Consequences Quotes
1504 quotes by 1144 authors
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We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts....…
— Calvin Coolidge
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But that night as I drove back to Montreal, I at least discovered this: that there is no simple explanation for anything important any of…
— Hugh MacLennan
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Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege. In other words. It is a privilege to ignore the consequences of…
— Tim Wise
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The transition of world agriculture from food grain to feed grains represents an...evil whose consequences may be far greater and longer lasting than any past…
— Jeremy Rifkin
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Unethical conduct is actually the conduct of destruction and fear; lies are told because one is afraid of the consequences should one tell the truth;…
— L. Ron Hubbard
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If we humans are good at anything, it’s thinking we’ve got a terrific idea and going for it without acknowledging the potential consequences or our…
— David Suzuki
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Do your best and forget the consequences.
— Walter Alston
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Some of this is unavailable to the male-female union: there is more likely to be greater understanding of the need for extramarital outlets between two…
— Andrew Sullivan
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If anything, I would like to see the climate change happen, so the science could be proved right, regardless of the consequences. This isn’t being…
— Phil Jones
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There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of…
— Eric Hobsbawm
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Things always work out for me because I do whatever I want without worrying about the consequences.
— Tucker Max
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The Earth is a living, breathing entity. Without ongoing care and nurturing, there will be consequences too big to ignore.
— David Holmgren
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My "thinking" time was devoted mainly to activities that were essentially clerical or mechanical: searching, calculating, plotting, transforming, determining the logical or dynamic consequences of…
— J. C. R. Licklider
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We know that the Zanj (blacks) are the least intelligent and the least discerning of mankind, and the least capable of understanding the consequences of…
— Ibn Khaldun
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The bad economist sees only what immediately strikes the eye; the good economist also looks beyond. The bad economist sees only the direct consequences of…
— Henry Hazlitt
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We can only escape from the world by outgrowing the world. Death may take man out of the world but only wisdom can take the…
— Manly Hall
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Everything we do has consequences.
— Dennis Potter
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I'm willing to deal with the consequences and accept responsibility for my actions.
— Michael Vick
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Any experience deeply felt makes some men better and some men worse. When it has ended, they share nothing but the recollection of a commitment…
— Murray Kempton
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I think a commission set up to examine slavery and the consequences of it, would probably be a very fruitful, important dialogue for the United…
— Bob Matsui
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