Quotes About Consequence

Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment.

I've created such a monster.

We create monsters and then we can't control them.

It saddens me that in the 21st century, with all our knowledge and power, we are hearing more and more stories of possible extinctions due to people's choice. We are responsible for our choices and the only ones capable of changing our future.

If you donate to a charity and save a few kids, 20 years down the line, there will be more people who exist because of you. In other words, you should consider your actions fully.

If you've got a mortgage, and you've got bills to pay, you might tend to do some stupid things.

What motivates me is the conviction that our problems are mainly a consequence of a lack of holistic understanding of the man-made system in which we are entwined.

Every action that we take has some motivation of either being selfish or altruistic. All that adds up.

Nothing in life is without cause and effect. Nothing is merely a shell. Everything has some motive.

Have we reached the ultimate state of absurdity where some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born, while other people are not held responsible for what they themselves are doing today?

If you have the power to put a stop to subjugation, yet look the other way while it happens, then you have done it yourselves

when people are entering upon a war they do things the wrong way round. Action comes first, and it is only when they have already suffered that they begin to think.

the question is not so much whether they are guilty as whether we are making the right decision for ourselves.

hope is by nature an expensive commodity, and those who are risking their all on one cast find out what it means only when they are already ruined;

To be hated and to cause pain is, at present, the reality for anyone who takes on the rule of others, and anyone who makes himself hated for matters of great consequence has made the right decision; for hatred does not last long, but the momentary brilliance of great actions lives on as a glory that will be remembered forever after. - Pericles

Fate is just another word for people's choices coming to a head. Destiny, coincidence, whatever you name it. It inevitably lies in our hands.

What happened, and what might have happened?

Large effects might come from small causes.

It's having the choices that kills a man. It's the best and the worst. You get to choose and you get to regret. Almost guaranteed to bugger it up. And sometimes not.

Creo que nadie se mete en una guerra sin tener la incómoda sensación de que las cosas habrían podido solucionarse de otra manera, a pesar de que esa otra manera se haya probado y fallado.

I don't think anyone ever goes into a war without the nagging feeling that there might have been some other way.

Once you make a decision, you can never go back and change it. Sometimes, farther down the line, you have a chance to alter its effects. But the original decision is there forever.

On the contrary," Thrawn corrected coolly. "Not only will they fall for it, they'll be utterly destroyed by it. Watch, Captain. And learn.

The choices of one shape the futures of all'?