Consequences Quote by Robert Lucas, Jr

There is no action of man in this life that is not the beginning of so long a chain of consequences as no human…

— Thomas Hobbes

The consequences for human welfare involved in questions about human capital spillovers are simply staggering. Once one starts to think about them, it's hard…

— Robert Lucas, Jr

Any attempt to shape the world and modify human personality in order to create a self-chosen pattern of life involves many unknown consequences. Human…

— Rene Dubos

It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because the ethical…

— Zadie Smith

“Human beings," said the Ship's Confessor, "cannot designate a 'current best candidate' without psychological consequences. Human rationalists learn to discuss an issue as thoroughly…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

“We cannot ignore the meaning of mad cow. It is one more warning about unintended consequences, about human arrogance and the blind worship of…

— Eric Schlosser

“Cancer and the autoimmune diseases of various sorts are, by and large, diseases of civilization. While industrialized society organized along the capitalist model has…

— Gabor Maté

Once one starts to think about them, it is hard to think about anything else.

— Robert Lucas, Jr

The visions of the INFJs tend to concern human welfare, and their contributions are likely to be made independent of a mass movement.

— Isabel Briggs Myers

Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare.

— William Vickrey

I submit that the Government exists to provide for the needs of the people, and when it comes to choice between profits and property…

— J. S. Woodsworth

It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.

— Harriet Martineau