Consequence Quotes

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The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or Spain… — Barry Eichengreen
If terrorists succeeded in using a weapon of mass destruction against the U.S. or one of our allies, it would likely have catastrophic consequences for… — Tommy Franks
By every measure, John Kennedy's sex life was compulsive and reckless. At one level, it had clear public consequences. Knowledge of Kennedy's behavior gave FBI… — Jeff Greenfield
I don't know if I have a voice of my own. I don't see me being an important person with something to say. I haven't.… — Peter Ackroyd
It sometimes seems to me that the whole course of English history was one of accident, confusion, chance and unintended consequences - there's no real… — Peter Ackroyd
The consequence of a world full of nuclear powers to me is so incomprehensible in terms of the dangers that that implies. — Lawrence Eagleburger
The problem with much of the debate over this issue is that we confuse two separate matters: immigration policy (how many people we admit) and… — Tom Tancredo
Places change over time with or without oil spills, but humans are responsible for the Deepwater Horizon gusher - and humans, as well as the… — Sylvia Earle
Like most severely overweight people, I had to hit a rock-hard bottom before I'd take responsibility for the consequences of neglecting my own health. — Stephen Furst
...those experiments be not only esteemed which have an immediate and present use, but those principally which are of most universal consequence for invention of… — Francis Bacon
For these two years I have been gravitating towards your doctrines, and since the publication of your primula paper with accelerated velocity. By about this… — Thomas Huxley
Take an arrow, and hold it in flame for the space of ten pulses, and when it cometh forth you shall find those parts of… — Francis Bacon
For men to focus on controlling women's reproduction to solve a society's problems seems nothing short of mad or, at best, superstitious. But men's superstition… — Marilyn French
Any attempt to shape the world and modify human personality in order to create a self-chosen pattern of life involves many unknown consequences. Human destiny… — Rene Dubos
High-consequence risks form one particular segment of the generalised 'climate of risk' characteristic of late modernity - one characterised by regular shifts in knowledge-claims as… — Anthony Giddens
High-consequence risks have a distinctive quality. The more calamitous the hazards they involve, the less we have any real experience of what we risk: for… — Anthony Giddens
Abstract systems depend on trust, yet they provide none of the moral rewards which can be obtained from personalised trust, or were often available in… — Anthony Giddens
The thesis that risk assessment itself is inherently risky is nowhere better borne out than in the area of high-consequence risks. — Anthony Giddens
Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence. — Ben Harper
We don't want crimes committed in New Mexico falling through the cracks. This legislation ensures that there is no area of our state where crimes… — Pete Domenici

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