Quotes About Consequences

Quem na lama quer remexer, que lama seja.

War, waged from whatever motive, extinguishes the sentiment of reason and justice in the mind.

Oscar Wilde said that the gods punish us in two ways: first, they don't give us what we want, then, they do. He forgot the third way: we finally see the cost of getting it.

War was invented was to allow men who never grew up to do the things they always wanted to do as kids: mess up their rooms, wear funny clothes, sleep in a room with a lot of strangers, dirty up other people's houses and then take their toys away.

Blowing up a few buildings is a lot better than an exploding planet, but people aren't very interested in simple arithmetic when there's blame to assign.

I didn't have anything against them and they never did anything wrong to me, the way other people have all my life. Maybe they're just the ones who have to pay for it.

Noah got drunk, which led to his grandson Canaan being cursed (Gen. 9:25).

In short, a nation in covenant with God is assured peace, prosperity and power. In sharp contrast, look at what befalls the nation that abandons the covenant.

Just as leaven in bread will cause it to rise, the words and actions of others will cause their bad seed to produce weeds instead of fruit.

As I learn about pest control, it reminds me of international relations - fraught with unintended consequences and shifting alliances and deals, a place where the enemy of my enemy is my friend and has always been my friend and will always be my friend, until the next shift in the balance of power when it's suddenly the other way around. The whole thing is a delicate dance (...)

He looked at a story about a new gun they had out in California that spit seventy rounds in four seconds. They called it the "Peace Conservator." They were always doing some damn thing in California that nobody had thought out the consequences.

The Tao of Fully Feeling, and it was written as an appeal to the general public to understand the consequences of trying to sanitize one's emotions.

He did not, however, because he had long since learned that getting angry back was a capital crime that would elicit the most savage retaliation.

In order to stay healthy, our nervous systems and psyches need to face challenges and to succeed in meeting those challenges. When this need is not met, or when we are challenged and cannot triumph, we end up lacking vitality and are unable to fully engage in life. Those of us who have been defeated by war, abuse, accidents, and other traumatic events suffer far more severe consequences.

a lie, once uttered, changes reality just as surely as if it were a great truth.

Hunting, works for conservation like slavery works for economic growth. A guaranteed but morally awful way to achieve a goal.

Parents today are afraid to discipline their kids. Why, I once smeared Brian with steak sauce and threatened to feed him to a wolverine because he forgot to say please. That's why he's the man that he is today!

The world of the sorcerer's apprentice – a world without an 'off' switch? Is that the world we inhabit?

El día que asestes un arma en dirección a otro hombre será como si ya le hubieras matado.

Eat, drink, and couple like minks, for tomorrow you could come down with one hell of a pony drip, and Mrs. Lee will ban you from the premises.

Blindness and madness punish the hubris of the man who possesses and employs a faculty for knowledge not given to other men.

If you entrust a nation's economy to an impulsive leader with no care for facts, disaster will follow.

I resisted the temptation to turn around and stick out my tongue in derision at Beliquose. After all, there was no telling when or if we should meet again, and I certainly did not need him saying, 'Ah yes, Poe, the fellow whose trespasses i could have forgiven in their entirety... except for the tongue thing. Yes, for that, you must surely die.

When your heart's been cut out, how's it going to feel knowing that you're the one who wielded the knife ?