Quotes About Consequence

I have learned that we can live with a bad decision, but we are certain to be hurt by no decision.

As the Southern Poverty Law Center explained: "white skin privilege is not something that white people necessarily do, create or enjoy on purpose," but is rather an unavoidable consequence of the "transparent preference for whiteness that saturates our society." In other words, even if white Americans were no longer racists, they were.

History judges you by your success or failure," he pontificated. "That's what counts. Nobody asks the victor whether he was in the right or wrong." Before

The White Throne Judgment will be nothing like our modern court cases. At the White Throne, there will be a Judge but no jury, a prosecution but no defense, a sentence but no appeal.

Remember 'karma'. As you sow, you shall reap. If you are not greedy and make sure that the next

There is no such thing as no choice. There is always a choice. The only question is whether it's a bearable one.

These kinds of fights can never be won - even if you're the victor, you've hurt the other person, and there has to be some loss associated with that.

Even if you're the victor, you've hurt the other person, and there has to be some loss associated with that.

Dead is dead. For whatever reason. And in choice between life and death, there is no other choice.

He was this constant, living reminder of my biggest mistake.

I am liking him enough to know that a different time and a different place might have led to a different outcome. But since I'm not planning on leaving this time or place anytime soon, it's not a point worth making.

If you think about it hard enough, if you trace potential reverberations long enough, every step can be a false step, any move can lead to an unintended consequence. Who am I ignoring that I shouldn't be ignoring? What am I not saying that I should be saying? What won't I notice that she would absolutely notice? While I'm out in the public hallways, what private languages am I not hearing?

The train comes. If you stay on the tracks, you die. If you jump off the bridge, you die, There's always a train coming eventually.

Silence equals death, we'd say. And underneath that would be the assumption—the fear—that death equaled silence.

David Foster Wallace: I always fear that when I really impose my will on something, the universe is gonna punish me.

and a knell rang in the ears of the victors, even in their hour of triumph. —Winston Churchill, 1927

He considers turning back but he knows what lies behind him and he wants no part of it. Just as it wants no part of him.

of karma," or "You get what you give," or "You reap what you sow.

When you refuse the devil, you always think you'll get another chance, another offer. A final refusal feels like a penalty of a different kind.

La victoria separa más que la derrota.

In August, Douglass righteously claimed that "everyone knows that this is the slaveholders' rebellion and nothing else." The war, he said, was the work of a "privileged class of irresponsible despots, authorized tyrants and blood-suckers, who fasten upon the Negro's flesh, and draw political power and consequence from their legalized crimes.

And as he headed around the curve of the ship toward the bridge, he wondered distantly if he would go down in history as a footnote, or as the prime offender in a major interstellar incident.

The purpose of shooting someone as an object lesson is to convince other people to pay attention to it, and that takes time.

Tubby Robbins took me apart in the '39 Grand Final and when I got home Rosemary said, "I think you met your match today," and I thumped her one. She apologised later but by that time the damage was done.