Quotes About Consequence

The arrogance and brutality of empire are not repealed when they temporarily get deployed in a just cause.

fifth risk: the risk a society runs when it falls into the habit of responding to long-term risks with short-term solutions.

Any good strategist knew that sacrificing a pawn was vastly preferable to risking the king. It was the whole reason armies had infantries.

For this was the other thing that Elric knew: that to compromise with Tyranny is always to be destroyed by it. The sanest and most logical choice lay always in resistance.

He has been disassembled by her. And if she has brought him to this, what has he brought her to?

That's the second time you've apologised in less than a minute, Remo. When you have to do that to an admiral it could be your career on the line.

Cause he got everything to lose.

It was the right thing to do, but it could not be sustained. Not here. The

significance could be found in a

Intelligence, Kant reminds, is not so much a result of genius, rather it is a consequence of a determination to use it.

Whether a man bows down to God or Mammon or to Cthulhu in his dark house at R'lyeh is no affair of mine . . . until he sheds one drop of blood not his own in his deity's name. Then God have mercy upon him, for I shall not.

I do my own habitual scan. I've already completed mental check-offs of the drunks, the painfully pierced, and there have been two iced coffees and a couple sharing a starfruit. Miriam is back in her spot. I go over and ask her, "If you could go back in time and kill Hitler as a baby, would you?

That's the problem with folks nowadays. Nobody takes responsibility for their actions. Make a mistake and you pay for it. That's life.

I was so worried about rocking the boat, I failed to spot the iceberg.

A thought passes across the driver's face. Ruiz has always referred to it as the Dirty Harry moment-that fleeting instant when a person wonders: Am I fast enough or lucky enough?

but we often meet our fate on the road we take to avoid it.

But the truth is a double-edged sword; it is a dangerous thing.

If you have to injure someone, then make it so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

It is indeed probable that more harm and misery has been caused by men determined to use coercion to stamp out a moral evil than by men intent on doing evil. —Friedrich Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty, 1960

Maybe they wanted a good look at what they were about to blow into jingle-bus bolognese. Juice

That's because I believe in what I call consequential epidemiology. That is, by attempting to change what could happen if we don't act, we can positively alter the course of history, rather than merely record and explain it retrospectively.

If I forget about the pain, I might also forget that it was a really stupid idea to do it in the first place.

Be careful how you choose your enemy, for you will come to resemble him. The moment you adapt your enemy's methods your enemy has won. The rest is suffering and historical opera.

All paths cause pain, so to chose the safe over the audacious will not give you less pain, only less beauty.