Quotes About Consequence

The only consequence of their (employee) silence is that the blind (employer) lead the blind.

It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.

Yes, I want money more than anything else in the world." "Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you want. It's loneliness.

You're like the thief who isn't the least bit sorry he stole, but is terribly, terribly sorry he's going to jail. - Rhett Butler

Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you want. It's loneliness.

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is

To be a nemesis, you have to actively try to destroy something, don't you? Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.

Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.

I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology.

The issue isn't the accuracy of the bombs you have, it's how you use the bombs you have - and more importantly, whether you ought to use bombs at all.

If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

Every hour of lost time is a chance of future misfortune.

Just because something is good doesn't mean we should pursue it right now. We have to remember that the right thing at the wrong time is the wrong thing.

The right thing at the wrong time will lead to failure.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Wait until next time," he warned. "I'll do things that'll make you lose control within seconds.

By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

There is a time when we must firmly choose the course we will follow, or the relentless drift of events will make the decision for us.

It is high time for society to stop worrying about the criminal, and to let the criminal start worrying about society. And by "society" I mean you.

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.

When the time for decision arrives, the time for preparation is past.

I was mad at the time, or I would never have done the thing.