Quotes About Consequence

In seeking to uncover the causes of an event, ask yourself: who stands to benefit from it?

The vermin explain their sin with sanctimonious language like, "We've prayed about it and sought counsel, and we feel it's the right thing to do." Don't let it down on them that to the Enemy what they feel is inconsequential. His moral laws don't give a rip about how any of them feel. The sludgebags have no more power to vote them in and out of existence than they have power to revoke the law of gravity.

when trying to make a decision, I often think of the worst-case scenario. I call it "The Eaten By Wolves Factor." If I do something, what's the most terrible thing that could happen? Would I be eaten by wolves?

Insanity triumphed because sane people were silent.

Ten cuidado con lo que deseas. Podrías conseguirlo.

Games aren't stories. Games aren't about beauty or delight. Games aren't about jockeying for social status. They stand, in their own right, as something incredibly valuable. Fun is about learning in a context where there is no pressure from consequence, and that is why games matter.

Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquence.

When men don't fear God, they give themselves to evil.

The pan-Indian confederation in the South during the 1780s and 1790s was a direct consequence of the Revolutionary War. With Great Britain defeated, American settlers swarmed from Georgia, Virginia, and the Carolinas into the region between the southern Appalachias and the Mississippi.

Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?

I always used to say to myself, I'm going to die of lung cancer. That's the choice I'm making.

We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.

I suppose you have to be careful what you sing, because you might have to do it.

There's a domino effect with certain things you say.

You don't get any second chances.

I'm obviously going to own up that I cheated and I got caught.

If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.

No one is born evil; it's just the choices that they make.

Sometimes you get to a place in life where you feel you've made some choices, and maybe they weren't the right choices, and that it's all coming to an end.

Doubt yourself all you want, but you have to make choices in life and live with them.

Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher.

Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.

Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.

There's no question that Stalin broke the agreements made at Yalta completely about elections that were supposed to be held immediately in Poland, and Eastern Europe was plunged into slavery as a consequence.