Quotes About Consequence

The important thing is not who fired the shot but who paid for the bullet.

In the old days, would-be conquerors often executed messengers who brought them bad news. It was not the messengers' fault that they had to disturb the emperor's image of himself as a world conqueror, but unfortunately they did, and they suffered the consequence of the anxiety they aroused. It is still worth a man's neck to disturb an emperor's image. Nowadays the ax falls more subtly and the execution may be postponed, but sooner or later it comes.

He who kills even one unbeliever of those who rule over us, whether he does it secretly or openly, shall be rewarded by God.

Dos caminos se dividían en un bosque y yo tomé el menos transitado, y eso estableció una gran diferencia.

People who think they have the full support of God, any god, think they're invincible. They will do anything and not even think twice about it.

If you board the wrong train it is no use running along the corridor in the opposite direction. —DIETRICH BONHOEFFER

If you board the wrong train it is no use running along the corridor in the opposite direction.

when someone asked Bonhoeffer whether he shouldn't join the German Christians in order to work against them from within, he answered that he couldn't. 'If you board the wrong train,' he said, 'it is no use running along the corridor in the opposite direction.

Startup success is not a consequence of good genes or being in the right place at the right time. Startup success can be engineered by following the right process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught.

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Chapter Twenty-Five

Some people should never have children.

The pain of not knowing what to do was exceeded only by that of knowing what I had done.

Respect Whats Mine. Know Not To Cross That Line. I Won't Have To Get Out Of Line and Clap You With My Nine ....

Now he understood clearly that roads do divide, at the crossroad there is a choice, and blinding oneself to it is a form of choosing, too; it is the fool's way, the coward's way.

No man can claim that he is absolutely in the right or that a particular thing is wrong because he thinks so, but it is wrong for him so long as that is his deliberate judgment. It is therefore meet that he should not do that which he knows to be wrong, and suffer the consequence whatever it may be.

There is no such thing as a historical fatality; there is only a historical nemesis which punishes those who have hesitated to act when action was still possible.

We let it happen, we occasioned this horror. And we continue to occasion, it happens, we are still men.

Did I really want to stay on this road longer, knowing it was only going to end in devastation?

Wickedness goes to great lengths and depths where it is not checked and restrained by the free and continuous expression of the indignation of good men.

he already knew that a few more days with her would be too dangerous, too potent...and he didn't want to break her heart. Not when he knew just how sweet she was, how innocent.

Like young men from the dawn of time, I decided to choose the risk of death over certain humiliation.

Can you sacrifice people?' I asked. 'Take their magic that way?' 'Yes,' he said. 'But there's a catch.' 'What's the catch?' 'You get hunted down even unto the ends of the Earth and summarily executed.

You know there's always things in life that you have to do despite the fact that you know for certain the outcome is going to be messy, painful, humiliating, or all three.