Quotes About Consequence

The only choice was between falling on rocks or falling on water, and that was a choice that more or less made itself.

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse." —Joseph Brodsky What Freedom Looks Like The point of the shovel bit into the ground with the sharp scrape of metal on earth.

The thing about history is you don't know what the right side is till long afterwards, and by then it hardly matters.

Didn't want to kill him, but in her experience it was far better to hit a man too hard than not hard enough.

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

A sane action is one carried out in a way the wider consequences demand rather than for narrow, selfish reasons or out of habit or approval.

By the time I knew it was a mistake, it was too late to come back. That's usually how it is.

Just think, if you had a gun" he said to her "This story might have a different ending.

I was so scared of doing the wrong thing I hardly ever did the right thing." Vic

But killing a man ought to mean something, even if you have to do it.

The innocent suffered while evil thrived, and to the victors went the spoils.

Evil, unchecked, is the prelude to genocide. - Anonymous

Evil, unchecked, is the prelude to genocide.

and immediately hoped he wouldn't regret it. Mordechai's death

Ezekiel 29:9–10

Looking back on that day, I can't help but wonder: what if I had brought more bread for the ducks? Did I bring this on myself?

When you take a man's life that's between you, God and that man's soul. It's a personal conversation you work out your entire life. I can't talk about it because there are no words for it.

Nije li u me?uvremenu krš?anstvo što dalje to više gubilo tu osjetljivost za situaciju? Ono više ne najavljuje, ne naviješta, ono još samo ponavlja ono što jest pa ga onda iritira vlastita mjerodavnost koja nema nikakvih posljedica.

What one refuses in a minuteNo eternity will return.

You saw his weakness, and he will never forgive you.

Ehre verloren, alles verloren." ("Honor lost, all lost.")

We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.

It has ever been my fate to give pain to those whose happiness I should have promoted.

We should pledge ourselves to the proposition that the irresponsible life is not worth living.