Consequence Quote by T. J. Jackson Lears Download Open image “All history is the history of unintended consequences.” — T. J. Jackson Lears ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Consequence History Unintended consequences
The law of unintended consequences is the only real law of history. — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences, and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. — Gerda Lerner Copy Share Image
History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened. — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race. — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
There are two consequences in history; an immediate one, which is instantly recognized, and one in the distance, which is not at first perceived.… — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
The moment I realised that my history was an excuse for nothing, was the moment I was freed from my history. The great danger… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
We need to take nostalgia seriously as an energizing impulse, maybe even a form of knowledge. The effort to revalue what has been lost… — T. J. Jackson Lears Copy Share Image
Nick Yablon ranges widely, from log cabins to skyscrapers and from Tocqueville to pulp fiction. He combines imaginative research with probing interpretation. Untimely Ruins… — T. J. Jackson Lears Copy Share Image
I hope that the Palestinians don't make the mistake of unleashing a new intifada. They've tried it twice before, and the consequences were bad… — Tom Segev Copy Share Image
The world's problems are, by and large, human problems-the unavoidable consequence of egoic sleepwalking. If we care to look, all the signs are present… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
When the first Superman movie came out I was frequently asked "What is a hero?" ...My answer was that a hero is someone who… — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
It's easy to make mistakes. It's living with the consequences of them that's the hardest. — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Actions have consequences... first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Cultivate the habit of thinking ahead, and of anticipating the necessary and immediate consequences of all your actions.... Likewise in your pleasures, ask yourself… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences. — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
Washington bureaucrats have classified the very air we exhale as a pollutant and have gone unchallenged in this incredible assertion. The logical consequence is… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Any kind of restrictions put on free speech would have worse consequences than bullying. — Lady Starlight Copy Share Image
