Quotes about Consequences

And all he could say was that he did not know. He was guilty, therefore, of innocence. Was there anything so loathsome as a willfully innocent man? Hardly. An innocent man is a sin before God. Inhuman and therefore unworthy. No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind, the foul air of his innocence, even if it did wilt rows of angel trumpets and cause them to fall from their vines.

wrong is because it is the taking of a life. When you take someone's life, you also take away their right to liberty and their pursuit of happiness. If you take someone's life, you also take their dream, their future, their family, their career, and their children away from them. All other rights are lost when you take away the right to life.

we can't use someone else's irresponsibility in the past as an excuse for our irresponsibility in the present. If

Generational irresponsibility leads to lifetimes of oppression, addiction, and waste.

Ideas are not intellectuals' toys: ideas have consequences, for good and for ill, in what even intellectuals sometimes call "the real world".

European man has convinced himself that in order to be modern and free, he must be radically secular. That conviction has had crucial, indeed lethal, consequences or European public life and European culture.

The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales.

Misfortunes occur only when a man is false.... Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

So many laws argue so many sins.

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.