Quotes about Consequences
Leaders made mistakes. And those mistakes, amplified by the numbers who followed without questioning, moved inevitably toward great disasters.
- Frank Herbert
There exists a limit to the force even the most powerful may apply without destroying themselves. Judging this limit is the true artistry of government. Misuse of power is the fatal sin. The law cannot be a tool of vengeance, never a hostage, nor a fortification against the martyrs it has created. You cannot threaten any individual and escape the consequences
- Frank Herbert
a man must permit his deeds and his words to agree. When your actions describe a system of evil consequences, you should be judged by those con sequences and not by your explanations.
- Frank Herbert
Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred.
- Frank Herbert
The trouble with some kinds of warfare (and be certain the Tyrant knew this, because it is implicit in his lesson) is that they destroy all moral decency in susceptible types. Warfare of these kinds will dump the destroyed survivors back into an innocent population that is incapable of even imagining what such returned soldiers might do. -Teachings of the Golden Path, Bene Gesserit Archives
- Frank Herbert
No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero.
- Frank Herbert
You had to pick and choose, discreetly animating the past. And was that not the purpose of consciousness, the very essence of being alive? Select from the past and match it against the present: Learn consequences.
- Frank Herbert
You cannot go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those who come after. The physical qualities of a planet are written into its economic and political record.
- Frank Herbert
The young generally are incapable of making hard decisions unless those decisions are associated with immediate violence and the consequent sharp flow of adrenalin
- Frank Herbert
The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.
- Charles Swindoll
When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.
- Frederick Douglass
We are not punished for our sins, but by them.
- Elbert Hubbard