consequences quotes

The fact is, violence is not only not a beautiful thing, but it’s also very painful and not without consequences for the perpetrator as well as the victim.

One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

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.

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

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer – and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

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.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

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

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.

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.

Every 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.

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That’s not a guess, it’s a guarantee. With pride, it’s not a matter of ‚if‘ we will fall, but ‚when.‘ There are no exceptions.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

Perhaps if you are in support functions waiting on the warfighters to spell out the specifics of what you are to do, you can avoid the consequences of not reading. Those who must adapt to overcoming an independent enemy’s will are not allowed that luxury.

Every guilty person is his own hangman.

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.

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.

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

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

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

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

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

I bought a gun and chose drugs instead.

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

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Don’t create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

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

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children’s children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.

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

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

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

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

Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.

Their 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.

I was sure I’d set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth – that I hadn’t set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if ‚The Big Trail‘ had been a success and launched me as a star.

What you don’t do can be a destructive force.

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.

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don’t want victories anymore.

There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

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

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

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.

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

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

Hell isn’t merely paved with good intentions; it’s walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.