Consequences Quotes - page 38

Nigeria is still grappling with the negative consequences of the use of opacity by senior members of government and their cronies between 1993 and 1998, awarding themselves juicy contracts in the extractive industry. (Yemi Osinbajo)
No economy can tolerate the level of corruption seen in Nigeria without consequences. View quote
Yemi Osinbajo
The art of politics is to separate actions from consequences. View quote
Alexander Cockburn
Hayek was in many respects a philosophical idealist, in that he believed that ideas rule the world. It was the idea of constructivism, he thought, that has such destructive consequences. If he could combat this idea, then much good would result. View quote
Alan O. Ebenstein
I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent. View quote
Steve Jobs
Every social state supposes... a certain number and a certain order of crimes, these being merely the necessary consequences of its organisation. This observation. View quote
Adolphe Quetelet
Here's the teaching point, if you're teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough questions, and it doesn't absolve them of having curiosity about the consequences of their actions. View quote
George Tenet
The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond which Central African crops couldn't grow - with enormous consequences for the recent history of South Africa. View quote
Jared Diamond
So enormous, so dreadful, so irremediable did the [slave] trade's wickedness appear that my own mind was completely made up for abolition. Let the consequences be what they would: I from this time determined that I would never rest until I had effected its abolition. View quote
William Wilberforce
When we think of eternity, and of the future consequences of all human conduct, what is there in this life that should make any man contradict the dictates of his conscience, the principles of justice, the laws of religion, and of God? View quote
William Wilberforce
A great many individuals ever since the rise of the mathematical method, have, each for himself, attacked its direct and indirect consequences. ...I shall call each of these persons a paradoxer, and his system a paradox. (Augustus De Morgan)
When I write, I don't allow the fear of consequences to interfere with the writing process. I have in the past paid for my commitment to the truth and the way I live my life. I am prepared to pay more if I have to. View quote
Taslima Nasrin
All my life they had made choices for me, and I had resented it. Now the choice was mine, and once it was made, I would have no right to blame anyone else for the consequences. Loss of that privilege, to blame others, unexpectedly stung. View quote
Megan Whalen Turner
They tend to be pretty abstract ones then, like doing what will have the best consequences; obviously you wouldn't specify what consequences are best, they may be different in some circumstances, so at a lower, more specific level, you may well get differences. View quote
Peter Singer
To be a utilitarian means that you judge actions as right or wrong in accordance with whether they have good consequences. So you try to do what will have the best consequences for all of those affected. View quote
Peter Singer
We need to recognise that what really matters isn't buying more and more consumer goods, but family, friends, and knowing that we are doing something worthwhile with our lives. Helping to reduce the appalling consequences of world poverty should be part of that reassessment. View quote
Peter Singer
And so Butler made a decision, the consequences of which would haunt his dreams and waking hours for years to come. As a professional bodyguard, he knew the futility of second-guessing his own actions, but in the nights ahead he would often sit by the fire, with his head in his hands, and replay the moment in his mind, wishing that he had acted differently. Whatever way he played it out, the results were tragic, but at least they would not have been tragic for Artemis. View quote
Eoin Colfer
This is precisely the same construction used by many serial killers and heads of state, who use language to separate themselves from the consequences of their actions. View quote
Roger Ebert
It's rare to find a film that goes for broke and says, 'To hell with the consequences.' View quote
Roger Ebert
Behavior is determined by its consequences. View quote
B. F. Skinner
The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again. (B. F. Skinner)
Do not intervene between a person and the consequences of their own behavior. View quote
B. F. Skinner
The older I get, the harder it is to splurge without consequences. I love food. Chocolate and cheese and anything that's bad for me. I'll be really good when I'm at home so I can eat what I want to when I'm out with friends. View quote
Carrie Underwood
The flow of action continually produces consequences which are unintended by actors, and these unintended consequences also may form unacknowledged conditions of actions in a feedback fashion. Human history is created by intentional activities but is not an intended project; it persistently eludes efforts to bring it under conscious direction. View quote
Anthony Giddens
The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself. View quote
John Kerry