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Quotes About Consequence

Revenge is like a ghost... It takes over every man it touches... Its thirst cannot be quenched... Until the last man standing has fallen.
~ Vladimir Makarov
A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.
~ W. H. Auden
Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
~ Jonathan Edwards
Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one's conscience to get in the way.
~ Hugh Howey
When one man says, "No, I won't," Rome begins to fear.
~ Dalton Trumbo
I killed one man to save 100,000.
~ Charlotte Corday
After about 30 minutes I puked all over my airplane. I said to my self, "Man, you made a big mistake."
~ Chuck Yeager
Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.
~ John Locke
Had you fought like a man, you need not have been hang'd like a dog.
~ Anne Bonny
As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.
~ Bob Marley
Knowledge without repentance will be but a torch to light men to hell.
~ Thomas Watson
If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
~ Confucius
Kill one man, and you are murderer.
~ Jean Rostand
A man's most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions.
~ Thomas Brooks
If there be a man before me who says that the wrath of God is too heavy a punishment for his little sin, I ask him, if the sin be little, why does he not give it up?
~ Charles Spurgeon
Rebellion against a king may be pardoned, or lightly punished, but the man who dares to rebel against the laws of a republic ought to suffer death.
~ Samuel Adams
After all, it's not where a man lands that marks his punishment. Its how far he falls.
~ Tip O'Neill
A man may be outlawed for the sake of a fish net he has never seen.
~ Selma Lagerlöf
No man will say, "There is no God" 'till he is so hardened in sin that it has become his interest that there should be none to call him to account.
~ Matthew Henry
It is ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an insect spray.
~ Rachel Carson
The ball is man's most disastrous invention, not excluding the wheel.
~ Robert Morley
Anytime you go upside a man's head - or a woman - then they have a tendency to blink they eyes. Or close they eyes.
~ Deacon Jones
Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.
~ Edith Hamilton
To be able to think freely, a man must be certain that no consequence will follow whatever he writes.
~ Ernest Renan