Quotes About Consequence

There are two positions available to us – either crime which renders us happy, or the noose, which prevents us from being unhappy.

La culpa se apresura siempre hacia su complemento, el castigo, y sólo allí encuentra satisfacción.

Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie.

Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.

Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.

We must care to think about the unthinkable things, because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

One may say that predictions are dangerous particularly for the future. If the danger involved in a prediction is not incurred, no consequence follows and the uncertainty principle is not violated.

Only the doctor and the judge have the right to inflict the death penalty without receiving the same.

Science shows us what exists but not what to do about it.

A very small cause, which escapes us, determines a considerable effect which we cannot ignore, and we say that this effect is due to chance.

Sorry has got to be the most over-used cliched get-out clause in the history of mankind. Tossed out flippantly without any real meaning or substance.

Remember, I'm the only person her who's paid to be nice to you. But not too nice. Give me any lip and I'll break your face. OK?

Displacement of 'What goes around, comes around' is Zero.

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

The voice on the other end said, "Lord Mollusk, we've lost China." "Define lost." "It's not there anymore, sir." "Well, that's no good, is it?" I said. "No, sir. We thought you should know." "Yes, I'll look into it. Mollusk out.

Luke, I don't want to discourage your curiosity, but I have to remind you, if something goes wrong, this is an exceptionally embarrassing way to die.

Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Will you hazard so desperate a step while there is any possibility that any portion of the ills you fly from have no real existence? Will you, while the certain ills you fly to are greater than all the real ones you fly from—will you risk the commission of so fearful a mistake?

The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.

guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.