capable of feeling pain, then there would be no pain.

Rather face the consequences if the truth rather than the reprocussions of a lie

it was the fault of the hands, they and not any other part of the body had done the taking. Be that as it may, the timidity inseparable from him to begin with increased still more. Perhaps this very event was the reason why he never had any wish to enter the civil service, seeing from experience that it was not always possible to keep the lid on things.

You can run away from all life responsibilities but can't hide from mistakes.

Archie had broken rules with passion as his excuse, and she was asked to rationally pick up the pieces.

Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret." —HERCULE POIROT

Perhaps a woman has a different kind of measuring stick. For when it might be acceptable, or even necessary, to commit a murder.

Myths about the dire effects of genetically modified foods on health and the environment abound, but they have not held up to scientific scrutiny. And, although many concerns have been expressed about the potential for unexpected consequences, the unexpected effects that have been observed so far have been benign.

I didn't tell him the rest of what I knew -- that once you gave up even a little of yourself, it wasn't long before you gave up everything. But he'd learn that for himself soon enough.

Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. —Voltaire

This is the lesson we had learned: when you don't want to face the consequences of your actions, you focus on the soap opera of public life, with its heroes and villains, its clear narratives.

But it's about adults. The corruption of adults. This delusion that they can get whatever they want for free. That they can lie needlessly, promise anything, and then cheat the consequences. This is the delusion of power. The belief that power erases the need for honesty. That power in and of itself is a fact that supersedes all other facts. And what is the price they pay, our elders for stiffing the Piper? Their future. Because what is the future, if not children?

They think about that for a moment, how sometimes the only way to learn not to play with fire is to go up in flames.

We will eventually come to realize that acting out our hatred only causes more hatred. Picking up the burning ember of ill will to throw at our enemy burns us before it burns them. Likewise, when we pick up the substance or behavior that allows us to temporarily avoid the pain, we play with fire. It may feel warm and fuzzy at first, but it will inevitably burn us to the core.

Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.

Procrastination is the enemy of time and results in lost opportunity.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.