Consequence Quotes

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

One cannot have any respect or regard for men who take the position of the reformer and then refuse to see the logical consequences of that position, let alone following them out in action.

Where there is no freedom, there is death and destruction.

Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.

It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.

The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved.'

There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the consequence for the cause.

Every step forward is made at the cost of mental and physical pain to someone.

Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.

Beware of spitting against the wind!

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 consequences of reciprocal lying. From this there arises the duty of truth. We permit epic poets to lie because we expect no detrimental consequences in this case. Thus the lie is permitted where it is considered something pleasant. Assuming that it does no harm, the lie is beautiful and charming.

Anything which is a living and not a dying body... will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive to grow, spread, seize, become predominant-not from any morality or immorality but because it is living and because life simply is will to power... 'Exploitation'... belongs to the essence of what lives, as a basic organic function; it is a consequence of the will to power, which is after all the will to life.

The truth must be told, even if the world should be shivered in fragments.

Every kind of perfection is purchased at a high price on earth, where everything is perhaps purchased too dear; one is an expert in one's department at the price of being also a victim of one's department.

The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower.

The U.S. cannot allow EBOLA-infected people back. People that go to far away places to help out are great - but must suffer the consequences!

It's long past time for all Americans and the media to confront the fact that violence and murder are the tragic consequence of demonizing those with whom you disagree day after day, year after year, in the most hateful and despicable way possible.

When a Secretary of State illegally stores her emails on a private server, deletes 33,000 of them so the authorities can't see her crime, puts our country at risk, lies about it in every different form and faces no consequence - I know that corruption has reached a level like never before.

To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.

The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible.