Consequence Free Quotes

Because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.

As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement: 'And that's the way it is.' To me, that encapsulates the newsman's highest ideal: to report the facts as he sees them, without regard for the consequences or controversy that may ensue.

To be able to think freely, a man must be certain that no consequence will follow whatever he writes.

Disregard for the consequences and for right and wrong nowadays passes as energy.

Most people have learned to live in the moment. The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present, there is no need to dwell on the past. And if the present has little effect on the future, present actions need not be weighed for their consequence. Rather, each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own. ... It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity. It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning.

It's just like my dream to shoot things with no consequences.

The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.

We must do what we conceive to be the right thing, and not bother our heads or burden our souls with whether we are going to be successful. Because if we don't do the right thing, we'll be doing the wrong thing, and we will just be part of the disease, and not a part of the cure.

When there are no consequences, being wrong is simply a diversion.

In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by their sense of the Spirit behind the action, not by any speculations as to consequences which might ensue. And so they found the truth.

At the end of the day, every child has learned the Lesson of Spin: Almost every wrong action can be stripped of consequences, along with the need for feelings of guilt and remorse.

That's the thing: We didn't really care. A world without love is also a world without stakes.

'Real talk' refers to the act of speaking the honest truth about something or someone without fear of consequence.

Acting's not particularly complicated. But the great thing is you can step into somebody else's shoes without dealing with the consequences. It's very therapeutic in that way.

Once you accept the fact that there's nothing to fear, you drill into the primal oil well. I believe when we do things without fear, we can do anything. As long as you don't worry about the consequences.

The trend towards pure art betrays not arrogance, as is often thought, but modesty. Art that has rid itself of human pathos is a thing without consequence.

Things always work out for me because I do whatever I want without worrying about the consequences.

The Clinton's secret is that they live in a morally discontinuous universe-events do not have consequences, and what happened 15 minutes ago has no connection to what happens now. Beware of power when it masters the secret of popular amnesia.

Anonymity is a universal convention of the blogosphere, and the wicked expedience is that you can speak without consequences.

We must love all facts, not for their consequences, but because in each fact God is there present.

I say what I want to say when I feel like it, regardless of what the consequence is.