Quotes About Consequences

When it comes to social consequences, they've got all different people acting in different ways, very difficult to even have a proper criterion of success. So, it's a difficult task.

Even cynical, selfish people will realize, one way or the other, that it's not in their self-interest to act in self-destructive ways.

Every action we have is going to have repercussions in ways we could not anticipate.

It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.

We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn.

We cannot undo the past in this misguided war in Iraq.

We know no one is perfect, but what we cannot tolerate, what we will never accept, is a person or company that knows dangers exists and says nothing - literally, silence can kill.

By taking the lives of our young, and wounding the wombs and lives of their mothers, we are flying in the face of God. We cannot play God. If we continue down this path of destruction, we will be met at the gates by our own doom.

We cannot afford a dead stop on all of the progress we have made under President Obama in saving our planet from the devastating consequences of climate change.

We cannot live in a country where losing an election functions as de facto immunity deal.

We cannot blindly pursue the goal of machine intelligence without pondering its consequences.

We cannot afford to let Brexit slip away - the political price, the reputational damage to the country is too great.

If you get a call to go to a certain place in the middle of the night to pick up stolen goods, and it turns out the stolen goods don't show up but the cops show up, I think you're going to have a very weak story saying, 'Well, I got swindled here.'

A weak people and its equally debilitated leaders are bludgeoned by history. It maims them into the cripples that they are meant to be.

Actually, I've gotten myself into some difficult places because I thought I could fix somebody.

Using a big word like 'plagiarism'... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting damage, like accusations of racism.

If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

People shouldn't be living in certain places - on earthquake faults or on flood plains. But they do, and there are consequences.

The way I see it, the earth is going to be here after we're dead and gone. Even if it's a polluted planet, and they messed it up. Where do they go from here - to another planet so they can mess that up too?

War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves.

For 'Inhuman,' it's a 'chess game' series. You have a lot of pieces moving different ways at once, and it's about what they do on their own and what happens when they collide into one another. It's about long-range planning, new character creation, and trying to really build things.

We're not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation.

The war is not planned. I don't believe that any responsible person plans it. But it's thought as possible.