Quotes About Ramification

Consequences must outweigh probabilities

Sometimes the choices you are given are bad ones, no matter which way you go. And therefore the consequences are bad ones, as well.

Friedrich Nietzsche famously said that "a 'thing' is the sum of its effects.

the result is what people live with, not the cause.

Odd how a single, impulsive action could lead to a string of consequences.

I started to see the consequences of the idea.

you would realize that almost all of them have had asymmetric payoff, with one side carrying a larger consequence than the other.

Results are what you expect; consequences are what you get.

This is what it leads to! This is what it leads to if you let your attention wander for a moment!

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

it's not unusual in history for the solution to one problem to become the root of the next one.

Like a stone dropped into a pond, an article of that sort may spread out its concentric circles of consequences.

The problem with unintended consequences isn't with the consequences, it's with the unintended. Just because you didn't' intend for something to happen doesn't mean you didn't want it to.

consequence has its tax;...

Actions always have consequences!

The proof of how poorly grounded freedom is is that depriving someone of their freedom itself no longer means anything. Impossible to find an equivalence between the crime and the punishment or, therefore, any possible 'justice'. Given the extension of responsibility and its ramification into all networks, the irresponsibility is the same everywhere.

Every cause produces more than one effect.

I think Dr. Willis McNelly at the California State University at Fullerton put it best when he said that the true protagonist of an sf story or novel is an idea and not a person. If it is good sf the idea is new, it is stimulating, and, probably most important of all, it sets off a chain-reaction of ramification-ideas in the mind of the reader; it so-to-speak unlocks the reader's mind so that that mind, like the author's, begins to create.

Consequence of

Every person's every action has an effect.

No action is without its side effects.

Choices and consequences come in package deals. When we make a choice, we ignite the consequences that can come along with it.

Men of conservative temperament have long suspected that one thing leads to another.

Every easy choice will have its consequence tomorrow.