No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the wit of man than any [constitutional] provisions can be suspended during… — Roger Brooke Taney Copy Share Image
Walls protect and walls limit. It is in the nature of walls that they should fall. That walls should fall is the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
In Buddhist teaching, ignorance is considered the fundamental cause of violence - ignorance... about the separation of self and other... about the… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of many deeds… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
State formation has been a brutal project, with many hideous consequences. But the results exist, and their pernicious aspects should be overcome. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think everyone should treat one another in a Christian manner. I will not, however, be responsible for the consequences. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Peace comes when there is no cloud between us and God. Peace is the consequence of forgiveness, God's removal of that which… — Charles Brent Copy Share Image
I learned about choices and consequences and responsibility. I learned that we all have choices, even when we don't recognize them, and… — John Sheridan Copy Share Image
I think this is the biggest lesson a president or any of us who has responsibility to govern have to learn: There… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
The bottom line is not money but some sort of demonic compulsion that drives these people to lash out against Jesus Christ,… — Michael Medved Copy Share Image
Sadly, semi-consciousness, along with daydreaming, is a capacity that is actively discouraged among children in schools, and our society is much poorer… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
The Clinton's secret is that they live in a morally discontinuous universe-events do not have consequences, and what happened 15 minutes ago… — Lance Morrow Copy Share Image
We know little of the consequences of the geoengineering process, such as spraying particles into the atmosphere that shade the planet from… — Graciela Chichilnisky Copy Share Image
The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame,… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
One thing is certain: the humility of faith, if it is followed by the proper consequences-by the acceptance of the work and… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Politicians had always viewed environmental issues as narrow things of no great political consequence. Sort of NIMBY issues. A big part of… — Denis Hayes Copy Share Image
One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us… — Harry Frankfurt Copy Share Image
Mr. Brown had thought of nothing but numbers. He should have known that the kingdom of God did not depend on large… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
My True Name is so well known in the Records, or Registers at Newgate, and in the Old-Baily, and there are some… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
Obviously cheap sentimentality isn't something any good novelist wants to traffic in, but I think it's a problem if you consider it… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
Of all my children, you were always the hardest on yourself. You were always looking for the right way to behave, so… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
Human rights are an aspect of natural law, a consequence of the way the universe works, as solid and as real as… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I'd like to meet you In a timeless placeless place Somewhere out of context And beyond all consequences. — Suzanne Vega Copy Share Image
From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES when we go against our instincts? What are the consequences of not speaking out? What are the consequences… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
The welfare state shields people from the consequences of their own mistakes, allowing irresponsibility to continue and to flourish among ever wider… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Clearly there are always unintended consequences of any legislative or regulatory act that's taken in the heat of battle. — Richard Grasso Copy Share Image
It is the function of parents to see that their children habitually experience the true consequences of their conduct. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I think that there is a problem with rewards and consequences because in the long run, they rarely work in the ways… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I abhor crime novels in which the main character can behave however he or she pleases, or do things that normal people… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whatever the mind does, the soul has perforce to suffer the consequences of it, because the soul and the mind are knotted… — Charan Singh Copy Share Image
The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only way to create change in anyone's psychology or belief system is to show them the consequences of their actions -… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
There are eternal consequences resulting from all our thoughts, words and actions, of which we take far too little account. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Empirical research has shown that quality tends to be the consequence of quantity when it comes to creativity... Those who produce more… — Dean Keith Simonton Copy Share Image
Most of the things that make you angry are of very small consequence. And what a terrible price you are paying for… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image