Quotes About Consequence

The more unharmonious and inconsistent your objects of desire, the more inconsequent, inconstant, unquiet, the more ignoble, idiotical, and criminal yourself.

Where consequence ceases, there folly, restlessness and misery begin.

Who is fatal to others is so to himself.

en la naturaleza de las cosas uno nunca puede intentar escapar a un peligro sin toparse con otro; pero la prudencia consiste en saber cómo reconocer la naturaleza de los distintos peligros y en aceptar el mal menor como la mejor consecuencia».[18]

las acciones inmediatas a la luz de consecuencias que podía anticipar».

La decisión de intentar encontrar una solución rápida y decisiva es una causa frecuente de fracasos.

Evils that befall the world are not nearly so often caused by bad men as they are by good men who are silent when an opinion must be voiced.

You should have died when I killed you.

When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at the latter like a trout to a fly. But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be. or wonder who, after all, you are.

Eat. This time you're eating paper. The next time it's going to be glass.

Cowardice was the fear of doing something because of the risk to one's personal safety—be it physical, emotional, or professional.

His father taught him that standing up for what you believe in comes with a price but that backing down exacts a toll that your soul never stops paying.

Maybe so, but it comes down to this: Do you want the guard to live with the guilt of killing a man? Or do you want to give him a chance to make peace with it?

He took over, and he said: 'If I have to shoot 200,000 students to save China from another 100 years of disorder, so be it.'" - Recalling how former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping dealt with the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests

Any event once it has occurred can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.

The pilot wave theory predicts everything quantum mechanics does, but explains a good deal more. The mysterious way in which the ensemble seems to influence the individual is cleared up and explained straightforwardly as the influence of the wave on the particle. Both are real, and both exist for every individual atom. Everything that was puzzling and mysterious about quantum mechanics is revealed to be a consequence of that theory leaving out half of every story. Despite

If you run away from trouble, it always follows.

Men are not the causers of history. History itself, by a pressure of events, causes men to resort to particular actions.

So thoughtlessly we sling on our destinies.

There can be no doubt: the presence of the atelier has been crucial for its evolution, as a natural consequence of the specific visual culture that the atelier tends to generate.

It doesn't take courage to kill someone,' Klaus said. 'It takes a severe lack of moral stamina.

bravery often demands a price.

If everyone fought fire with fire, the entire world would go up in smoke.

Sometimes, even the best of plans will occur to you when it is too late.