Quotes about Consequences
The first breathe of adultery is the freest.
— John Updike
This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man who succeeds who is a threat to this country.
— Theodore Roosevelt
I learned one thing in Watergate: I was well-intentioned but rationalized illegal behavior, he said. You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.
— Chuck Colson
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
— Erica Jong
Short cuts make for long delays.
— JRR Tolkien
You can commit injustice by doing nothing.
— Marcus Aurelius
Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.
— Margaret Atwood
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
One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and not be held responsible. [Cultural Factors in the Cause of Pathological Homicide. Bulletin of Menninger Clinic ]
— Margaret Mead
You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A coat that is not used, the moths eat; and a Christian who is hung up so that he shall not be tempted-the moths eat him; and they have poor food at that.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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.
— Marianne Williamson