Consequence Quotes

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Imagine the consequences if Saddam fails to comply and we fail to act. Saddam will be emboldened, believing the international community has lost its will.… — Sandy Berger
One day they might. I accept that in the short term the consequences are terrible. No one minimises those and I'm not seeking to do… — Geoff Hoon
When it is over, if it is over, this war will have horrible consequences. Instead of having one Bin Laden, we will have 100 Bin… — Hosni Mubarak
In academic life, false ideas are merely false and useless ones can be fun to play with. In political life, false ideas can ruin the… — Michael Ignatieff
They're in the red zone. They're in the last 20 yards, and you can't let them cross that goal line. You can't let them score… — Benjamin Netanyahu
Real repentance means that a man has come, not only to be sorry for the consequences of his sin, but to hate sin itself. — William Barclay
In the meane time know this, that the learning of warranties is one of the most curious and cunning learnings of the law, and of… — Edward Coke
God does not cause our misfortunes. Some are caused by bad luck, some are caused by bad people, and some are simply an inevitable consequence… — Harold S. Kushner
It seems to me that you are better off, as a writer and as an American, in a small town than you'd be in New… — H. L. Mencken
The position I took at the time was that we hadn't really examined any of the potential environmental consequences of introducing genetically modified organisms. — Jeremy Rifkin
No human government has a right to enquire into private opinions, to presume that it knows them, or to act on that presumption. Men are… — Charles James Fox
Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility. — William Godwin
Become aware of internal, subjective, subverbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with… — Abraham Maslow
Of all the intellectual hurdles which the human mind has confronted and has overcome in the last fifteen hundred years the one which seems to… — Herbert Butterfield
When it comes to social consequences, they've got all different people acting in different ways, very difficult to even have a proper criterion of success.… — George Soros
I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans natural competitiveness and the possibilities… — Vernor Vinge
Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work. — William Julius Wilson
Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and… — Alan Watts
The horror of Gandhi's murder lies not in the political motives behind it or in its consequences for Indian policy or for the future of… — Mary McCarthy
The transition from rebellion to acceptance has an extremely important consequence. . . in which we start seeing life as a training school, to teach… — Piero Ferrucci

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