Unintended Results Quotes

The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.

Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor.

Be careful what you wish for. There's always a catch.

Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.

Actions can have unintended adverse consequences.

Every problem solved is a problem made.

With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.

Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.

The law of unintended consequences is the only real law of history.

Technology is always a two-edged sword. It will bring in many benefits, but also many disasters.

Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.

Pragmatism is not always a good thing. Experience is not always a good thing.

Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.

Careful what you hunt, lest you catch it.

A fool throws a stone into a well, and it requires a hundred wise men to get it out again.

Some of the worst wrongs, were caused by people who tried to change things.

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

We were sowing the seeds of our own failure by this growing rage. We have no idea how Afghans resented that.

Half of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good.

Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.

War has all the characteristics of socialism most conservatives hate: Centralized power, state planning, false rationalism, restricted liberties, foolish optimism about intended results, and blindness to unintended secondary results.

I'm a victim of maybe circumstances, but look at how it worked out.

Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.

Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done.

Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.