Quotes About Consequences

Klebety ?loveka nútia kona? skôr, ako je pripravený, inokedy zni?ia jeho nádej, ešte než dozreje.

El poder está bien, y la estupidez es, por lo general inofensiva. Pero el poder y la estupidez juntos son peligrosos.

I am the king of good ideas gone terribly wrong.

What do they do to students at the University who eavesdrop?" Bast asked curiously. "I haven't the slightest idea. I was never caught.

No se trata de ser o no culpable —razonó Manet—. Un árbol no provoca una tormenta, pero cualquier idiota sabe dónde va a caer el rayo. Wilem asintió con gesto grave. —En mi tierra decimos: el clavo más alto es el que primero recibe el martillazo. —Arrugó el entrecejo—. En siaru suena mejor.

Chronicler looked down, shaking his head. "I don't understand this fear you have of the Cthaeh," he said. "Well," Bast said, "evidence seems to indicate that you're not terribly smart.

Cthulhu takes vow breaking very seriously. If they will break a vow to their spouse, what is to keep them from breaking their vows to Cthulhu? Besides pain and torture followed by a horrible death and an eternity of pain.)

In fact, all the additional knowledge gained by an irrationally constituted society may but enlarge and enhance the powers of death and destruction.

That the means of imperialist policy overshadow almost entirely its original ends has tremendous implications.

guns were a complicated business, and once you pointed a weapon at someone, especially someone with a weapon of his own, the thing you were counting on to protect you was just as likely to turn you into a corpse.

I learned that freedom can be dangerous. If you don't watch out, it can kill you.

There was this certainty inside me, and it destroyed everything else. The moment Ferdinand touched me, I knew that I was going to kill him, and the certainty was so great, so overpowering, that I almost wanted to stop and tell him about it, just so he would be able to understand what I thought of him and why he deserved to be dead.

and cut down many trees. When the Humans

It's illegal to yell 'Fire!' in a crowded theater, right?" "It is." "Well, I've whispered 'Racism' in a post-racial world.

Tu dormis, tu perdis Ã¢â'¬Â¦ You snooze, you lose.

In April of 1945, in the Dachau concentration camp, several men were lined up against the wall, tortured, and shot. Such savagery was typical for Dachau. Tens of thousands of prisoners had been murdered there, through starvation, execution, the gas chamber, and even grotesque medical experiments. But this incident happened after the camp had been liberated. The victims were captured German soldiers, and it was the American liberators who were doing the killing.

Or consider child beggars in the developing world. The sight of an emaciated child is shocking to a well-fed Westerner, and it's hard for a good person to resist helping out. And yet the act of doing so ends up supporting criminal organizations that enslave and often maim tens of thousands of children. By giving, you make the world worse. Actions that appear to help individuals in the short term can have terrible consequences for many more.

This perverse moral mathematics is part of the reason why governments and individuals care more about a little girl stuck in a well than about events that will affect millions or billions. It is why outrage at the suffering of a few individuals can lead to actions, such as going to war, that have terrible consequences for many more.

In a similar study, people were asked to write about a past event that made them feel "most guilty," and then were asked to manipulate a shock machine to either increase or decrease a set amount of shock they were receiving. Again the guilty group gave themselves more shock than a control group, and the stronger the shock they gave, the more their guilt went away.

The presence of evil) in his life provokes him into either overcoming it or yielding to it. If the first, it has led him to work for his own improvement; if the second it has led him to acknowledge his own weakness. Sooner or later, the unpleasant consequences of such weakness will lead him to grapple with it, and develop his power of will...Immediately and directly, it may either strengthen him or weaken him. Ultimately, it can only strengthen him.

The trouble you don't get into, you don't have to get out of!

He who forgets the past is doomed to repeat it.

Though a "gentle word turns away wrath,"5 it's not fool-proof either, nor does it claim to be. They listen to power and consequences:

Sin makes us moral quadriplegics.