The greatest thing that science teaches you is the law of unintended consequences. — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
The direct consequence is that we have to fight with each other in order to survive. — Bernard Lietaer Copy Share Image
When you act dramatically in that way it often has a consequence that is very negative. — George Woodcock Copy Share Image
The consequences of man-made climate change are real and very significant. — Jeff Orlowski Copy Share Image
You have to be aware what the consequences are of the approach you take. — Karin Tidbeck Copy Share Image
I'm just worried about the unintended consequences of the laws. — Mary Katharine Ham Copy Share Image
What your foes do derives its significance or consequence from the way you react. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Eating meat is a leftover of the greatest brutality [killing]; the transition to vegetarianism is the first and most natural consequence of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often. That's a consequence of exploration. Exploration is what you do when you don't… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“However, in many instances we might be very wise to ask what the consequence of removing the consequence might actually be.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
We know that the Zanj (blacks) are the least intelligent and the least discerning of mankind, and the least capable of understanding… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Fanaticism in many lands has surfaced as the greatest threat to the world. Indifference to its consequences would be a serious mistake. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Karma means that all actions have consequences. Grace means that in a moment of atonement -taking responsibility, making amends, asking for forgiveness… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
This is the inevitable consequence of a popular movie: you become the guy who wrote "the book that inspired the movie." Frankly… — Sergei Lukyanenko 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
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 Egyptians had a particularly nasty way of getting rid of people they felt had no consequence. Instead of embalming them, they… — Perry Brass 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
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
Kings ought never to be seen upon the stage. In the abstract, they are very disagreeable characters: it is only while living… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We are reaching a tipping where the pace of settlements, during the course of my presidency has gotten so substantial that it's… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The West would be well advised to change its approach towards failing states. At present, no major power can find the correct… — Ahmed Rashid Copy Share Image
It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of… — Henry George Copy Share Image
“Shall I speak of the consequence One, that your attention causes? Words you utter keep me stunned, My heart stops up at… — Zubair Ahsan Copy Share Image
Most Britons still lived and died without encountering anyone whose skin colour was different from their own. Slaves, in short, did not… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
All media work us over completely. They are so pervasive in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical, and social consequences… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Activist Supreme Courts are not new. The Dred Scott decision in 1856, imposing slavery in free territories; the Plessy decision in 1896,… — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
You can be free from everything but the consequences of what you do. — Isabelle Holland Copy Share Image
Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
There are consequences if you act militarily, and there's big consequences if you don't act. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can’t violate someone’s trust and expect there to be no consequences. — Susane Colasanti Copy Share Image
Remember, you may choose your sin, but you cannot chose the consequences. — Jenny Sanford Copy Share Image