Consequence Quotes

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There is no justice in love, no proportion in it, and there need not be, because in any specific instance it is only a glimpse… — Marilynne Robinson
The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all… — Adolf Hitler
Courage is the decision to fly straight into the flame while knowing the consequences. — J.V. Hart
We are, all of us, exploring a world none of us understands...searching for a more immediate, ecstatic, and penetrating mode of living...for the integrity, the… — Hillary Clinton
It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts. — Mahatma Gandhi
This illustrates an important truth, namely, that the worse your logic, the more interesting the consequences to which it gives rise. — Bertrand Russell
Who you get, and how it works out- there's so much luck involved, as well as the million branching consequences of your conscious choice of… — Ian Mcewan
...every time you make a decision to be less than what God wants for you, you're denying yourself some of God's blessings. It's up to… — Terri Blackstock
Life is like that, full of words that are not worth saying or that were worth saying once but not any more, each word that… — Jose Saramago
What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what… — John Ruskin
The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority. — Stanley Milgram
Ironically enough, the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the stress of modern war are psychotics. Individual insanity is immune to the consequences… — Aldous Huxley
Private choices are not private; they all have public consequences...Our society is the sum total of what millions of individuals do in their private lives.… — James E. Faust
It was a splendid population - for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home - you never find that sort of people among… — Mark Twain
One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land… — Aldo Leopold
Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions! — George Eliot
So you wish to conquer in the Olympic Games, my friend? And I, too... But first mark the conditions and the consequences. You will have… — Epictetus
On a grander scale, when a society segregates itself, the consequences affect the economy, the emotions, and the ecology. That's one reason why it's easy… — Joel Salatin
He said that men believe the blood of the slain to be of no consequence but that the wolf knows better. He said that the… — Cormac McCarthy
What is the point? We assume that every time we do anything we know what the consequences will be, i.e., more or less what we… — Douglas Adams

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