Consequence Quotes

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The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology with profound historical… — Freeman Dyson
...if [the 9/11/01 attacks] had happened to the Russians, about three major cities in the Middle East would have been parking lots in twenty minute… — James Woods
There's too much political hay to be made undercutting the war, and the consequences be damned. If they want to defeat the war to defeat… — James Lileks
The moral consequences of totalitarian propaganda...are destructive of all morals because they undermind one of the foundations of all morals: the sense of and respect… — Friedrich August von Hayek
I'm coming to believe more and more in the truth that everything we do has consequences. A good deed doesn't just evaporate and disappear. — Desmond Tutu
On the one hand, we may tell the truth, regardless of consequences, and on the other hand we may mellow it and sophisticate it to… — H. L. Mencken
The H-bomb rather favors small nations that doesn't as yet possess it; they feel slightly more free to jostle other nations, having discovered that a… — Elwyn Brooks White
Reason deserves to be called a prophet; for in showing us the consequence and effect of our actions in the present, does it not tell… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Man demands truth and fulfills this demand in moral intercourse with other men; this is the basis of all social life. One anticipates the unpleasant… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I'm very interested, in all my books, in community, what binds people together, which I think is an obvious consequence of being the fourth of… — Beth Richardson Gutcheon
God is intelligent; but in what manner? Man is intelligent by the act of reasoning, but the supreme intelligence lies under no necessity to reason.… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It is one of the ironies of history that reformers so often misjudge the consequences of their reforms. — John W. Gardner
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence. — Juvenal
It is generally supposed that where there is no QUOTATION, there will be found most originality; and as people like to lay out their money… — Isaac D'Israeli
For most of us even the imagined threat of criticism functions to control our behavior. We are haunted to some degree by questions about our… — Robert D. Hare
You choose, you live the consequences. Every yes, no, maybe, creates the school you call your personal experience. — Richard Bach
Apperance is a Consequence of Fitness. — Mark Twight
You must be a power on earth, and must therefore accept all the consequences of this position. — Lajos Kossuth
Happiness cannot be the reward of virtue; it must be the intelligible consequence of it. — Walter Lippmann
The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things, as the mere… — Walter Lippmann

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