Quotes About Consequence

In short, the things he did were done because it was easier to do them than not to do them.

It was idle, he knew, to get between a fool and his folly;

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.

When you have a big, ugly problem, there's never going to be a neat, elegant solution that is totally painless or without a cost.

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

The Internet has provided small communities for racism online, and people feel free to do it. Ultimately, there should be some consequence - if you promote your racism online then there should be a consequence.

That's the thing about the script, is that how these people were affected by their decision, and how it could ultimately kill them, and I mean literally.

I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

You take unacceptable risk, you have to be prepared to face the consequence.

Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.

War is not the continuation of policy. It is the breakdown of policy.

War is a bankruptcy of policy

A war put off is not a war avoided.

Between 1861 and 1865, Americans made war on each other and killed each other in great numbers - if only to become the kind of country that could no longer conceive of how that was possible.

Imagine how different a world might be if more leaders took time to ponder the finality of death before racing off to war.

In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.

I saw that the war could not be prevented. The time had passed.

War is an admission of failure

The thing about war is that once it's triggered, it is unyielding in its appetite. And the more it consumes and gorges, the more it wants.

This is our fault. My fault as much as the next man's, because even if I was against the war, I didn't do enough to stop it.

What does it matter if, by chance, a little vile blood be spilled?

War is just what we do. Yet, of course, the effects of it are repeatedly deeper, then deeper, then deeper.

Lives should never be down to mere words, but I suppose they always are. Whether declarations of war, law, or treaty... words ever determine lives.