Consequences are unpitying.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

At Real, psychological pressure on the players is much more serious than at United. This is good. At many clubs, you don’t know the consequence of playing badly.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

He who acts with a constant view to his own advantage will be much murmured against.

If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that’s important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

Any time we are misused or used for a purpose other than what God intended us for, it’s damaging.

I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.

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

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima.

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.

You always have to remember that if you say something negative, it’s going to come back to haunt you.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

Understand: any phenomenon in the world is by nature complex. The people you deal with are equally complex. Any action sets off a limitless chain of reactions. It is never so simple as A leads to B. B will lead to C, D and beyond.

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.

War settles nothing.

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

People are unaware of what is going on. When I talk to people, they know the basics, they know the planet is warming because of greenhouse gases… but they don’t know the actual consequence of that.

May we do good everywhere as we have opportunity, and results will not be wanting!

The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road.

You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it.

By that sin fell the angels.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew’s cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo’s choice to know the truth. It’s a beautiful, beautiful story.

One thing I have learned in my painful career as a gambler is that bragging when you get lucky and win a few games will plunge you into gloom and unacceptable beatings very soon. It happens every time.

It is necessary to look at the results of observation objectively, because you, the experimenter, might like one result better than another.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.

Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high level, even the best product won’t make a company successful.

Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

Every guilty person is his own hangman.

How does a nice Catholic girl end up going to prison for a year? It’s crazy. I’ve made mistakes. I have to pay for those mistakes.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

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

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.

What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.