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Quotes About Consequence

Were it good To set the exact wealth of all our states All at one cast? to set so rich a main On the nice hazard of one doubtful hour? It were not good.
~ William Shakespeare
The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
The sons of all of us will pay in the future if we of the present do not do justice in the present.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Wars are begun by frightened men. They fear war, but more than that, they fear what will happen if they don't start one or take equivalent action, I suppose.
~ Tom Clancy
An admiral should be put to death now and then to encourage the others.
~ Voltaire
It's one of the most serious things that can possibly happen to one in a battle - to get one's head cut off.
~ Lewis Carroll
In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.
~ Winston Churchill
Take caution when declaring war because you may believe it will be easy, but war will always end in despair.
~ Anonymous
Anything Freed with Guns will Go Back Eventually.
~ Vineet Raj Kapoor
When we declare war for peace, we may win the war and lose the battle.
~ Debasish Mridha
It's a lot cleaner when Command kills you on purpose . . . than when they do it by accident.
~ Henry V. O'Neil, Glory Main
No war has ever won in the history, because people died in every single war! Where there are deaths, there is no victory!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The only difference between a grown-up's mistake and a child's is the size of the consequence.
~ Teresa R. Funke, Doing My Part
Have you ever heard of the theory that it is better for one man to die than an entire nation to suffer? Do you believe that to be true? Is it ever okay to take a life in hopes of saving others?
~ Sara B. Larson, Defy
Victory is always bittersweet.
~ Nadia Scrieva
Hell, any game that gives its players guns is probably not the kind that'll ever really let you go free.
~ Jeanne Ryan, Nerve
The worst stories usually make you think: 'but nobody had to die'.These are called true stories.
~ Moonshine Noire
Give me a book and I may change the world, give me a weapon and there will be no world to change.
~ Raouf Reda Habib
Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone.
~ Pyrrhus
Revenge is not redress. Revenge is a wheel, and it turns backwards.
~ Terry Pratchett
Tattoo on the lower back? Might as well be a bullseye.
~ Vince Vaughn
If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
~ Ayn Rand
When you make a choice, you change the future.
~ Deepak Chopra
What's in store for me in the direction I don't take?
~ Jack Kerouac