Quotes about Consequences

Constructive ends can never give absolute moral justification to destructive means, because in the final analysis the end is preexistent in the means.

Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness.

It is bad enough to have a bear in your house, but it does not seem to me to mend matters if you call in a pack of ferocious wolves as well.

Nature is unfathomable because we seek after causes and consequences in a realm where this form is not to be found. We try to reach the inner being of nature, which looks out at us from every phenomenon, under the guidance of the principle of sufficient reason - whereas this is merely the form under which our intellect comprehends appearance, i.e. the surface of things, while we want to employ it beyond the bounds of appearance; for within these bounds it is serviceable and sufficient.

We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.

Let us destroy, but don't let us pretend that we are commiting an act of virtue.

Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

Money is the product of virtue, but it will not give you virtue and it will not redeem your vices

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet

If there were events earlier than this time, then they could not affect what happens at the present time. Their existence can be ignored because it would have no observational consequences.

Economics is also an effective theory, based on the notion of free will plus the assumption that people evaluate their possible alternative courses of action and choose the best. That effective theory is only moderately successful in predicting behavior because, as we all know, decisions are often not rational or are based on a defective analysis of the consequences of the choice. This is why the world is in such a mess.

The low esteem in which science and scientists are held is having serious consequences. We live in a society that is increasingly governed by science and technology, yet fewer and fewer young people want to go into science.