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Quotes About Consequence

In a 1931 speech, Butler recounted a story about Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, how he had run over a child with his car, and said, as he moved on, "It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of the State.
~ Smedley D. Butler
Every action has its pleasures and its price.
~ Socrates
Rather you marry or not, you'll regret.
~ Socrates
Every action has it's pleasure and it's price
~ Socrates
There's a sin, a fearful sin, resting on this nation, that will not go unpunished forever.
~ Solomon Northup
I fought the law, and the law won.
~ Sonny Curtis
There's fire in my fingers. I burn everything I touch.
~ Sonya Hartnett
One cannot do such harm to another and not wound one's own soul in the process.
~ Sophie Hannah
One ought not to use words carelessly, or even spontaneously. Once they are launched, they cannot be called back.
~ Sophie Hannah
I wait for him to announce my presence, holding his gaze, refusing to look away, determined that this beautiful boy see the face he sentences to death with this next words.
~ Sophie Jordan
Quick decisions are unsafe decisions
~ Sophocles
The tyrant is a child of PrideWho drinks from his great sickening cupRecklessness and vanity,Until from his high crest headlongHe plummets to the dust of hope.
~ Sophocles
War never slays a bad man in its course,But the good always!
~ Sophocles
Later, you will regret and repent - you fool! Why are you engrossed in evil-mindedness and skepticism?
~ Sri Guru Granth Sahib
For if the soul, once delivered, as it never was before, is never to return to misery, then there happens in its experience something which never happened before; and this, indeed, something of the greatest consequence, to wit, the secure entrance into eternal felicity.
~ St. Augustine
Choose to love whomsoever thou wilt: all else will follow.
~ St. Augustine
In that moment, she knew she would take the coward's way out,
~ Stacy Hawkins Adams
It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action.
~ Stanley Milgram
The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.
~ Stanley Milgram
The Crone, the Reaper... She is the Dark Moon, what you don't see coming at you, what you don't get away with, the wind that whips the spark across the fire line. Chance, you could say, or, what's scarier still: the intersection of chance with choices and actions made before. The brush that is tinder dry from decades of drought, the warming of the earth's climate that sends the storms away north, the hole in the ozone layer. Not punishment, not even justice, but consequence.
~ Starhawk
The brush that is tinder dry from decades of drought, the warming of the earth's climate that sends the storms away north, the hole in the ozone layer. Not punishment, not even justice, but consequence.
~ Starhawk
Zaman?n çoktan sildiÄŸi bir hata için cezaland?r?labilir miydi insan?
~ Stefan Zweig
Porque el que no actúa también hace algo que lo convierte en culpable en la Tierra...
~ Stefan Zweig
insanl???n en dikkate ÅŸayan baÅŸar?lar?n?n hemen her zaman ak?t?lan kanlarla lekelenmesi ve en büyük iÅŸlerin üstesinden zalimlerin gelmesii nsanl???n ebedi lanetidir!" syf- 146
~ Stefan Zweig