Consequences Quotes
Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.
To be a real man or woman, you've got to know what you believe in. You've got to understand that your actions have consequences and that they are connected to everything that you are.
Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.
Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.
The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective.
Karma means that all actions have consequences. Grace means that in a moment of atonement -taking responsibility, making amends, asking for forgiveness - all karma is burned.
Steroids can seem necessary to compete at the highest levels, and the quick rewards can outweigh the long term consequences to the user's health.
The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences, and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone.
Actions have consequences... first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions.
The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.
Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions.
Globalization is not a monolithic force but an evolving set of consequences - some good, some bad and some unintended. It is the new reality.
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Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.
We are free to choose our paths, but we can't choose the consequences that come with them.
We make choices. No one else can live our lives for us. And we must confront and accept the consequences of our actions.
The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved.
There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.
Actions have consequences. Ignorance about the nature of those actions does not free a person from responsibility for the consequences. (28)
There was no such thing as luck. Luck was a word idiots used to explain the consequences of their own rashness, and selfishness, and stupidity. More often than not bad luck meant bad plans.
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
There is only one basic human right: the right to do as you please, without causing others harm. With it comes our only basic human duty: the duty to accept the consequences of our actions.
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 the boss, you get unintended consequences.
I think that's the moment when we all grow up, when we stop blaming our parents for the messes we've made out of our lives and start owning the consequences of our actions.
Most drugs work on only about a third of the population, they do no damage to another third, and the final third can have negative consequences.
All religions remind us that actions have consequences for which guilt can and must be acknowledged, forgiveness humbly begged, reconciliation sought.
I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.
Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.
Happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy - it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.
When it comes to social consequences, they've got all different people acting in different ways, very difficult to even have a proper criterion of success. So, it's a difficult task.
The Amulet of Samarkand. It was Simon Lovelace's. Now it is yours. Soon it will be Simon Lovelace's again. Take it and enjoy the consequences.
Adversity is a crossroads that makes a person choose one of two paths: character or compromise. Every time he chooses character, he becomes stronger, even if that choice brings negative consequences.
Clearly there are always unintended consequences of any legislative or regulatory act that's taken in the heat of battle.
It would be immoral to walk away from the consequences of our actions, leaving behind anarchy and civil war in Iraq.
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.
Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
Politics is tricky; it cuts both ways. Every time you make a choice, it has unintended consequences.
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 it a second read through right away.
To be extremely self-centred, only interested in your own satisfaction, always brings negative consequences in the long run.