Unintended Consequences Quotes

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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
The term blowback, which officials of the Central Intelligent Agency first invented for their own internal use, . . . refers to the unintended consequences… — Chalmers Johnson
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
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
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
Call me an extremist but killing a few hundred million people seems like the sort of method that might have unintended consequences. — James Nicoll
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
Unintended consequences get to the heart of why you never really understand an adaptive problem until you have solved it. Problems morph and "solutions" often… — Richard Pascale
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
Clearly there are always unintended consequences of any legislative or regulatory act that's taken in the heat of battle. — Richard Grasso
There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. — Steve Jobs
Politics is tricky; it cuts both ways. Every time you make a choice, it has unintended consequences. — Stone Gossard
I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences… — Steve Jobs
The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective. — Richard Schickel
If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem simple but is… — Fareed Zakaria
The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself anymore. Anger is. And when anger is… — Jeanne DuPrau
It's not in the mainstream media yet, but the biggest jump in skin cancer has occurred since the advent of sunscreens. That kind of thing… — George Carlin

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