Quotes About Consequence

Violence is a choice a man makes and he alone is responsible for it.

No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.

When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it.

It's very easy for some men and in some cases women to sit back and say with 20-20 hindsight, "Tsk-tsk, should have done more." But it doesn't account for the reality.

No man has ever had a point of pride that was not injurious to him.

I've never hanged a man. It is the law that has done it.

Man indeed is the most noble, by creation, of all the creatures in the visible World; but by sin he has made himself the most ignoble.

One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter, "Beware. You will never get out of this world alive."

You know that murder is wicked. If you saw your master kill a man, do you suppose this would be any excuse for you, if you should commit the same crime?

There's an argument for saying that brave men deserve what they get, but it's a serious business forcing cowards to stand in harm's way.

War is like a fire. One man may start it, but it will spread all over. It is not about any one thing in particular.

If a man should wanton walk with crime ... he shall find in death no great deliverance.

The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.

You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit.

Young man, if that bat comes down, you're out of the game

When you hang a man, you better look at him.

There is nothing that gives a man consequence, and renders him fit for command, like a support that renders him independent of everybody but the State he serves.

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

If', it's a little word, but casts an awfully big shadow.

When will pleasure crash with regret?

Might have, could have, may have, should have—the haves and have nots reduced to pointless possibilities.

Woe unto them who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!… Therefore, as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust, because they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

One needn't understand the workings of a pistol to pull its trigger.

If you jump to conclusions, you make terrible landings.