Unintended Quotes

62 quotes by 56 authors

I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy -… — Madeleine Albright
Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects. — Leon Kass
War has all the characteristics of socialism most conservatives hate: Centralized power, state planning, false rationalism, restricted liberties, foolish optimism about intended results, and blindness… — Joseph Sobran
For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a… — Viktor E. Frankl
Senate Bill 1062 does not address a specific and present concern related to religious liberty in Arizona. I have not heard of one example in… — Jan Brewer
The term blowback, which officials of the Central Intelligent Agency first invented for their own internal use, . . . refers to the unintended consequences… — Chalmers Johnson
There is no question but that when one is engaged militarily that there are going to be unintended loss of life. — Donald Rumsfeld
Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful. — Margaret J. Wheatley
It is...highly probable that from the very beginning, apart from death, the only ironclad rule of human experience has been the Law of Unintended Consequences. — Ian Tattersall
With calm, knowledgeable precision, Daniel Ziblatt wades into the adjacent swamps of federalism and nineteenth-century European history, emerging with hands full of gems. Beneath the… — Charles Tilly
But HBO is less interested in how many people are watching than in how much the people who are watching are liking the show. They… — Aaron Sorkin
The only rationale that the states put forth with any conviction-that same-sex couples and their children don't need marriage because same-sex couples can't produce children,… — Richard Posner
Having confidence in a free society is to focus on the process of discovery in the marketplace of values rather than to focus on some… — Ken Schoolland
Happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy - it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself. — Viktor E. Frankl
Contraceptives have a proven track record of enhancing the health of women and children, preventing unintended pregnancy, and reducing the need for abortion. — Louise Slaughter
Unintended Consequences is full of substance, it is one of the must-read books of the year, and once I finish it I will be giving… — Tyler Cowen
Some of the worst writing around suffers from inert verbs and the unintended use of the passive voice. Yet the passive voice remains an important… — Constance Hale
Call me an extremist but killing a few hundred million people seems like the sort of method that might have unintended consequences. — James Nicoll
But the consequences of the whole-hearted and uncritical embrace of politics by Christians has been, IN EFFECT, to reduce Christian faith to a political ideology… — James Davison Hunter
Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place. — Margaret J. Wheatley

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