Quotes About Consequences

You know you're in trouble when your own imagination starts punishing you.

The imagination is a wonderful thing; it allows for all manner of undiscoverable sins.

When the imagination is continually led to the brink of vice by a system of terror and denunciations, people fling themselves over the precipice from the mere dread of falling.

Sometimes I feel like God…when I order someone killed – they die the same day.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Thinking about design is hard, but not thinking about it can be disastrous.

Remember, what you say comes back to you.

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become, and they pay for it, very simply, by the lives they lead.

When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.

Even a correct decision is wrong when it was taken too late.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.

But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.

Through violence, you may 'solve' one problem, but you sow the seeds for another.

When you have a problem, if you tell the truth, the problem becomes part of your past. If you lie, it becomes part of your future.

Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up.

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.

...Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.

Remember, people who peek through keyholes have to expect an occasional poke in the eye.

Smoking means always having to say you're sorry.

There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.

We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.