Quotes About Consequences

Um dos castigos impostos por uma educação ecológica é viver solitariamente em um mundo ferido. Para um leigo, muitos dos danos causados à Terra são invisíveis. Um ecologista deve se embrutecer e fazer de conta que não tem nada a ver com as consequências da ciência, ou deve ser como um médico que vê marcas da morte em uma comunidade que acredita estar saudável e não quer ser convencida do contrário.

One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise.

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and roofed with them.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.

We are living now, not in the delicious intoxication induced by the early successes of science, but in a rather grisly morning-after, when it has become apparent that what triumphant science has done hitherto is to improve the means for achieving unimproved or actually deteriorated ends.

Si haces aquello, te destruirás; Si te entregas a tal actividad, terminarás como un pordiosero; Si tienes relaciones sexuales antes del matrimonio, te convertirás en una puta». Como el cerebro tiende a cumplir las predicciones, éstas, transformadas por el Inconsciente en órdenes, actúan sobre la vida del individuo como maldiciones que exigen ser realizadas.

As an explanation tool, the concept of class serves, first and foremost, to clarify who gains and who losses from specific economic processes and policies and with what consequences.

Writing is nothing if not carrying the hopeless, backbreaking burden of decisions devoid of consequences.

Escribir no vale de nada si no acarrea la agotadora e irresoluble carga de las decisiones sin consecuencia alguna.

a good time to be thinking about all that, given that we're just about to tear a new hole in the ass of Iraq.

Lascian poi alle volte le cose più imbrogliate di prima. Quelli che fanno il bene, lo fanno all'ingrosso: quand'hanno provata quella soddisfazione, n'hanno abbastanza e non si viglion seccare a star dietro a tutte le conseguenze: ma coloro che hanno quel gusto di fare il male, ci mettono più diligenza, ci stanno dietro fino alla fine, non prendono mai requie, perché hanno qualche canchero che li rode.

The choices we make, for good or ill, will affect the welfare of generations yet unborn. —State of the Union message, January 14, 1963

Lockdowns have failed as badly as the experts warned us they would, for precisely the reasons those experts spent their careers predicting. But the hysterics have learned nothing from the last four months.

Killing, and being prepared to send one's own followers to their deaths is an index of seriousness in bargaining.

Inexperienced, or insecure, leaders are often tempted to make any infraction a capital offence.

Retribution. Poetic justice. Just deserts. Comeuppance.

Is this how you repay my goodness--with badness?" cried the boy. "Of course," said the crocodile out of the corner of his mouth. "That is the way of the world.

The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.

The hope of impunity is a strong incitement to sedition: the dread of punishment, a proportionably strong discouragement to it.

bad cause seldom fails to betray itself.

When men, engaged in unjustifiable pursuits, are aware that obstructions may come from a quarter which they cannot control, they will often be restrained by the bare apprehension of opposition, from doing what they would with eagerness rush into, if no such external impediments were to be feared.

On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.