Quotes About Consequence

And his father was right: trying for some ultimate control of the universe, you only built weapons with which the universe eventually defeated you.

Governments always commit their entire populations when the demands grow heavy enough. By their passive acceptance, these populations become accessories to whatever is done in their name.

Uno no debe arriesgarlo todo por liquidar prematuramente una cuenta

la predicción es una consecuencia natural del oleaje del presente

A finger's touch had been known to topple civilizations.

Bir insan? yaÅŸam?n?n bir saatinden mahrum etmekle, onu yaÅŸam?ndan mahrum etmek aras?nda yaln?zca bir ölçek fark? vard?r. Sonuçta ona kar?? ÅŸiddet uygulam??, onun enerjisini tüketmiÅŸ olursunuz.

The eye that looks ahead to the safe course is closed forever

Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred.

History holds its own court and delivers its own judgements,' he said. 'I doubt that I'll be concerned when my judgement's handed down.

It is the river, Leto thought. If I turn, I will see the thing that I have done.

I know the trap of prescience. My father's life tells me what I need to know about it. No, grandmother: to know the future absolutely is to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future.

I know the trap of prescience. My father's life tells me what I need to know about it. No, grandmother: to know the future absolutely is to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future. I require more freedom than that.

Power tends to isolate those who hold too much of it. Eventually, they lose touch with reality . . . and fall.

The gom jabbar, the high-handed enemy.

The Guild navigators, gifted with limited prescience, had made the fatal decision: they'd chosen always the clear, safe course that leads ever downward into stagnation.

The young generally are incapable of making hard decisions unless those decisions are associated with immediate violence and the consequent sharp flow of adrenalin

There's nothing sillier in the world than a teacher telling you don't do it after you already did it.

Just one violation may cost you not only money but a lot of time to rebuild what you had in the past.

Correct thoughts will generate correct courses of action, which leads to favorable results. Wrong thoughts will lead to wrong courses of action, which brings about bad results.

This perversion of the truth, familiar to the artist though it was, always unnerved him afresh and proved too much for him. What was a consequence of the premature ending of his fast was here presented as the cause of it! To fight against this lack of understanding, against a whole world of nonunderstanding, was impossible.

Most men are not wicked. Men become bad and guilty because they speak and act without foreseeing the results of their words and their deeds. They are sleepwalkers, not evildoers.

In a way, I was already punished before I knew I had done anything wrong.

A minha própria loucura refugiada dentro dela mesma, como num ataúde, a loucura dos outros que julgam ver aqui um autêntico ataúde, por consequência um ataúde que se pode transportar, abrir, destruir, trocar por qualquer outro.

Meidän on aina kärsittävä itse kaikki aiheuttamamme kärsimys.