Quotes about Consequence
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Science was born as a result and consequence of philosophy; it cannot survive without a philosophical base. If philosophy perishes, science will be next to go.
- Ayn Rand
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
- Ayn Rand
I'm sorry I ever invented the Electoral College.
- Al Gore
If you board the wrong train it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Power is an instrument of fatal consequence. It is confined no more readily than quicksilver, and escapes good intentions as easily as air flows through mesh.
- Mike Pence
Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
- Henri de Lubac
I'll tell you the truth and its up to you to live with it.
- William Goldman
I am going to do what I think is best for the country, within my jurisdiction and power, and then let the rest take care of itself.
- William Howard Taft
When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.
- William James
We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar…. Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out.
- William James
The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioning our characters in the wrong way.
- William James