Quotes about Consequences
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
- Aristotle
The marginal cost of doing something 'just this once' always seems to be negligible, but the full cost will typically be much higher. Yet unconsciously, we will naturally employ the marginal-cost doctrine in our personal lives.
- Clayton M. Christensen
People, heed my warning: That stuff is Specials Olympics in a pint glass. You think they are harmless and not very strong, and the next thing you know it is an hour later and you are in the bathroom of the bar with your pants off, surrounded by five girls, giving your boxers to a bachelorette party because one of the girls is cute and told you that you had a nice butt. Be forewarned. - from the Austin Road Trip story
- Tucker Max
The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
- Victor Hugo
When a man does wrong, he should do all the wrong he can; it is madness to stop half-way in crime!
- Victor Hugo
He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.
- Victor Hugo
Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with the one is wounded with the other.
- Victor Hugo
The galleys make the convict what he is; reflect upon that, if you please.
- Victor Hugo
Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
- Victor Hugo
If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
- Victor Hugo
The first betrayal is irreparable. It calls forth a chain reaction of further betrayals, each of which takes us farther and farther away from the point of our original betrayal
- Milan Kundera
The mark of the superior thinker is his or her ability to accurately predict the consequences of doing or not doing something.
- Brian Tracy