Quotes About Consequence

I've never killed a man, but I've read many an obituary with a great deal of satisfaction.

Remorse is nothing more than a foresight of the bodily pain to which some crime has exposed us.

Un ignorante con poder es una fatalidad.

Lo único que no está marcado, decía Robert, es qué hará cada persona después de pasar por esa circunstancia.

Global warming is a universal behavior of listlessness and lack of discipline.

Its a hell of a thing, killing a man. You take away everything he's got and everything he's ever gonna have.

You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers.

That, in fact, was the joke that killed him: he was arrested soon after making

Apart from the brave few who went underground and fought at the risk of their lives, the French intellectuals gave the Nazis little trouble, and were morally compromised as a consequence.

You don't think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.

post hoc, propter hoc

DaÅ' ci Bóg nikczemnÄ… posta?, jeÅ›li siÄ™ ludzie nie bÄ™dÄ… ciebie bali, to siÄ™ bÄ™dÄ… z ciebie Å›mieli.

Ethos anthropoi daimon--a man's character is his fate.

Never take a risk out of pride, impatience, or a desire to get it over with.

Every cause produces more than one effect.

Insight is an outcome, not an input.

It was a kind of Cadmean victory.

Often a whole community together suffers in consequence of a bad man who does wrong and contrives evil

He served his god so faithfully and well That now he sees him face to face in hell.

By making the choice to stay you are participating in a crime.

That's the point of a promise, he thinks. It wouldn't have any value, if you could see what it would cost you when you made it.

But if you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?

You can strike, or you can not strike, and if you choose to hold back the blow, you can still feel inside you the resonance of the omitted thing.

This is Maximilien de Robespierre, barrister-at-law: unmarried, personable, a young man with all his life before him. Today against his most deeply held convictions he has followed the course of the law and sentenced a criminal to death. And now he is going to pay for it.