Quotes about Consequences
There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
The falseness of your own hearts, if you look not to them, may undo you(15).
— Richard Baxter
Words and actions are transient things, and being once past, are nothing; but the effect of them on an immortal soul may be endless.
— Richard Baxter
Measured against eternity, our time on earth is just a blink of an eye, but the consequences of it will last forever.
— Rick Warren
Death is not your termination but your transition into eternity, so there are eternal consequences to everything you do on earth. Every act of our lives strikes some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
— Rick Warren
Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin.
— Albert Camus
Power can be very addictive, and it can be corrosive. And it's important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power, whether it be here or elsewhere.
— George H. W. Bush
Money often costs too much, and power and pleasure are not cheap.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
True obedience is the refusal to compromise in any regard our relationship with God, regardless of the consequences.
— AW Tozer
We cannot put a noose around another man's neck without first hanging ourselves.
— Henry David Thoreau
We are all guilty... [But the opportunity to make money] can draw a film across the eyes, so thick, that total blindness could do no more... A trade founded in iniquity must be abolished... let the consequences be what they will.
— William Wilberforce
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
— Winston Churchill