If we humans are good at anything, it’s thinking we’ve got a terrific idea and going for it without acknowledging the potential… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
If we misuse the gift of sexuality, we're going to suffer the consequences, and I firmly believe we are suffering the consequences. — Salvatore J. Cordileone Copy Share Image
History is not Time; nor is evolution. They are both consequences. Time is a state: the flame in which there lives the… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
The state spends much time and effort persuading the public that it is not really what it is and that the consequences… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
At this level, the individual perceives the maintenance of the expectations of his family, group, or nation as valuable in its own… — Lawrence Kohlberg Copy Share Image
Sentimentality, like pornography, is fragmented emotion; a natural consequence of a high visual gradient in any culture. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It's sometimes too easy to point fingers when circumstances dramatically go awry, but as an addict, I'm ultimately responsible for my own… — Moby Copy Share Image
The greatest danger to the liberal vision are facts about the consequences of liberalism itself and the laws, policies, and ways of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Ideas do have consequences in history, yet not because those ideas are inherently truthful or obviously correct but rather because of the… — James Davison Hunter Copy Share Image
Antonin Scalia knows that freedom of speech has consequences. And the consequences of freedom of speech are speech you don't like, that… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The nice thing about us lot is that what we do is of no consequence. We don't do things that are important;… — Marianne Faithfull Copy Share Image
Doing a film and saying, I've done a really dark film and now I have to do a comedy... That's not me.… — Daniel Craig Copy Share Image
Because many of us make mistakes that can have bad consequences, some intellectuals believe that it is the role of government to… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
America’s founding ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more-and nothing less. The rest-everything that America achieved, everything she became, everything… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
As long as we insist on relating to it strictly on our own terms-as strange to us or subject to us-the wilderness… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
On a grander scale, when a society segregates itself, the consequences affect the economy, the emotions, and the ecology. That's one reason… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
As it turns out, the ecological catastrophe Kirk feared that would be the consequence of our impiety appears not to be one… — Rod Dreher Copy Share Image
My "thinking" time was devoted mainly to activities that were essentially clerical or mechanical: searching, calculating, plotting, transforming, determining the logical or… — J. C. R. Licklider Copy Share Image
In short, my vision of a responsible free society is one in which we discourage evil, but do not prohibit it. We… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
The problem I want to talk to you about tonight is the problem of belief. What does it mean to believe? We… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The great blessing of private property, then, is that people can benefit from their own industry and insulate themselves from the negative… — Tom Bethell Copy Share Image
There's too much political hay to be made undercutting the war, and the consequences be damned. If they want to defeat the… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of… — Robert Sternberg Copy Share Image
Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them. — John Milton Copy Share Image
When once the woman has tempted us, and we have tasted the forbidden fruit, there is no such thing as checking our… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The essence of war is fire, famine, and pestilence. They contribute to its outbreak; they are among its weapons; they become its… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“Each day I learn that every single action we take has its own consequence – for either good or bad.” — Ginny Dye Copy Share Image
It's only knitting and it's one of the few times in your life when there are no bad consequences to a mistake. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Copy Share Image
We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is to insult them without fear of consequences. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The least and most imperceptible impressions received in our infancy have consequences very important and of long duration. — John Locke Copy Share Image
The necessary consequence of an egalitarian program is the decidedly inegalitarian creation of a ruthless power elite. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The exercise of freedom invariably results in some choices that are unwise or wrong. But, by living with the consequences of his… — Edmund A. Opitz Copy Share Image
Every stage of my life set the scene for the next, and at each point all I had to do was say… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
The law does not require a man to cease to be a man, and act without regard to consequences, when he becomes… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences, and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. — Gerda Lerner Copy Share Image
The evil that machinery is doing is not merely in the consequence of its work but in the fact that it makes… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
My role in the government was not to think about narratives and consistency with narratives, but think of the human consequences of… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
