I wondered how many times in my life I had done something just because I wanted to without weighing the consequences. — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Preparatory human beings. - I welcome all signs that a more virile, warlike age is about to begin, which will restore honour… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
As matters now stand, the combination of genocide, as conventionally understood, and crimes against humanity, seems sufficient to cover the criminality of… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
The structures of neoliberal violence have put the vocabulary of democracy on life support, and one consequence is that subjectivity and education… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Having confidence in a free society is to focus on the process of discovery in the marketplace of values rather than to… — Ken Schoolland Copy Share Image
Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
One of the greatest gains of capitalism is that even the proletarian slave feels like a master. He believes he has the… — Renata Salecl Copy Share Image
What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or surprise,… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
In an economy, an act, a habit, an institution, or a law, gives birth not only to an effect, but to a… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
The erosion of agency has consequences for our politics. As a result of all this, the fundamental ethical challenge of the anthropocene… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
There are more consequences to a shipwreck than the underwriters notice. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Most of us think that decisions such as where shall I live, with whom shall I partner, what shall I pick as… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
...in consequence of the film of familiarity and selfish solicitude, we have eyes yet see not, ears that hear not, and hearts… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Your believing or not believing in karma has no effect on its existence, nor on its consequences to you. Just as a… — F. Paul Wilson Copy Share Image
The U.S. has the largest prison population in the world: two million people. One out of every eight prisoners in the world… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
The Indian government has managed to turn the concept of nonviolence on its head. Nonviolent resistance and nonviolent governance. Unlike, say, China… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I think we make our own hell down here during our life times- the penalty for not being true; the punishment for… — Heather Nova Copy Share Image
One of the most insidious consequences of the present burden of personal income tax is that it strips many middle class families… — William Henry Chamberlin Copy Share Image
The average woman must inevitably view her actual husband with a certain disdain; he is anything but her ideal. In consequence, she… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
There is no justice in love, no proportion in it, and there need not be, because in any specific instance it is… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The consequences of President Johnsons campaign of deliberate deception regarding Vietnam could hardly have been more catastrophic for the nation, the military,… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
To go to prison because of your convictions and be prepared to suffer for what you believe in, is something worthwhile. It… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
