Quotes About Consequence

Höss found himself going hot and cold and trembling as he was forced to watch from the front rank; it affected him far more than the first execution he witnessed.

You Can't Do God's Work Your Way without Paying a Steep Price

Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them

I'm insignificant?" Geoff said, standing up from his rock. "I don't matter?" ... You see, because most people have an influence on the course of history, we can't ask them to do this job becasue we'd be interfering with the past. You, however, are so insignificant, that even if I were to kill you on the spot, history would remain completely unchanged.

I have a warrant for your arrest on a matter a few years back

Property damage is so much easier to live with than murder.

Not even Lucifer left Heaven until he was pushed.

Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.

Social movements are understood in relations to the openings they instigate in the political constellation of society as well as the closures that inevitably follow such openings.

Obviously, it was not a good result

Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.

Never burn a bridge unless your foe is on it, captain.

I'm serious. Mess with me and your shoes are mine .

You've one week to solve this, or you're history!

He who hesitates is lost, my friend.

Stupid is as stupid does.

Yesterday was too early. Tomorrow will be too late. Today is the day of reckoning for each of us.

My only choice was between the disastrous and the unpalatable. A very German choice.

What happens," called out Max, "if you win?" "We die anyway, but I become legend" I explained

The path not taken, was not taken. No point wondering.

When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed.

I was already at an age when putting off anything was a bad idea.

Separating the preacher from the practice, the promise from the outcome, the perceived intention from the consequence is at the crux of resistance because it is too easy to mistake the label for the thing labeled, to deal in symbols and concepts instead of people and their behavior.

The present winter is worth an age if rightly employed, but if lost or neglected, the whole continent will partake of the misfortune; and there is no punishment which that man will not deserve, be he who, or what, or where he will, that may be the means of sacrificing a season so precious and useful.