Consequences Quotes

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Don’t mess with me, sir, or you will get stung.

There are no solutions; there are only trade-offs.

We've all made bad decisions, but they haven't always been resulting in the deaths of innocent people.

Our time of trouble is because we have not paid good attention to the Messenger of God that He raised among us to warn us of the days that we are now witnessing; days when factories closed and long lines of persons looking for a job. He asked us to get up and do something for ourselves before we were forced to do it. Unfortunately we did not listen.

One who becomes compassionate to the cruel will ultimately become cruel to the compassionate

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split.

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

There’s no question whatsoever that conquered people have been treated in a terrible way. Being conquered by the Romans was not a fate you would wish on anyone. But the fact is that the net result has been that those parts of Europe conquered by the Romans have been the most advanced parts of Europe for centuries. Similarly, when someone black says . . . ‘I’m worse off because of slavery,’ there’s no way in hell you can say that with a straight face. If you’re going to base reparations on the difference between where blacks today would be if it were not for slavery, then blacks would have to pay reparations to white people.

People always suffer for what governments have done.

We need a science to save us from science.

Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.

The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.

If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.

You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.

Oh people, know that you have committed great sins. If you ask me what proof I have for these words, I say it is because I am the punishment of God. If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you!

I come as a punishment from God.

To spare the guilty is to injure the innocent.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. An apparently trivial indulgence in lust or anger today is the loss of a ridge or railway line or bridgehead from which the enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible.

If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.

If the war is lost, the nation will also perish. This fate is inevitable. There is no necessity to take into consideration the basis for which the people will need to continue a most primitive existence. On the contrary, it will be better to destroy these things ourselves because this nation will have proved to be the weaker one and the future will belong solely to the stronger eastern nation [Russia]. Besides, those who will remain after the battle are only the inferior ones, for the good ones have been killed.

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality

Beware of your wishes: They will probably come true.