Quotes About Consequence

One rash person in the right place and earth could be a sterile cinder in seconds, but that's been more-or-less true for a century.

Power without moral direction is the most dangerous force in the world.

Those who do not know the danger of wielding power will, before long, be ruled by it.

236Understand the consequences of counting the moments.

Be careful when power comes to thee also, lest thou too shouldst smite in thine anger or thy jealousy, for unconquerable strength is a sore weapon in the hands of erring man

Don't be blurred by impulse, to avoid regrets, refrain from doing things that will make you regret.

If God wished to punish us, all he would need to do would be to answer our prayers.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

It was no true prayer to beg forgiveness while choosing to sin.

The power to hurt ... has evolved in a direct relationship to technological advancement.

I'd of shot him in town if he lived that long.

The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.

Let the punishment fit the crime.

For 'tis the sport to have the enginerHoist with his own petar.

This is the nightThat either makes me or fordoes me quite.

Why should I play the Roman fool; and dieOn mine own sword?

Things without all remedyShould be without regard: what's done is done.

To do a great right, do a little wrong.

It [drink] provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance.

Thus when I shun Scylla, your father, I fall into Charybdis, your mother.

And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere wellIt were done quickly; if the assassinationCould trammel up the consequence, and catchWith his surcease success; that but this blowMight be the be-all and the end-all here,But here, upon this bank and shoal of time,We'd jump the life to come.

Were it goodTo set the exact wealth of all our statesAll at one cast? to set so rich a mainOn the nice hazard of one doubtful hour?