Consequences Quotes

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A funny thing happened to the First Amendment on its way to the public forum. According to the Supreme Court, money is now speech and… — Robert Reich
After realizing that we would eventually be able to build molecular machines that could arrange atoms to form virtually any pattern that we wanted, I… — K. Eric Drexler
True obedience is the refusal to compromise in any regard our relationship with God, regardless of the consequences. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
We supplicate all rulers not to remain deaf to the cry of mankind. Let them do everything in their power to save peace. By so… — Pope John XXIII
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
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
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
You choose, you live the consequences. Every yes, no, maybe, creates the school you call your personal experience. — Richard Bach
You must be a power on earth, and must therefore accept all the consequences of this position. — Lajos Kossuth
Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage. — Aristotle
A serious life means being fully aware of the alternatives, thinking about them with all the intensity one brings to bear on life-and-death questions, in… — Allan Bloom
Every error has its consequences and venges itself unto the seventh generation. — Arthur Koestler
Margaret Thatcher was not a malicious person. She was a person who couldn't see, or didn't want to see, the unfairness and disadvantaging consequences of… — Neil Kinnock

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