At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.
Maya AngelouGovernment’s first duty and highest obligation is public safety.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerThe essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
George OrwellTheir mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn’t even know you’d done.
Margaret AtwoodDon’t create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act.
Jim MattisThe Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.
Billy GrahamIn any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Theodore RooseveltYou can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.
Hunter S. ThompsonIt 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.
Thomas SowellThe lies of the empire and the treason of the quislings shall be defeated.
Fidel CastroHe that sows thorns should never go barefoot.
Benjamin FranklinAn overflow of good converts to bad.
William ShakespeareEvery action has a consequence. It may be good for strengthening. And I have no doubt that lifting a lot of weights can get you stronger. I just don’t know if lifting stronger weights can keep you healthy, or it can keep you doing your job better, especially for a pro athlete.
Tom BradyEvery right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
John D. RockefellerTo suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.
PlatoEvery guilty person is his own hangman.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaWeight, force and casual impulse, together with resistance, are the four external powers in which all the visible actions of mortals have their being and their end.
Leonardo da VinciHow oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!
William ShakespeareIf 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.
Hunter S. ThompsonGambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.
Hunter S. ThompsonViolence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.
Lao TzuWhatever you have, you must either use or lose.
Henry FordWherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
James MadisonI know of only one duty, and that is to love.
Albert CamusAt 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.
Cristiano RonaldoEverybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.
Kamala HarrisI think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.
Lou HoltzThe excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
PlatoI have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
Thomas JeffersonPeople 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.
Greta ThunbergThere is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the actual consequences of their deeds?
Thomas SowellI believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
John D. RockefellerYou can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.
Ernest HemingwayBy gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
Edmund BurkeThere are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
Samuel JohnsonNothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
George Bernard ShawI think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and white-supremacist domination, and my mother never did. She just could not do it. It just wasn’t in her.
Alice WalkerI think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinSometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road.
Dolly PartonAs the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.
Helen KellerIf you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.
Wayne DyerThe 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.
Noam ChomskyPeople 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.
James BaldwinScience never solves a problem without creating ten more.
George Bernard ShawThere are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
Ernest HemingwaySince the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.
Audrey HepburnI can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
Eleanor RooseveltWe need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.
Colin PowellThe 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.
Keanu ReevesNothing good ever comes of violence.
Martin LutherLeaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.
Henry KissingerUse every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?
William ShakespeareSuccess consecrates the most offensive crimes.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaStupidity has a knack of getting its way.
Albert CamusWe are punished by our sins, not for them.
Elbert HubbardExperience acquired in the heroic battle against Batista’s tyranny showed that the enemy, no matter what his strength, could not defeat the Cuban people.
Fidel CastroWe have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera.
Lou HoltzI venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
Edmund BurkeIf I hit a man, his head is gonna go into the bleachers.
Conor McGregorNo obligation to do the impossible is binding.
Marcus Tullius Cicero