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Quotes About Consequence

No man will revel long in the indulgence of crime.
~ Decimius Magnus Ausonius
Which would be worse - to live as a monster, or to die as a good man?
~ Dennis Lehane
There is no inevitability in history except as men make it.
~ Felix Frankfurter
You are grown so very great now, yet the higher a man climbs the farther he has to fall.
~ George R. R. Martin
The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. Look her in the eyes before you kill her. See her tears, hear her last words. You owe her that much at least." - Eddard Stark
~ George R. R. Martin
If a man paints a target on his chest, he should expect that sooner or later someone will loose an arrow on him.
~ George R. R. Martin
The ruin of most men dates from some idle moment.
~ George Stillman Hillard
This much have I learned: A man's life weighs more than glory, and a price paid in blood is a heavy reckoning.
~ Lloyd Alexander
Why kill good people just to get a bad man?
~ Loudon Wainwright III
Hitler is a scourge sent by God to punish men for their iniquities.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I will adhere to the counsels of good men, although misfortune and death should be the consequence.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Don't you know that the very thing a man dreads is the thing that always happens?
~ Mark Twain
We do not correct the man we hang; we correct others by him.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Actually I didn't shoot a man in Reno just to watch him die, but he could tell I was extremely cross.
~ Neil Gaiman
Pollution is a necessary result of the inability of man to reform and transform waste.
~ Patti Smith
Men must reap the things they sow, Force from force must ever flow.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Fine thoughts are wealth, for the right use of which Men are and ought to be accountable,-- If not to Thee, to those they influence.
~ Philip James Bailey
No man provokes me with impunity.
~ Ovid
Stopping a man from what he wants to do is like taking a sweet from a child. Sometimes you have to do it, but sometimes it just isn't worth the trouble.
~ Robert Jordan
If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am constantly doing by being what I am.
~ Henry David Thoreau
He who preserves a man's life against his will does the same thing as if he slew him.
~ Horace
When a man speaks of the need for realism one may be sure that this is always the prelude to some bloody deed.
~ Isaiah Berlin
A tiny little wooden man [was] slowly ascending the steps to a real set of gallows, both perched on a box that read: Reusable Hangman — Spell It Or He'll Swing!
~ J. K. Rowling
When a man forgets himself, he usually does something everybody else remembers.
~ James Coco