Quotes About Consequence

We have defeated Saddam Hussein and Iraq. The good news is Iraq is ours, and the bad news is Iraq is ours.

She has good instincts, but wrong judgments. She'll rue the day.

Sometimes the good guy rips out innocent people's throats. That's just something the world need to live with if it wants the good guy to keep saving the day.

Good and bad karma are just ways of evaluating causal experience. What you do affects your attention field.

The idea that people do very bad things for sometimes very good reasons, feels reasons.

You can't be afraid to do good in case evil results.

When you are made to choose between two good things... Don't just think of what you'll get when you pick one. But think of what you'll lose when you don't choose the other.

The head raised too high even in good will be struck off too soon.

There is another consequence of any belief in a single god, and that is that it is a very good excuse for people to behave very badly.

Sometimes good people have to do terrible things.

Our faults afflict us more than our good deeds console. Pain is ever uppermost in the conscience as in the heart.

If some among you fear taking a stand because you are afraid of reprisals from customers, clients, or even government, recognize that you are just feeding the crocodile hoping he'll eat you last.

Never blame a legislative body for not doing something. When they do nothing, that don't hurt anybody. When they do something is when they become dangerous.

I go to the chair of government with feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.

Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.

I think there is a huge responsibility upon governments to understand the consequence of their decisions.

A bloody good thing, but too late.

Supporting a dictator is no different than eating a poisonous mushroom!

There is nothing so dreadful as a great victory--except a great defeat.

great men burn bridges before they come to them

Happiness is something that comes from creating good karma. The monk who feels that what they are doing is unpleasant is not really creating any good karma and will not have a better lifetime.

Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.

Sin can bring pleasure, but never happiness.

Happiness cannot be the reward of virtue; it must be the intelligible consequence of it.