Quotes about Consequences
When men no longer fear God, they transgress His laws without hesitation. The fear of consequences is no deterrent when the fear of God is gone.
— AW Tozer
The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
— Aristotle
The marginal cost of doing something 'just this once' always seems to be negligible, but the full cost will typically be much higher. Yet unconsciously, we will naturally employ the marginal-cost doctrine in our personal lives.
— Clayton M. Christensen
The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
— Victor Hugo
When a man does wrong, he should do all the wrong he can; it is madness to stop half-way in crime!
— Victor Hugo
He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.
— Victor Hugo
Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with the one is wounded with the other.
— Victor Hugo
The galleys make the convict what he is; reflect upon that, if you please.
— Victor Hugo
Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
— Victor Hugo
If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
— Victor Hugo
The first betrayal is irreparable. It calls forth a chain reaction of further betrayals, each of which takes us farther and farther away from the point of our original betrayal
— Milan Kundera