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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.

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

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.

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

Justice is expensive in America. There are no Free Passes… You might want to remember this, the next time you get careless and blow off a few Parking Tickets. They will come back to haunt you the next time you see a Cop car in your rear-view mirror.

The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.

There 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?

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

Gambling 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.

By that sin fell the angels.

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.

Consequences are unpitying.

Sooner or later, jihadist-style terror and WMD are going to come together and the consequences could be horrendous.

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

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

An overflow of good converts to bad.

You 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.

In 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.

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.

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

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

If I hit a man, his head is gonna go into the bleachers.

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

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

I didn’t mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

I’ve written some great things. That’s a gift, but there’s consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

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.

Short cuts make long delays.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.

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.

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

But if you – if what – the reports are true, what they’re saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that’s going to increase our costs, we knew that.

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better.

So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.

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.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

War settles nothing.

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.

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

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.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

Smooth functioning of social life has always depended on the recognition of certain basic limits to behavior. We cannot simply say or do anything we wish, or offend people, without paying consequences – isolation, ostracism, etc.

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

It’s what counts, isn’t it, on the Sunday, rather than pre-season testing. If you lock up, you do a little mistake, it’s nothing, but if you do it on Sunday, you lose a place or you have to box for a flat spot or something like that. It’s a much bigger problem.

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

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.

Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.

I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.

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