Quotes About Consequence

When we call something a necessary evil, something requiring the suffering or death of a fellow creature, the evil is real and it had better be necessary.

To know and not act is to not know.

It could have been like a fairy tale. But fairy tales aren't real. Things don't work like that. There's a price for everything.

What do you do when the devil turns up in your living room and offers you everything you want?

Running away is pretty pathetic, but it's even worse getting caught.

if I ever want to punish myself for something terrible, if I ever want to punish myself disgustingly—I'll marry you." She added: "Consider it a promise.

I threw it down the air shaft. There's a concrete floor below.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer--and that is the way he has acted through most of history." --Atlas Shrugged

Now I'll give you a choice. That train is going to be run. You have no choice about that. But you can choose whether it's going to be run by one of your men or not. If you choose not to let them, the train will still run, if I have to drive the engine myself.

But, after all, I did break one of your laws." "Well, what do you think they're for?

It's too late, Peter.

Evil requires the sanction of the victim

There is no such thing as a temporary suicide.

The men who now sat in front of his desk had been taught that the law of causality was a superstition and that one had to deal with the situation of the moment without considering its cause.

If this is what has beaten us, he thought, the guilt is ours.

quoting Cary Grant) A word, like a lost opportunity, cannot be taken back once it hass been uttered.

Something leads to something else

But by the end of two years, most have either changed careers or moved to suburban schools - a consequence of low pay, a lack of support from the educational bureaucracy, and a pervasive feeling of isolation.

we better win this thing or the country is screwed.

It wasn't that people didn't know the difference between good and bad policy. It just didn't matter.

Every human interaction offers you the chance to make things better or to make things worse.

Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.

How is it right to slip free of an old skin and walk away from the scene of the crime? We came, we saw, we took away and we left behind, we must be allowed our anguish and our regrets.

What a knot of history one mistake can become.