Consequences Quotes - page 6

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful. (Margaret Wheatley)
All affected can accept the consequences and the side effects that [the norm's] general observance can be anticipated to have for the satisfaction of everyone's interests, and the consequences are preferred to those of known alternative possibilities for regulation. View quote
Jürgen Habermas
Technically speaking, since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents, they certainly offer ideal opportunities for a prompt disruption of normal activities. These disruptions can, with minimum expense, have considerably destructive consequences. Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems. View quote
Jürgen Habermas
I am, now as before, of the opinion that I did the best that I could do for my nation. I therefore do not regret my conduct and will bear the consequences that result from my conduct. View quote
Sophie Scholl
In the social equation, the value of a single life is nil; in the cosmic equation, it is infinite... Not only communism, but any political movement which implicitly relies on purely utilitarian ethics, must become a victim to the same fatal error. It is a fallacy as naïve as a mathematical teaser, and yet its consequences lead straight to Goya's Disasters, to the reign of the guillotine, the torture chambers of the Inquisition, or the cellars of the Lubianka. View quote
Arthur Koestler
The material which a scientist actually has at his disposal, his laws, his experimental results, his mathematical techniques, his epistemological prejudices, his attitude towards the absurd consequences of the theories which he accepts, is indeterminate in many ways, ambiguous, and never fully separated from the historical background. This material is always contaminated by principles which he does not know and which, if known, would be extremely hard to test. View quote
Paul Karl Feyerabend
The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences. View quote
Winston Churchill
Ironically enough, the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the stress of modern war are psychotics. Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity. View quote
Aldous Huxley
Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning. View quote
Benjamin N. Cardozo
Psychic disturbances are the consequences of the sexual chaos of society. For thousands of years, this chaos has had the function of psychically subjecting man to the prevailing conditions of existence, of internalizing the external mechanization of life. It has served to bring about the psychic anchoring of a mechanized and authoritarian civilization by making man incapable of functioning independently. View quote
Wilhelm Reich
History is not Time; nor is evolution. They are both consequences. Time is a state: the flame in which there lives the salamander of the human soul. (Andrei Tarkovsky)
The change from atoms to bits is irrevocable and unstoppable. Why now? Because the change is also exponential - small differences of yesterday can have suddenly shocking consequences tomorrow. View quote
Nicholas Negroponte
Looking back to data, we can see if the consequences are plausible; looking forward to theory, we can see if general principles are suggested. View quote
John Henry Holland
Technology will move faster than governments, so don't legislate before you understand the consequences... View quote
Eric Schmidt
I doubt not, but from self-evident Propositions, by necessary Consequences, as incontestable as those in Mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out. View quote
John Locke
Every word has consequences. Every silence, too. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
It is quite clear from what has been said and written that, time after time after time, there has been a conspiracy between the Conservative Front Bench in this House and the inbuilt Conservative majority in the House of Lords to defeat legislation that has passed through the House of Commons...I warn the House of Lords of the consequences...it is our strong view that the House of Lords should recall that its role is not that of a wrecking chamber, but of a revising chamber. In recent weeks, it has been wrecking legislation passed by this House. View quote
James Callaghan
We do not want an expanding struggle with consequences, that no one can perceive, nor will we bluster or bully or flaunt our power, but we will not surrender and we will not retreat, for behind our American pledge lies the determination and resources, I believe, of all of the American nation. View quote
Lyndon B. Johnson
A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers, and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality. View quote
John F. Kennedy
One way to define wisdom is the ability to see, into the future, the consequences of your choices in the present. That ability can give you a completely different perspective on what the future might look like. View quote
Andy Andrews
Great tragedies have great consequences. They ripple through the fabric of this world and the next. When the loss is too great for either world to bear, Everlost absorbs the shock, like a cushion between the two. (Neal Shusterman)
To rescue people from the natural consequences of their behavior is to render them powerless. View quote
Henry Cloud
And in situations where a man and a woman each receive negative feedback, the woman's self-confidence and self-esteem drop to a much greater degree. The internalization of failure and the insecurity it breeds hurt future performance, so this pattern has serious long-term consequences. View quote
Sheryl Sandberg
The whole point of life is learning to live with the consequences of the bad decision we've made. View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
We are free to choose our paths, but we can't choose the consequences that come with them. View quote
Sean Covey