Consequences of Action Quotes

Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.

If I have written too polemically, it is only because of the passionate concern that we consider because it is too late whether we truly know what we are doing.

Had I accepted the pickle juice, I would be drinking pickle juice right now.

No man resolved to make the most of himself, can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper, and the loss of self-control. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own. Better to give your path to a dog, than be bitten by him in contesting the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite

If you take action, you will be judged. There's no way around it. The alternative, of course, is much safer. To be ignored. Up to you.

It is madness to attempt to hold. In the first place the troops cannot do it and in the second place if they do not retreat they will be destroyed. I repeat that this order be rescinded or that you find someone else.

One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

“...the consequences of militancy do not disappear when the need for militancy is over.

There are no simple answers in life. There is a good and bad in everyone and everything. No decision is made without consequence. No road is taken that doesn't lead to another. What's important is that those roads always be kept open, for there's no telling what wonder they might lead to.

Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

'The Author' is a play about responsibility, how active we are as spectators and how responsible we are for what we choose to look at.

Presidents make their hard decisions and then abide forever with their mistakes and regrets.

My dad used to tell me, 'Check the price, son.' Check the price, kids, check the price because there is a price to be paid for whatever you do in life, whether it is good or it is bad. Before you do something, ask yourself is it worth the price you have to pay?

The so called unconscious inferences can be traced back to the all-preserving memory, which presents us with parallel experiences and hence already knows the consequences of an action. It is not anticipation of the effects; rather, it is the feeling: identical causes, identical effects . . .

I think this is the biggest lesson a president or any of us who has responsibility to govern have to learn: There are always consequences to actions that you take. There are consequences to inaction.

President Clinton is willing to except a certain amount of killing to further his political agenda.

It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future.

Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.

Today is the parent of tomorrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future. That is the law of life, individual and social. Revolution that divests itself of ethical values thereby lays the foundation of injustice, deceit, and oppression for the future society. The means used to prepare the future become its cornerstone.

Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

In medicine as well as politics, one cannot permit the cure to be worse than the disease.